Spent Saturday aty Brands and was fortunate to get in to watch the procedings from Race Control in the tower (my chum runs the recovery operations there) A totally different way to watch, particularly with access to the 14 cameras covering the whole circuit.
Everyoine there said how successful the A1 event was. I know it doesn't compare to the US (and neither does our population) but they ahd 85,000 at Brands last weekend for the A1 Grand Prix. (56,000 of which were advanced sales)
One thing that I do like about it was that people could still turn up and buiy a ticket at the gate, rather trhan the rip off overpriced advanced sales only setup for Ecclestones Grand Pricks.