""The Guardian"s Richard Polkey wrote the spectators were "entitled to feel let down" after fuel economy created a processional event, "It was hardly the way to help spread the gospel of Cart – Championship Auto Racing Teams – around the globe, which was the reason they were here – and at Rockingham in the past two years".The correspondent for "The Times" said, "It was never the pulsating spectacle the pre-race propaganda had promised", and argued that utilising the Grand Prix layout was in the public interest.