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Originally Posted by The Saint
There was a huge crowd at mid-Ohio for the IRL race, but let us not forget that Honda have a big car plant in Ohio, and it has been suggested that Honda gave away a lot of free tickets.
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Definitely true. Honda actually has multiple facilities in the Mid Ohio area - Marysville (motorcycles and cars), Anna (engines), Russells Point (transmissions) and East Liberty (cars). They made, from all accounts, 22,000 tickets available to employees and family (up to four per family).
That might be 35-40% of the attendance, which I'm sure is going to push 50k for the Saturday and 60k for the Sunday.
I hope the folks at Alliston get a similar incentive given to them to attend Mosport for the ALMS! Not that Mosport needs the help, though.