Former World Champion Wayne Gardner likes to keep in touch with the MotoGP racing scene and does it on his website Wayne Gardner Approved writing up his thoughts and opinions on the races.
The Wollongong Whiz after the Assen race, joining in with the general fan consensus that the race was dull, if not downright boring, does it by first writing about the Assen circuit.
Assen, which was once known as the University of motorcycle racing (the older riders now call it high school) before all the track modifications calling it a “pale, soulless version of its former self” going on to say that the less than 100,000 crowd ( a little more that 97,000 were the numbers given) that turned out at the weekend, pales in comparison to the 200,000 spectators that used to turn out during his times.