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Rich people and foreigners are hardly ever around to like this sort of motorsport, as they are not in the USA, it is blue collar only really. And places like London haven't contained a large percentage of blue collar workers for decades. But darts have managed it, so there is a chance. Just not every week or every month.
IN comparison with the US where short ovals thrive, that is my comparison, there is no other place than perhaps Aus and New Zealand, very similar in NZ but the contact element there is arguably harder than the UK. But again, a place totally isolated and therefore a captive audience, not so much the case in the UK where land costs a fortune in inner cities to capture that inner city blue collar vibe and crowd it managed to in the 70's.
Those cities were full of manufacturing and factories, they are not any more, so understanding that is pivotal to understanding why inner city ovals do not work any more.
People think there is a fanbase for NFL here too, but every week no chance! Three times a year fine. But not a franchise based in the UK, it would not last more than a few years.
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