TwoMinuteWarning Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 All the official FIM attendance figures for every Grand Prix can be found at http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/extra9.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted November 22, 2010 Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 All the official FIM attendance figures for every Grand Prix can be found at http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/extra9.htm A very useful summary! I think some of the recorded attendances are suspiciously rounded though, so I think need to be taken with a pinch of salt. Would be understandable if they represented a capacity figure, but clearly they don't in most cases. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TwoMinuteWarning Posted November 22, 2010 Author Report Share Posted November 22, 2010 A very useful summary! I think some of the recorded attendances are suspiciously rounded though, so I think need to be taken with a pinch of salt. Would be understandable if they represented a capacity figure, but clearly they don't in most cases. Agree. For Cardiff this year, 3 different sources reported the crowd as being 44,150. By November it's become 45,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BongoBrian Posted December 2, 2010 Report Share Posted December 2, 2010 All the official FIM attendance figures for every Grand Prix can be found at http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/extra9.htm Many of these figures are inaccurate. I was at two of these events (Cardiff and Bydgoszcz). The figure for Cardiff is an approximation (ie 45,000) The figure for Bydgoszcz is completely wrong. Without the temporary seating, the stadium holds 17,000. there was another 3,636 temporary seats added From GP Site That takes it to well over 20,000. However, as anyone will tell you, the stadium was completely over sold. Folk were standing on my seat and in the isles without a seat, the bars were permanently packed throughout the meeting and there were tons of folk piled up at the back of the stands with no seat. Estimates range from 25,000 to as high as 30,000 in the stadium. My own guestimate would be 27,000, maybe 27,500... but like I said, anyone who was there will testify to there being far more than 20,000. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Humphrey Appleby Posted December 4, 2010 Report Share Posted December 4, 2010 The figure for Cardiff is an approximation (ie 45,000) The Cardiff figures have always stuck me as exaggerated. I haven't been for some years, but the times I did go, I didn't think the attendance was anywhere near what was reported. I don't know why the figures have to be an approximation. In this day-and-age of health and safety, surely the stadium authorities know how many people have come through the turnstiles? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lucifer sam Posted December 5, 2010 Report Share Posted December 5, 2010 All the official FIM attendance figures for every Grand Prix can be found at http://www.internationalspeedway.co.uk/extra9.htm Glad to see Charles McKay's records have found a good home. The story behind the GP attendances is rather amusing - Charles knew more about them than the FIM. All the best Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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