Two or three MotoGP rounds in the USA

Now that is an attractive demographic to capture! I'm sure Walmart will have to stock up big time! Monterey, Big Sur, and the CA coast can suck it!

Crossville vs. Monterey:

 

But you’re currently talking about a shanty town. Motels? Like hotel 4s where meth is in the pepsi machine?

where’s the logistics points? Where do the 747s full of equipment fly into? What’s the trucking time from the airport to the track? Where do they draw the workers from that know what they are doing? How many international events have they run?

Just stop. Build the track and then the infrastructure and then try and get world monkey fucking tournament and then, after try and get an actual event that’ll be shown world wide.

but!!!! A buckeeees is a great start. Love that place.

 

Most of it on I-81 in VA

 

Probably not, but...: https://www.driveascent.com/

 

Nashville, about two hours away. I'm sure DHL can manage that just fine.

Ownership was rubbing elbows at COTA during F1. They've probably learned a thing or two and made some connections.

 

I had this same thought. Guess we have to wait and see how that track is once it’s done.

 

There's quite a bit of talk around the Nascar garage about checking out some MotoGP racing now that one of their teams is connected. So hopefully the viewership in the US grows. It's hard to believe that Indy only had 30k people there at the last race, and with 20 million people living within 3 hours of there.

 

Kinda explains America's lack of interest in any motorcycle roadracing don't ya think? And the struggles of Motoamerica too?

 

As long as logistics has been brought up.
SLC airport to Utah Motorspors Complex.
Mor hotels than you can shake your magic underwear at.

 

Sean (amongst others) spoke about Utah and what was missing.
I’d look for it but I don’t want to and I’m sure mean mister Mongo can post it all up again.

The last year for Indy was 2015, yes?

 

Only 30K? I was there and I'd have thought it was quite a bit more than that.

 

The problem is that even at 30k, at indy, that looks empty. The place is massive And has seating for most.

 

According to Dorna it was 145k for the weekend in 2015. https://www.roadracingworld.com/news/attendance-up-for-2015-red-bull-indianapolis-gp/

Can't the facility accommodate up to 400k?

 

That is 3 day attendance. Did you read the article?

 

Yes, did you read what I posted?
And the article doesn't say anything about 30k people.

 

92k on race day when I did the marketing

it was simply hubris and poor management by the track… attendance dropped significantly every year… the town still had huge turn out… Penske is different than George so I’d think it’d go differently if they do it again…

 

Apparently not.

My bad.

 

Top 10 attendance for 2015 Motogp.....Indy was 10 th out of 18 and more than Assen, Mugello, Phillip Island, COTA, Argentina, Aragon, Motegi, Qatar

https://www.crash.net/motogp/feature/226049/1/top-ten-most-popular-motogp-races



I thought it came down to Indy not wanting to pay the big $$$ that Dorna wanted? Maybe the attendance numbers didn't add up for Indy to continue with the series.

 

Add it up… $100 per person was the net value assigned and used for calculations 15 years ago…