Donington attracted 30,000 over the whole weekend and only 15,000 on race day. 

http://www.paddockchatter.com/2015/05/wsbk-donington-sykes-smashes-records.html

So what's changed since the mid 90s or early oughties?

- Dumpster surfing, open pipe backfires, acid house, burning transit vans in the camp ground
- Jamie Witham's band
- Cheap beer and strippers in the hangers on Sat night
- Fogarty, Slight, Russell, Edwards, Hodgson, Chili, Bayliss, Walker, Reynolds, Casoli, Corser, Kocinski, etc etc, etc
- Dunlop bridge
- The infield spectator areas
- Crowd invasions
- Cheap entry prices
- No speed camera vans on the Melton Mowbray road
- The Fireblade and SRAD were new.
 
Times have changed, eh? Could they ever come back?