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I went along on saturday and had a really good time - my one year old son's first ever race meeting! The stuff dreams have been made of for the past two years.
The point I want to make is, I was rather suprised that I was charged £15 for entry - rather steep for an unpromoted (in advertising terms) club event. I enjoy the atmosphere at historic meetings better than any others, but wondered if I would have set off if I had known it would be so much. I appreciate that many of the spectators (of who there were very few) will not have payed at all and will have been on freebies, and that the circuit has to make money somehow. But do the clubs involved/circuit promoters wish to attract spectators to these types of events of are they ambivolent about the matter?
The following day I went to a Superleague Rugby match, £15 entry and watched a non-contest for all of 80 minutes. Does this make Donington good value? I can't decide. How much should it cost to spectate at these types of event.
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