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Originally Posted by M5Rick
With silly money being banded about and moves predicted with drivers and team support staff traditional fans are being priced out of attending F1 and being replaced by different kinds of younger well off followers who ignore they are getting a raw deal with ticket prices e.g. for BGP apparently going up nearly two fold or even more since the last race.
https://www.planetf1.com/features/f1...handise-prices |
Interesting dynamics happening. I think the growing US fanbase is contributing to it, guilty as charged. Two of the three US races are prohibitively expensive to attend, and the US has a huge population for just 3 races. People in my F1 friend group have traveled overseas to multiple races - Baku, Singapore, British, and Japanese, and are planning on going to Mexico, but only attended one US race, the Austin GP. I think there's plans for one guy to go to the Vegas GP this year as a gift, but nobody else is going. It's cheaper to fly to these overseas destinations than it is to go to the US races. Until they solve that problem by either adding more US races, or somehow finding a way to reduce demand so that prices for the US races aren't outrageous, the price hikes are going to continue spilling over to other countries.
It's a good problem for F1 to have, a bad problem for long time fans.