Probably not a bad thing in my view, GP2 is far better, or formula BMW, or any other of the numerous series which are not stuck so far up their own arses that the regular man on the street can't get within 500 yards of their godly souls in the paddock for fear of intimidating the air that they breath, or some such nonsense.
We were on the inner paddock all weekend, and the great machine that is F1 is quite incredible - does nothing for the local economy as its all trucked in from Europe (staff included), not accessible by anyone other than those who are microchipped, we did get in the pits for our race as they were packing up, most of the F1 mechanics did stick around and watch our race which was nice, and did seem interested.....Not sure we'll go again - even if we're the support race again...
Weather was shite frankly!
the odd gently "hurry up" nudge and door scraping adds to the excitement in BTCC & V8Supercars for me, BTCC has gone abit OTT with it granted but purely from a spectators viewpoint it does add something cool into the sport.