Why is assen on saturday

Skip to main content. Anonymous Register Log In. Languages English Bahasa Indonesia. Peter McLaren. Follow Crash. Latest Articles. F1 drivers split on whether sprint will be a success in Brazil. Will McLaren or Ferrari cope better with F1 role-reversal? More Related Articles. Pol Espargaro: Huge shaking on the straights, pumping, spin. In the absence of a dedicated circuit, public traffic needed to be restricted on the roads where the race motorcycles would pass.

However, due to the proximity of the racing route and the local church, closing the roads would have meant that people who wanted to attend the Sunday sermon could not make it there. So the organizers thought to have the bike racing on the streets of Rolde on Saturday A successful event made the organizers stick with the format, and this became a tradition for the Dutch race. However, motorcycle racing is a part of Assen's history since , with only six years of interruption between and because of WWII.

Sunday races draw more people Now, moving the race from Saturday to Sunday has purely economic reasons, in case you wonder. The organizers found out that sporting events that take place on a Sunday draw larger crowds, so the move was a fairly simple one.

The "Saturday race" particularity was a symbolic one, with no productive potential, so the change was not that hard to make. In the current Dutch leisure pattern a top sporting event on a Sunday is more attractive than on a Saturday.

On Sundays there is also more media exposure for these top sporting events, which is something the TT Assen will definitely benefit from. Download your apps.

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