The Losail Circuit Sports Club (LCSC) is pleased to announce that the 2017 season has witnessed a considerable increase of circuit activities and attendance compared to 2016.
“The club was established two years ago and we have been able to use the facility the best way possible and the number of activities has increased up to reach 301 activities in 212 days of occupancy,” said LCSC president Saud al-Attiyah.
Talking numbers, al-Attiyah said, “We have to take into consideration that the track had been closed for 126 days for maintenance works requested by the FIM. This means that we reached 89 percent of track occupancy. If we compare the figures from last year, we increased the number of activities held at Losail by 36 percent and the track occupancy has increased by 19%.
“One of our main goals is to have more community engagement and increase the motorsport involvement in our youth. It is important to highlight, that the facility has been open to all people at any time and the important participation of Qataris in all the activities. In 2016 a total of 78,958 people attended our events and in 2017 we had an attendance of 99,036 people, which means a 25 percent attendance increase.”
LCSC vice-president and general manager Khalid al-Remaihi said that one of the key objectives has been to promote motorsport in the region and engage the local community to participate actively in all our activities.
“A total of 38 percent of our attendance are Qataris and we have increased the attendance at international events from 56,310 to 69,872 spectators,” al-Remaihi said.
“We are excited about making our infrastructure even safer and more comfortable for all the participants. During 2017, we already started the track works to get a proper drainage system on the track in order to avoid the problems we faced last MotoGP with the heavy rain.
“From the beginning, one of the main objectives of LCSC was to engage more people to our events and promote motorsport in our facility and increase the club’s profits. In 2017, we increased our income by 25 percent compared to 2016 and we have reduced our expenses by 8 percent.”
LCSC CEO Juan Baquero added: “We have seen more engagement with people and an increase in attendance to our events by 25 percent and all of these we did while simultaneously increasing our revenue and reducing our expenses. So the overall results for 2017 are very positive.”
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