Thanks for that. Thankfully, there are many different viewpoints and the Festival committee is probably well aware of most of them.

We'll never get a total consensus but NZ motorsport is probably strongest in the Classic & Historic arena and particularly strong when the overseas cars and drivers boost the quality and the numbers.

There is still plenty of scope for expanding the festival over the rest of the site over the years to come but they proved this time, that whilst F1 may not be everyone's cup of tea, there is no doubt whatever that seeing/hearing F1 cars on the track is a huge drawcard.

Ironically, with only one or two cars on the track at a time for their demo runs, you could appreciate the noise.

I'm not sure that even a Porsche 917 would have the same appeal to the general public.