Jack Miller: They need to stop charging fans so much
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A strong 77,921 fans lined the hillsides and grandstands on Sunday with a weekend spectator total of 135,670, compared to respective figures of just 43,661 (Sunday) and 74,078 (weekend) last year.Although still short of the glory days with Valentino Rossi, when the race day crowd peaked at 100,000 and 152,443 for the weekend in 2016, it was an impressive turnaround.But Jack Miller believes the circuit would be able to rival the 116.692 race day crowd seen at the previous Le Mans round if ticket prices were lower.Can Brad Binder WIN the 2023 MotoGP World Championship?Video of Can Brad Binder WIN the 2023 MotoGP World Championship?“It was better, but for sure they need to stop charging these punters so much to come in and watch,” Miller said.“We want to attract new people so you’ve got to make it reasonable and also you don’t want to piss off the diehard fans. Because without them, we’ve got nobody.“It was better today for sure. But I think if they made the ticket [prices] like they were in Le Mans we would have had a bigger crowd here than we had in Le Mans.”E
Tickets for Mugello were reported to be almost double the price of the Le Mans round, which boasted a record of 278,805 for the weekend.Other factors such as free parking were also hailed as helping encourage the huge French crowd.Related Bezzecchi: What went wrong on Sunday? Brad Binder: 227.5mph? I haven’t hit the limiter yet!Unlike France, Italy hosts two MotoGP rounds, the September event titled as the San Marino round at Misano.But Italy also has a home reigning world champion in Francesco Bagnaia, the top two riders in the current standings (Bagnaia and Marco Bezzecchi) plus two local manufacturers in Ducati and Aprilia.”Ducati won the championship last year. Pecco won the championship last year. He’s a quite iconic rider. They’ve got a lot of Italians doing well. But clearly they’re charging these people too much money. 200 bucks for general admission is f**king ridiculous,” Miller had said earlier in the weekend, after a crowd of just 18,403 turned up on Friday.”That’s how it should be,” he added, when told Le Mans was 90 euros. “No one can afford that in this day and age. Even on a good wage. Average family, try and bring 3 kids, 200 bucks a pop, you’re dreaming.”Bagnaia won both Mugello races, with Bezzecchi joining him on the Saturday podium as runner-up in the new-for-2023 Sprint.
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