On 2024-01-27 00:53, Martin Harran wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jan 2024 10:48:46 -0800, Alan <nuh-uh@nope.com> wrote:
On 2024-01-26 10:31, Martin Harran wrote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/20/style/vegas-grand-prix-formula-1.html >>> <quote>
"I've never seen Las Vegas like this," Ben Affleck said of a city so
packed for a Formula 1 race that even celebrities were calling in
favor
…
More than 300,000 people attended, and Formula 1 estimated that the
event would have an economic impact of $1.2 billion to Las Vegas.
</quote>
I guess those 300,00 and the celebrities didn't get Alan Baker's memo
about nothing exciting when the WDC was already decided :)
I'm sorry, but I never said that.
"Folks, this is obvious:
With lots of time to see that they would be watching a race won by
Verstappen AFTER he's won the WDC...
...in a town where he people who are likely to want to go there, are predisposed to want to gamble on outcomes...
...of COURSE demand is going to fall in the face of those facts."
And can you show that demand didn't fall?
And where did I say there was "NOTHING exciting"?
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