 The circuit was popular with drivers and often produced an entertaining race.For most of its fifteen years, the Vancouver Indy attracted in excess of 100,000 spectators over the course of its weekends, and in 1996 held the Canadian single-day sporting event attendance record until it was beaten by the Formula 1 Canadian Grand Prix in Montreal that year.The final event in 2004 had race day attendance of 63,000 with a total three day turnout of 158,420 spectators.