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Atleast there won't be a class changing lambo or a start before dawn if they race in the US pecky.
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Yes sooooooooooooooooo it is currently unsustainable, along with every single other overseas venture (Pukekohe aside).
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Its unsustainable in its previous form, but there was a never an expectation to hold the race in the previous form, it was always to combine it with another event to help offset transport costs
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It was interesting to hear Triple M's comments on the V8s on Monday evening. They are usually big supporters of the V8Supercars (They've presented shows from the Gold Coast, Homebush and Bathurst in the last few years).
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I think V8s have a massive fan base outside Aus. It's fast, close, usually clean racing which excites in a way that BTCC and DTM don't always manage. Clipsal 500 had my whole family pinned to the TV. |
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The Aussie and NZ members seem to slag on the V8's at nearly any chance they get, yet around the rest of the world, we see it as basically the top of the Touring Car racing. That, and as most of the Americans I know that follow it, you guys also have the best motorsport television coverage in the world with the way the V8's are presented. |
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There is no reason the likes of Mallala or Wakefield Park shouldn't have rounds, and then Eastern Creek is hopping on and off the merry-go-round year on year.
Get those on the calendar permanently and then start chasing this overseas wet dream. |
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My understanding is Wakefield park is in a similar position although i dont know that for sure, have never been there |
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Agree with that, I love it. Proper racing cars, great tracks, great drivers, great racing. Its one of the best series out there at the moment. DTM I feel is a wasted opportunity, V8 Euro Series has never taken hold and the WTCC is a bore fest. The BTCC is getting there and improving year on year and certainly has the fan base but its not in the same league as V8's at this time. Not familiar with TC2000 so can't comment there.
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With Homebush, EC and Bathurst, NSW doesn't need a fourth round of the series either. |
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It is only snobbery and ego's keeping the V8s out of the permanent circuits they currently aren't attending. NSW used to host five national championship touring car events each year and do alright. And now we have V8Supercars publically supporting some new permanent circuit plans.... but where is their public support for upgrading the current permanent circuits that don't currently have a round? |
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It was never intended as a venue for large scale, large crowd events such as the ATCC/V8SC and those 'national level' events are even close to that scale. Equally, you wouldn't take Muscle Car Masters or several other events there because if you got 5000 spectators to that place the joint would be packed out. Not every venue is suitable for V8s and that's not snobbery or ego. You wouldn't hold a State of Origin at a suburban football ground. It's the same thing. Different places have different purposes. Unbelievably, V8s is now talking about offering support for new or existing venues - regardless of whether they are likely to hold a round in the future - essentially helping the rest of the motorsport community and you're bagging them for it. The same people who used to bag them for not doing that sort of stuff. |
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I'm just asking where their support has been for the existing permanent circuits they have happily run away from ever since the 'world was saved' in 1997? |
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I remember well, an interview between Darrell Waltrip & Dale Earhardt Jnr / Tony Stewart when DW got back to America AFTER his trip around Bathurst in a V8Supercar with Jason Bright a couple years ago, and they played that clip to the NASCAR drivers, who said they'd LOVE to experience something like that. Imagine going in to support a Sprint Cup NASCAR Road Race like at the Glen, and involving perhaps NASCAR drivers as co-drivers for an endurance event, to assist in promotion for V8Supercars not just here but in the US - potentially a hugely lucrative market as the traditional 'Home of the V8'. The fans would love it, the NASCAR drivers would also be in it in a flash .... practical logistics aside for the moment, if V8Supercars could tie up an arrangement like that (and with friends like Roger Penske & his possible involvement here with a V8Supercar team potentially in the future) I think it would be a very exciting possibility and a pointer to perhaps future support status for the biggest form of Motorsport in the US. Seriously, if you're going to go overseas, and if it were possible, you might as well tie in with the biggest, most popular form of Motorsport in that country - none bigger than NASCAR and with Australia already having a competing driver with Marcos Ambrose there, along with bit parts played by other drivers over the years, it would fit really well with our theme - V8's, big noise, exciting road racing. Just a whimsical thought, that's all ... |
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