I wonder if part of the problem is public safety? The competitors, officials and people who've paid to get in are warned of the dangers and covered by the motor club's liability insurance, but the people watching from elsewhere, who haven't paid to get in, aren't covered.
In previous years, when my dad has marshalled down there, he's had to move people off the beach side of the road who've somehow got into the restricted area because they'd be right in the line of fire if something went wrong. I know of officials involved in Motocross who've had injured parties try to claim against them personally - no organiser wants to lost their house because some idiot stood in the wrong place and got hurt!
Unfortunately it seems there's too much at stake these days for anybody involved in historic (but slightly less than perfect from a H&S point of view) events!
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