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In 2016 the crowd at the Austrian Grand Prix was very much down, particularly in comparison with the MotoGP race that came a few weeks later, but last weekend it was back up again - by 58%, according to the organisers - and a sizeable chunk came from Holland.
Entire grandstands were orange, as many as 12,000 people making the schlep to Spielberg in support of Max Verstappen.
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