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Originally Posted by mountainstar
In regards to manufacturers they really don't care about what happened 30 years ago in some race series. No one other than motor racing nerds like us remembers or cares. All they care about is their self interest right now. People at these companies rotate jobs every few years and everyone has different priorities, so things constantly change.
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Yep, spot on. Good example using the same manufacturer - BMW turbo F1 engines did OK but then the rules changed to NA (or BMW was "banned" using the OP's logic) but only a few short years later, BMW was back in F1, supplying NA engines and buying into a BMW-badged team.
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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks
Re: spectator interest, the multi-make multi-national Formula 1 series sees the Australian Grand Prix as a sellout (even so, stands are not even full during the ATCC races there), which ought to tell ATCC organisers something!
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AGP is not a national series as Supercars is, happens once a year and even though not everyone there hangs around to watch Supercars, enough spectators and corporates do that AGP pay Supercars a significant stipend to attend and even built a 2nd pit lane to accomodate Supercars.