MOTOGP » You mark MotoGP 5.6 out of 10 for entertainment

13 December 2012
French MotoGP voted most entertaining race of 2012
You mark MotoGP 5.6 out of 10 for entertainment
Crash.net viewers gave MotoGP an average score of 5.6 out of 10 for entertainment during the 2012 season.

Polls were set-up after the races, asking viewers to: "Tell us exactly how entertaining you, the watching fans, thought it was by awarding a mark out of 10."

A score of 1 meant a 'dull' race and 10 'fantastic'.

The most entertaining grand prix was deemed to be the wet French Grand Prix at Le Mans (pictured), no doubt helped by the late battle for second between Valentino Rossi and Casey Stoner, which scored an average of 8.4 out of 10.

The next best was the Czech Republic Grand Prix at Brno, which produced a last turn victory showdown between title rivals Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa, and an average vote of 7.5.

Voted the most tedious was the Indianapolis Grand Prix, which saw a ten-second victory for Pedrosa after an early engine failure for home star Ben Spies. The average score awarded was 3.0 out of 10.

Next dullest was the Portuguese Grand Prix at Estoril, where Stoner took a near lights-to-flag victory and which received a score of 4.0.

How significant is the entertainment factor in motorsport? Here are the recent words of F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone:

"We have to understand that we are in the entertainment business and this year [in F1] we have entertained. All sports today are show business and it gets dangerous for a sport if people start to forget that."

Tagged as: Brno , Casey Stoner , Dani Pedrosa , Valentino Rossi , Jorge Lorenzo , Indianapolis , Ben Spies , Estoril
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Ian S - Unregistered

December 13, 2012 4:59 AM

That's a pretty low number for the pinnacle of our sport. I wonder what the numbers would have been for Moto 2 and Moto 3, both of which were much more entertaining IMO. My favourite series of the year had to be BSB.


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