It's not a silly argument at all. It's lost the sport the German GP this year because they can't cover the costs of the FOM fees with tickets.
I went to the French GP in '03. Cost me less to fly from Scotland to France, kip on my mates couch and get a ticket with a grandstand seat, than to get a general entrance ticket to Silverstone for the same year. Someone was picking up the tab with FOM so the circuit could sell sensibly priced tickets.
As for the rest of your wall of text, I ain't got the inclination to read it.
Good for you, you didn't want to read what I said but also couldn't understand something basic and ignored what I said.
The ticket prices did NOT lose F1 the German GP this year. The fee Bernie wanted did, and the GP's bad management AND that wasn't the argument I made.
If people would be willing to pay £200 a ticket, then the track won't charge less than £200 a ticket. You're entirely not understanding the issue.
If people are buying £200 tickets and they are selling enough to make £10mil, but Bernie wants £5mil to go there and the rest of the costs for staff, policing, other works will cost 5mil then they find little incentive to put the race on. If you remove the £5mil F1 fee they stand to make a £5mil profit and they want to throw the race.... where do ticket prices drop? If Bernie removed his fee then they already know they can make a £5mil profit, they will NOT drop prices, they will just make more profit.
Dropping the F1 fee, lowering it, removing it entirely, actively paying the track instead... none of that effects the ticket pricing. Number of people vs price they will pay vs max income is what dictates ticket price and is ENTIRELY independent of anything else. The track will decide price on the basis of for instance, they think 30k people will come at £200, 50k people will come at £100, 10k people will come at £300... £200 becomes the most profitable price. Every race could stuff a million people around the track if they charge £5... it's just not feasible. No event is looking for the maximum number of people to watch, they are looking for the maximum income, nothing more or less. As is Bernie with TV, he couldn't care less of a billion or a million people watch, if a million people brings in more money it's better for the sport.
Ticket prices for EVERY sport are expensive. It costs me £5 to get to Arsenal but £60 for a ticket. There is one German GP, there are thousands of flights, buses, trains, cars to get to Germany. Comparing travel prices to ticket prices for events is completely pointless, one isn't related to another.
