Despite being the home circuit for the great Italian contingent of ‘romagnuoli’ drivers, either by birth or by residence in Emilia-Romagna, the Misano World Circuit Marco Simoncelli posted its worst innings since 2014 for his GP of San Marino and Rimini Riviera. On Friday 18,859 spectators attended, on Saturday 25,300 and this Sunday 56,981 spectators for a total of 101,140.
The departure of Valentino Rossi took the Brutapela tifossi, the grandstand filled with the ’46 Fan Club, which, in addition to the GT World Challenge Europe calendar, is at Hockenheim this weekend and is not expected to act as a MotoGP ambassador. But it’s not just the absence of Rossi or Marc Márquez who this weekend was in civilian clothes. In Misano the organizers made the same mistake as in Mugello: put an abusive price, andBetween €282.50 and €380 in the entry-level grandstand to €157-192 for the cheapest, Grandstand D.
Neither Ducati nor Aprilia are the animating factories of the current championship, or Pecco Bagnaia is in counterattack mode and already stalking the leadership of Fabio Quartararo, or Andrea Dovizioso’s last race has been enough incentive to scratch such a pocket and less of that crisis. which is falling (its IPC shot up to +8.4%).
That the impact of Valentino Rossi was not too decisive testifies that in 2014 by 54,543 spectators on Sunday out of a total of 88,665 was a GP in which ‘The Doctor’ made history in front of his fans by winning the race , victory 107 of his career and after five years without climbing to the top of the podium on the Italian track.
Regarding the pre-pandemic 2019 in Misano, they lost almost 40,000 spectators on Sunday, the same as in Mugello in May, the other GP on Italian soil.
Too many viewers lost
At the general level in MotoGP this 2022, spectators have only been obtained compared to Argentina pre-pandemic (almost 3,000), Le Mans (about 6,000), Sachsenring (about 4,000) and Red Bull Ring (about 4,500). The rest either stopped the blow like Assen (they lost less than 1,000) or they were major bleeding in all appointments in southern Europe and in Great Britain, apart from Qatar (Austin does not provide any data ). The new Indonesian market recorded 62,923 Sunday and 102,801 weekend for its first GP since 1997.
Source: La Verdad
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