The 2026 Formula E schedule, or ‘Season 12’ in FE parlance, has been added to the calendars.
Here is a brief look at the changes since last year.
The season started at the end of last year, which is something FE used to do. This was the same date as the Formula 1 season finale which happened to come down to a title decider. It’s not the smartest move. I don’t remember anybody talking about anything other than F1, it was obviously going to take up all the airtime.
This weekend it is the turn of Mexico City on the short version of the layout but with the full Peraltada, the cars having more power than grip means the back end steps out around there, which is very cool.
The Miami round has been moved from Homestead-Miami Speedway to the F1 circuit, the Miami Autodrome. I think this is a good change. I’ve not seen the Homestead round yet but I’m told it wasn’t a good look, even if the racing itself was perfectly fine. Miami Autodrome feels like a better fit.
We have another road course round in March, with the Circuito del Jarama near Madrid joining. Test days have been held there already for Gen3. I’ve only ever seen one race there but the only thing I’ve heard about Jarama is it’s impossible to overtake there. Perhaps a slipstreaming, peloton-style Formula E race will be different.
With the Gen4 car looking to be another step up in pace, I feel like it is inevitable we’ll see a swing towards road courses and F1-grade “street” tracks like Miami.
A return to Sanya in China is also on the cards, followed by two races at Shanghai International. Sanya was used once before, in 2019, and I wonder if we’ll see the same layout this time? It was a very dramatic race ! A lot of contact. Some of these tight turns may need some work.
Highlights of the 2019 Sanya ePrix
There has been some reshuffling among the other races.
Shanghai and Tokyo move from May to July. Berlin goes the other way.
London moves later, to mid-August, which is a really good date as season finale. Being in the middle of the F1 summer break it has a better chance of some traction. It is also in the middle of the school holidays in Britain and hopefully this will attract families to the races! This weekend makes a lot of sense to me.
Jakarta is the only round we lose from last year, so we have a net gain of one race for a total of 17.
At the beginning of 2024 I started to log all the races I watched. Now with two years of data I wanted to see what the numbers look like. Spotify Wrapped has a lot to answer for.
I wish I’d started doing this years ago. I’d love to know how the numbers compare to 2008 through to the early 2010s. I started this blog in ’08 and I watched a heck of a lot of races in those years. I used to post weekly reviews of what I was watching at the time, but never collated it.
There are people I follow online who watch more than me, and who should take the title of ‘I Watch Too Much Racing’. Shout out to Matt White, who inspired me to start tracking, as he posts all his races to socials – and got over 750 in ’25!
In a few days I will share the best races I saw in those two years. 2024 & 2025.
[Editors note: Calendars are bubbling away in the background, I’ll focus on those fully after I’ve done these.]
Races
In 2024 (blue) I had a big push in the spring but then felt burned out. It almost felt a chore to keep up and I kept things to a bare minimum, just F1 and IndyCar, with a couple of IMSA races to round out December.
2025 (orange) was the opposite. I never got started until February, then in the spring we had bad news in the family, obviously I placed my attention there rather than watch anything. When I decided to start up again I caught up all the F1 and IndyCar and also picked up my project to watch the 2024 BTCC.
That meant I caught up fast, so by August it became the game to try to beat 2024’s total by December. I made it by just two: 134 to 132
I actually felt better about it as well, not so burned out. I was still sick of F1 by the end of November, even with a brilliant title fight to enjoy.
Hours
Note: I count this by approximating the green flag to chequered flag time. I don’t include practice, qualifying, pre-race or post-race.
The gap of 20 hours in January was never closed down, and by the end of the year it was a gap of 33 hours. 133.4 hours versus 166.7 hours.
How to explain this? Simply the choice of racing. Last year I included sportscar racing. I just couldn’t find the time this year and that shows in the stats.
A lot of 30-minute BTCC and 20-minute support races on the excellent ITV4 coverage, racks up a lot of races in about 4 hours. A single endurance race doesn’t really move the race counter but it can add 12 or 24 hours.
Series
With apologies for those using screen readers, I can’t see an easy way to paste an Excel table here so I’ve used an image, and it’s difficult to express that in alt text.
Races:
F1 dominated with 30 races per year.
One big change in recent times is F1 growing to be all-consuming. We’re now expected to watch 30 races per year including the Sprints. A far cry from the days of 16 Grands Prix when I first started.
This creates a time sink. It sucks away a lot of time, energy and oxygen from other series. It is the reason I can’t keep up with MotoGP, Formula E, WEC or IMSA. I think it is deliberate.
I’ve long been an advocate for quality over quantity. I would prefer 17 or 18 quality Grands Prix, and no sprints, in order to allow other series to breathe. However, the body slam of constant F1 has pushed it to new heights, and that in turn appears to be helping other motorsport rather than hinder. I wonder if I’m a minority here.
BTCC is second. Most of the rest of the list are support races for BTCC. I’d like to thank ITV4 once again for bringing these to us. Amazing coverage. I record the 7-hour show and watch all of them. Many only appear at certain venues in the year, so the next track on the BTCC schedule might include a different slate of supports.
You MUST watch every variant of Minis and MINIs. Find them on YouTube. The best.
IndyCar is my other big series. I’ll always watch IndyCar.
Hours:
This is where you really see the effect of endurance races. I only saw three IMSA races in 2024 (part of Daytona 2024 live and a couple of 2019 races) and this was worth nearly 19 hours. I also managed a 4-race Asian Le Mans season and some of Le Mans.
In 2025 I only watched a short IMSA race, being the 2019 Lime Rock 2hr 40min GT-only race, and one ELMS & LMC weekend.
Backlog & 2026
Long-term followers on Twitter & Bluesky will know about my behemoth of a backlog spreadsheet.
My ambition for 2026 is to get caught up with the BTCC’s 2025 season early, and do my best to stay in touch with this season’s rounds much closer to when they actually happened. I want to get trackside again while having some clue what is going on. I highly recommend going to BTCC, I guarantee you’ll not be bored.
The other reason is BTCC is filling up my Sky DVR and I need the space. I also have a lot of MotoGP highlights too. Hence I want to use the rest of this off-season on as much of those as possible, too. [Sidebar: I’ve had an offer of Sky UHD. My older box doesn’t support UHD although my TV does. I would need a replacement box, but that means losing all those recordings.]
All of this means my other project got mothballed: Catching up 5 years of IMSA & WEC so that I can join in with GTP & Hypercar. There just hasn’t been time.
That’s the thing about endurance racing: the races are really long.
Having seen every IMSA race since the American Le Mans Series era, and every WEC race since before WEC existed (the ILMC) – let’s go back to the old Le Mans Series circa 2009 – both up until mid-2019, I’m not interested in skipping past those years and joining in from today. I have to complete the set. Even though I know there are some dire times in WEC from 2019 to 2023. I am motivated to see the end of LMP1 & DPi and the start of LMH/LMDh. I am not giving in.
Of my personal favourite series, as of 1st January 2026, these are my next races:
F1: Up to date; IndyCar: Up to date; BTCC: 2025 Donington Park National; MotoGP: 2024 Lusail; Formula E: 2024 Mexico City; IMSA WSC: 2019 Road America; WEC: 2019 Silverstone; ELMS: 2019 Silverstone;
Never Gonna Happen
If I can’t find time for my favourite series, I’m surely not going to manage the ‘nice to haves’. You could call this the “Never Gonna Happen” list.
GP2/F2: I thought GP2 was great. I stopped about 2012 but I always wanted to go back, carry on from where I left off and run into the F2 era. I don’t even think that’s possible in any legal way. Any idea how I can do this?
IMSA: The one that really bugs me is IMSA Challenge, I still have 5 years under the Conti Tire name, let alone the Michelin Pilot era. Yet I absolutely loved that series back then.
GT3: I feel like I should know what’s going on with all this, particularly the SRO series. In 2023 I watched the 2011 Blancpain GT season and enjoyed it enough to want to catch up some more, it never happened. Blancpain became GTWC Europe, they’ve also expanded to America, Asia, Australia. There’s GT4. And that’s without even talking about DTM, British GT, 24H Series. Is it all worth it? Surely there’s a load of fluff in here?
WTCR: I saw the whole WTCC to the end (yes, including TC1), and the TCR International Series, but when they merged I never touched it. Was that wrong, or right in hindsight? Is the World Tour actually worth bothering with? Nobody ever talks about it, so I assume it isn’t.
NASCAR: I get so frustrated with the deliberate take outs and the whole idea of the playoffs, but it’s an important area of the sport and it’s a complete blind spot for me. I kind of want to go back and explore from the 80s to today, as someone never immersed in it.
WRC: I used to follow it when I could find the free-to-air highlights. Then various Seb’s won everything for years and years and I stopped caring. I have no idea what’s happened for the last decade. I miss it.
For what it’s worth, this is where I got to on the nice-to-haves, a position that hasn’t changed in years. Excluding some live events I dipped into (24h NBR, 12h Bathurst).
GP2/F2: 2013 Sepang; IMSA Challenge: 2014 Laguna Seca; IMSA Proto / VP: 2018 Daytona; SRO IGTC: 2018 Suzuka; SRO GTWC Europe: 2012 Monza (it was still Blancpain GT back then); British GT: 2014 Oulton Park; WTCR / World Tour: 2018 Hungaroring; 24H Series: 2012 Barcelona;
As 2025 draws to a close, something which has struck me this year is the way competitors appear to respect each other more these days.
This is typified by the F1 title battle this year between Lando Norris and Oscar Piastri. It all seems very gentlemanly, may the best man win, but still intense. I don’t know that you can say they are the best of mates, but they seem to get on. Clearly they are both competitive and are driven to beat the other one and anyone else.
Large chunks of the F1 press have been very confused by this. They almost have an expectation that being team-mates it would automatically have the hostility of the Ayrton Senna versus Alain Prost days. Or the knife-edge intensity of Lewis Hamilton and Nico Rosberg in 2016. Or in MotoGP a decade ago when Yamaha had to build a wall in the garage to prevent Valentino Rossi and Jorge Lorenzo from even seeing each other. It’s as if they are disappointed this hasn’t manifested in the Norris/Piastri fight. At least, not yet.
And let’s be clear, I love those battles too. Because I think that’s how *I* would be in that situation – angry and petulant. Wouldn’t you be? And for the media it’s obvious isn’t it? Needle sells copy, generates clicks, gets more views. But should we be disappointed?
I don’t think so. Not when there’s genuine camaraderie and respect, and yes, we do see how pissed off they are when things don’t go their way. It’s only boring when there’s no emotion at all. It’s clearly taking an emotional toll. To be able to fight tooth and nail and come out the other side as equals, I think it shows an emotional maturity and resilience that elevates them above their peers who are unable to show such control.
I just finished watching the 2024 BTCC. Yes, I am a year late, what with the 2025 season wrapping up six weeks ago. But in that fight a year ago, entering the final three races on the last day of the season, Tom Ingram and Jake Hill were tied on points. Ingram was very fast in the dry first race. Hill faster in the two wet races. In the decider, Hill raced his way through to the podium and the championship, Ingram fell away to 6th.
Immediately in parc ferme, the respect really made an impression on me. Ingram went straight to Hill’s Dad and gave him a big hug. This was in the background while their other rival, Ash Sutton who won the race, was talking on live TV to Lou Goodman and was simply gushing with praise about Jake (and Tom for that matter). The sheer level of respect between the three of them, and for Colin Turkington too, proved again that you can race hard, you can fight wheel to wheel for the win, over a tough, intense championship, and still come out of it respecting the other. I loved seeing it.
In the 2000s and 2010s pretty much the only place that it felt like you found a collegiate, yet competitive atmosphere, was IndyCar. Specifically led by the group of guys containing Dario Franchitti, Dan Wheldon, Bryan Herta, Tony Kanaan, who were all team-mates at Andretti for a time, but also across the general IndyCar paddock. It also manifested itself in practical jokes – remember when they wrapped Sage Karam’s new Camaro in pink to become the ‘Karamo’? You definitely had some needle between guys who didn’t like each other – look no further than Paul Tracy and Sebastien Bourdais. But on the whole I got the sense that IndyCar was a place where racing at over 220mph on ovals generated a type of bond and respect between competitors that was not present elsewhere. Certainly not in either Formula 1 or NASCAR at the time.
And yet, that side of IndyCar seems a bit lessened these days. I don’t know if that’s because there aren’t so many superspeedways and mile-and-a-half ovals these days, and more street courses and short ovals where you get your elbows out. Or maybe the Penske ‘cheat’ scandal didn’t help – I don’t think Josef Newgarden is thought of as highly as he was among his peers. Or the legal case surrounding Alex Palou and McLaren. Or maybe just the way culture has split along political lines, particularly in the US – certainly this has affected the fan experience. Or that a certain driver gets all the “woo yeah America” from the TV coverage, but other US drivers get none of that, despite being no less American. That’s got to be noticed by the Kirkwoods of the world, right?
Norris and Piastri both know McLaren hasn’t won a Drivers’ title in a long time and neither wants to be the one to throw that away, especially since the summer break when Max Verstappen has been quicker than the pair of them and all of a sudden it looks possible, if unlikely, that he could snatch it from them. And full credit to him, that’s why Max is such a great champion, and why it hurts that he drove questionably in the past when he has the talent to not need to.
Norris knows what it is to troll around in an uncompetitive McLaren, finishing outside the top 10 in points, he has lived experience of it in a way Piastri hasn’t. And of course the rules change completely next year – what if this is the last chance McLaren gets for a while?
Yes there have been times when each of them have been on the wrong side of a team call. Both have gristled at it. Which shows it matters to them. They aren’t robots, as much as the corporate team-speak may try to hide it. Speaking of which, yes, I do think McLaren have been playing it safe with the ‘Papaya Rules’ when they don’t need to be. My instinct is these are big boys and they can sort it out themselves. However, I also understand *why* McLaren are being like this. They have long memories, they see Max coming up fast, they don’t the fastest car to lose the title.
I genuinely don’t think McLaren are favouring Norris or Piastri. McLaren are trying their best and sometimes they get it wrong. That’s sport. Personally, they are trying too hard and can afford to let it go a little more. The one that grates, and certainly pisses off the Piastri fans, is the Monza swap. Norris had a slow stop which dropped him behind his team-mate, McLaren chose to invert the positions. OK a slow stop isn’t fair on Norris, but slow stops are a part of racing, penalising the guy who had a normal stop doesn’t sit right with me. I hope it turns out not to matter in the end, whichever way it goes.
That said, I’d quite like Norris to win it. He’s really stepped up since the summer break. He’s been known as a bottler in some quarters, not without merit sometimes in his career. Yet since September he’s put that to bed, I think his pass on Piastri at the start in Singapore showed that, as we come to the crunch, he wants it more. People criticised him for it, yet I know for sure those same people would’ve cheered Piastri or Verstappen had it been them making the move. And after Monza it is Piastri who has let his head drop, bottled it in a way. I think he’ll bounce back.
And that’s what ex-racers always say. Tim Harvey said as much in the BTCC coverage: they both want it, of course they do, but it’ll come down to who wants it the most in the moment. Who steps up their game and who falls back. You don’t know who it will be until that moment. Neither do the drivers themselves!
It wouldn’t surprise me if, after this season, Norris vs Piastri develops into something more. It might be a career-long rivarly. Whether that’s a healthy respectful rivalry, or something that deteriorates into dislike and worse, only time will tell.
There are three F1 GP weekends remaining. This season has gone from a dominant, controlled Piastri, to a sensational recovery by Verstappen winning 3 races out of 4, to Norris stamping his authority in Mexico and Brazil. Might it turn again in the last three? Has Piastri realised he’s about to lose it and step it up again? Is Norris, already having faced the reality of losing to Verstappen last year, determined to stop it happening again? And we know Verstappen will do anything at all times, you don’t even need to ask the question.
I hope we see a great fight. That it’s an intense one. That it stays a respectful one. That it doesn’t diminish the intensity. It’s just different. And we should celebrate it just the same.
My sister gave me a voucher for Christmas to drive a classic car. A choice between two. But I kept forgetting about it because, well it’s been quite the difficult time since. But I remembered and finally got around to booking it, at what turned out to be the last opportunity this year at my closest venue. So I dutifully turned up to Upottery Airfield, adjacent to Smeatharpe Stadium short oval, to drive a Cobra. I’ve always wanted to drive Cobra.
Arrive
A stressful journey, heavy rain while I was driving, and a past experience of being a bit scared as a passenger in a fast car on a race track (and on the road…), made my nerves a bit shot. Unfortunately my bad start and feeling of trepidation took another little dive when I saw a forlorn-looking Cobra abandoned by itself, up on jacks.
I signed in at the truck and went down to the cars. There was some uncertainty when I arrived about whether they could get the Cobra going, it seemed unlikely, they would let me know.
A while later I was hovering about nearby and overhead someone else at the desk being told it was definitely out of action – but they could drive something else?
Cars lined up
So I asked too and they offered either to rebook another day, or choose one from a number of cars that day, such as a Porsche 911, a Jaguar F-Type or a Nissan GT-R. I am sure they would’ve been good too. But to me a newish Aston Martin Vantage was the way to go, especially since it was right in front of me, jet black, looking fantastic. They also had McLarens, Ferraris, Lamborghinis, Ariel Atoms, but I imagine these were at a different price tier. You could pay on the day if you fancied a drive or passenger ride in any of the cars.
Disappointed not to get my Cobra, but looking forward to a Vantage, as I’ve wanted one of those as well!
Had to wait some more, they even forgot me in the confusion, my name being crossed off the list in error. But there was a lot going on and I imagine a fair few people to transfer and probably a lot of on-the-day purchases to fit in. It also looked like they were juggling the instructors for the number of cars and customers, it didn’t look easy.
Drive
The driving experience was 5 stars. Josh was my instructor and I’m glad to have booked the extra laps with him driving first, he very calmly and methodically explained the track and the capability of the car.
One of the first things he said was, “this car is a beast“. Meant in the best way which I understood immediately: respect the car. This car is about the engine. Take it easy in the corners and floor it down the straights. Which he did. Wow did it go.
I was expecting a course laid out with cones much like a race school and that’s exactly what it was, on bumpy concrete WW2 runways in the wind at the top of the Blackdown Hills. The bumps were the seams between the concrete slabs. The suspension failure on the old ’60s Cobra was completely understandable. The modern Vantage raised its eyebrows and gave it no more thought. Not saying it was smooth, just that it was more than capable.
The track was cleverly designed to make sure you got a taste of speed but also slow you down with chicanes before the hairpins. No high or medium speed corners. Ideal for a car that suits caution in corners and then all the power you got.
“This car is a beast” – Josh, instructor
When it was my turn to drive I told Josh even though I’d watched motorsport for many years I was nervous as I’d not driven a powerful car before. He put me at ease and really built my confidence. Told me exactly where to brake and where to turn through the chicanes made of cones, and where to feed in the power, where to put the foot down harder.
After a couple of laps he encouraged me to open it up and I even started hooking up the lines, powering out of the chicanes. He was still guiding me to brake very early and I was already thinking I could go later! One thing I knew I was doing was being very cautious through the chicanes. He was saying to brake early and carry the speed, I was braking early and deep and at least a gear too low, until the last lap when I was just getting there.
The positive to this is that I could absolutely floor it when the car was out of the chicane, really enjoy the power of the engine. I even got my foot to the boards. I was so glad I did. Towards the end I wasn’t waiting to get the car lined up, I was feeding in the power through the exit, much more like it.
Oh, to have had more laps!
Me and Josh in the Aston Martin Vantage
Despite the caution I went further than if I’d been on my own, I felt safe to pick it up with his guidance. Even then I never truly scratched the surface of what it could do, I wanted to stay in it to keep getting quicker! The car itself was great too, much easier than I expected, I never felt like it was above me and that was something I was worried about. It was why I didn’t take the Porsche GT3 RS.
I was actually really glad to have had a chance to drive this car, I even think I preferred it to the Cobra I would’ve had.
The Vantage felt incredibly easy to drive. It almost encouraged you to go a bit quicker. It never bit me, I assume that’s because I didn’t have time to push it harder. It’s probably incredibly impractical for the road. I had a great seating position but in that position I couldn’t see the rev counter, I’m not even sure I saw the speedo, I was so focused on the track though I wasn’t looking.
I bought the media package which included onboard video with speed indicator and this tells me I never got much above 80 and I was only 20-30 through the chicanes. It felt faster. It got to that 80 very quickly! The straights were short enough that’s all I got before I had to slow again, but I definitely saw a lot of time on the table in the turns. I wished I had hooked up the chicanes for a faster exit and carry the speed.
Josh scored me 36 out of 40 and I was really pleased with that!
Dad’s Drive
My Dad drove the Aston Martin DB5 which I’d booked just the day before, when I knew he was coming to spectate me. I asked if they had any cancellations and this is what they had! He was late arriving yet the Everyman team kindly facilitated him as long as he signed in ASAP so he could drive straight away, which he did. Having thought he’d lost his slot I was so pleased they fit him in. However he then waited an hour for an instructor as a limited number could drive this car. On asking what’s going on he was offered the choice to switch or wait, he waited and was in the car very quickly after that. Again, hard to complain when we were late in the first place, and they acted immediately on being reminded, but we’d felt a little forgotten in that time.
When he got in, the DB5’s gearbox was a problem and he nor the instructor couldn’t get 4th gear, various buttons were falling off. Again, good instructor, not his fault, it seemed the condition of the car was not good.
Even so, he could tell it was a great car and he was glad to have driven it, a DB5 is so iconic even a slightly broken one is still worth a ago, and he still got it up over 70mph in 3rd.
I almost asked on the day for something extra in return as I didn’t feel he got the £160 of value (that I paid for), but he didn’t want to, he took it on the chin and said he should’ve swapped to something else when offered.
Dad in the Aston Martin DB5
Feedback
My voucher was with Buyagift.com and this led to Everyman Racing. The link between the two wasn’t seamless online, so they called me back and Anil was very helpful. I didn’t know what the voucher got me. It turned out to be the basic drive of 3 miles. Fair enough. I felt a lot of upselling then went on, albeit in a gentle, friendly way, not the hard sell at all. I ended up spending over £100 on what I thought would be a free drive!
Some of this was worth it and I’d recommend to others. Other parts I felt were a bit much and I did come away feeling a bit weird about it.
I really encourage the 6 mile drive to everyone. The 3 mile drive (2 laps at this venue) is not enough to truly enjoy it. It took until my 3rd lap to get really comfortable and into a groove. I think you’d be really disappointed to only get 2 laps, perhaps it suits if you are booking multiple cars. And paying extra again to be driven in the car beforehand was worthwhile, it was only a lap but it meant I knew where to go and knew the capability of the car, something to aim for. Worth £30? Debatable but probably yes.
A bugbear here is I was sold the demo lap in advance for £20, but it turned out to be in a different car. On arrival they asked if I want to pay £10 for it to be the same car I’d be driving, “for only a tenner it’s a bargain”. I felt I’d already bought that and didn’t appreciate being charged again but I paid it. On the phone call I was taken aback by a £40 damage waiver that was additional, if you don’t pay it and you prang the car you are on the hook for £5000. Why is the waiver not included as standard? And annoyingly the voucher was also said to be for a weekday, by the time I called the Friday was fully booked and I couldn’t have got there anyway – so the Saturday was *another* £20 just for being a Saturday. Hence a feeling of being stung a bit.
Also on arrival I paid for the media package. Onboard video with a forward-facing camera and one aimed at me, along with telemetry, and photos. This was fairly high but I’m never driving a Cobra again so I went with it. Would I have got it if I’d booked the Aston? Not sure. Maybe I’d have just got one or the other. At least I have photos for this piece!
Due to delays we both had to ask a couple of times each to find out what was going on. Given the prices paid, the voucher cost plus the extras, I think a much slicker and professional customer experience would be, for example, to have someone locate the Cobra customers and send them to the desk to arrange a swap, rather than leave them waiting and having to ask. A fairly simple thing to solve I’m sure. Was Dad forgotten or where they getting to him? Could they have updated us?
Summary
Positives: – The instructors and the Vantage – the most important bits! – Great car selection available. We didn’t buy extra drives or rides on the day but I like that you can. – Moving me to another car after the Cobra broke. – Fitting Dad into another slot after he arrived late. – The pre-booking with Anil, very friendly and helpful. – We thought the Under 17s section was a brilliant idea and if we knew anyone eligible we’d send them your way. – Everyone on the ground was working hard at difficult times – changeable weather, broken car, no mobile signal, seemed like juggling instructors and cars. Despite our few issues it could’ve got well out of control but they seemed to get through everyone, all the customers seemed happy. All the talk was about the cars as it should be.
Negatives: – On arrival it wasn’t clear you had to go to the truck. – Those out of the blue extra charges which really pushed the budget. – Communication on the day could be better with regard to changing plans. I am sure this is fixable.
When problems were pointed out they fixed them as quickly as they could – it just felt like we were left to tell them, rather than them tell us.
Would I book again: Yes! Now I have a better idea of what to expect on the day, the likelihood of delays, and how the pricing structure works, I would look forward to going again.