According to what some have aid in this thread oval racing is garbage and road racing is many many times better, so shouldn't that mean the crowds should be many times bigger? True, it is more difficult to build seating around a roadcourse, but if they could would they fill up more then what they have now? According to how much better some say road racing is then oval racing you'd think the Nurburgring and Spa could fit 1,000,000 people if they could.
If your watching a car at Eau Rouge you have to wait 2+ minutes to see that same car again. At the same time your visibility of 90% of the track is blocked. People talk so much about the left and right turns of roadcourses yet they dont mention how most of the stands and spectators are situated on a straightaway. However thats not a problem on a oval as laptimes are usually around 30 seconds so your constantly seeing the cars and you have great visibility of most of the track.
I was not arguing against you that ovals are boring - I was simply pointing out that your argument was flawed.
You also miss my main point with that whole seating thing, much of circuit racing is watched from standing, sitting on grass, sitting at the top of hills, sitting on bridges, sitting on old pieces of circuit....on so on (this is also what I was referring to when talking about Silverstone not really having horrible facilities, it has its green grass like everywhere else
). But also you can build thousands of seats at a circuit, doesn't mean its necessarily a popular track. Like I said, Shanghai and Istanbul are the best examples, thousands of seats and no one there, really popular, eh?
Ovals are natural stadiums, but more importantly, I don't think its as easy to stand at the side of the track and watch, its better if you're in tiered seating like that so you can see more.
Its basically just a different style of spectating, both have the strengths and weaknesses, I don't think Oval racing is particularly better just because I can see the whole track.
You want to use ticket sales or, even better, tv ratings if you're going to start arguing popularity. But I really don't see the point, popularity doesn't prove quality and those that think oval racing is rubbish are probably not going to be simply convinced like that.
Ardius:
All I can say is that watching is different from racing...
Yes indeed, but what are we really talking about here? Playing the track in a game or rating it in real life? Because I was always assuming we were arguing the former, not the latter
dave_sz mentioned the facilities being rubbish, which I disagree with considering other circuits, and you appeared to be disliking the real racing action it produces.
Neither of which impact the circuit in a game so much, the racing action though I think is there, I watched the Renault Clio Cup, Formula Renault and BTCC last year on TV and there was plenty. But in any case, the track really comes into its own when you drive it. Becketts and Maggotts is so very much fun in any car on any game. I love the whole layout, it really flows well for me at least.
