[Ramon]

I have visited Dubai and Bahrain on several occasions so I know a fair bit about the motorsport arena out there. They have the most amazing facilities and tracks but locals are very new to motorsport and there is only a very small amount of the population actually follow motorsport at all. It is a completely different motorsport culture to Europe for example. Therefore it is not surprising there weren't many spectators. Also weekends are thursday/friday in many middle eastern countries so if you put a race on a saturday or sunday not many people can turn up. I was out for the GP 2 race in Bahrain, there were probably 2000 people altogether on race day and no one really stands at the side of the track as it is normally to hot.