Makes entertaining reading, this thread!
Of course, you don't have to attend at all, let alone in an aeroplane. I may well go but by surface transport and will remember well my first visit to the circuit.
I flew - as a passenger - in a Tiger Moth from Panshanger to the Whit Monday race meeting in '58 or 9. Fantastic value as we went dct and straight across central London except for a circuit round the Crystal Palace TV mast. No landing fee and we were straight in to the paddock and members enclosure.
Those very definitely WERE the days!
rgsaero