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Originally Posted by JamieStewart9
Bella - You are quite right about the cost of circuit hire frightening off prospective event organisers, but that is slowly starting to change as more and more weekend dates are going unsold to racing activities.
With many venues now being forced to run Trackdays on what were once Prime weekend dates, the operators are beginning to become more open to unusual ideas.
Watch this space.
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for example, croft have a 2 day trackday on the sunday/monday of august bank holiday weekend which just seems ridiculous. it's great for the trackday industry because people don't need to be out of the office and can still have a go, but it can't be good for the "sport" bit of the "motorsport" industry. if people can't go and see racing, what are they aspiring to when they take their road car/trackday special on track?
i'm not sure this rapidly expanding idea of a big summer break for the entire sport is such a good idea either - many of the big series taking a break during the month of august seems like a prime time for circuits to be booked solid with stuff for parents and kids to go and watch. and let's be real, we don't exactly have a summer here either, and august is one of the warmest months of the year. it's fine for f1, but anything below that really should be capitalising on it, not joining them.