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Originally Posted by 1975DCS
@tbtstt, maybe you were ok with the balance so far is because the UK was not affected like in some areas in Europe. I live in Holland and we already lost Valkenswaard, which I can understand of the inboard paddock, but we also have the dreadful Mettet circuit
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Not having IMG running the NRV (the dutch club that organizes the RX) into a total financial dead trap was the clubs own decision, not IMG's. Back then the fee they asked was just criminal and the contract period far to long, with just a piece of paper with just legal mumbo jumbo and loads of demands to show and some very far fetched dream visions as hollow promises. They were dangling the bait of millions of tv-viewers without being able to name a Dutch (or any other) broadcaster they had a contract with (there wasn't any) The just 16 car race format they proposed was sh*te (and since dropped, remember) etc etc.
Of course that was much to do with being 1 of the first to have been asked to sign.
RCE didn't take of because of 1. money 2. willingness to work together between the european clubs/circuits 3. lack of vision and willingness to invest in a future by drivers. 4. lack of a powerful enough promoter.