ZANDVOORT, Netherlands (AP) — It's the Formula 1 race where cars are banned, at least for spectators.

Organizers of the Dutch Grand Prix pride themselves on requiring almost all of the 110,000 fans expected each day of this race weekend to arrive by public transport or bicycle.

Where other F1 races devote acres of space to spectators' cars — the Miami Grand Prix offers 29 different parking lots around the Hard Rock Stadium — in the Netherlands, they converted a parking lot to fit more bikes.

People from outside the Netherlands “look at you as if you’re crazy” when they hear the race has storage space for 45,000 bikes, Dutch Grand Prix mobility manager Roy Hirs told The Associated Press. “But here they see what we are able to do.”

When the Dutch Grand Prix returned in 2021 after a 3

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