65% of Supercar On The Market for $100m - CONFIRMED & STALLED

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Originally Posted by Alan52

There is a saying history is written by the winners and that is definitely the case here.

Most definitely

Originally Posted by Alan52

To discount the history of any sports event any time there is a change of organiser,TVs network or even competitor base does not happen.

In this case there was a consistent organiser for 35 years. The competitor base chose not to compete in that event anymore and went off and started their own race, with the race they left continuing on for another 2 years in competition.

To me that indicates the end of one event, and the overlapping start of another one. They were two different sporting events.

The whole way the firstly IMG and now Supercars run 1000 is run is for completely different purposes to that of which the original race was run. All they shared in common was a race distance and competitor base.

Originally Posted by Alan52

History lesson.In 94 the ARDC,7 network and Bathurst Council formed the Bathurst Consortium to promote racing at Bathurst.

The three-way collaboration in running the race went back to 1988, when ATN7 funded the purchase of the event marketing rights off Promo International, which resulted in ATN7 taking on full responsibility for all the marketing & promotion of the race from then on

Originally Posted by Alan52

If the ARDC was not bound by the consortium they may have done a deal with AVESCO but there certainly would have been no Super Touring 1000.

Of course they could have, but in this case the ARDC/Consortium was bound by a TV deal with Channel 7 for the event that went through to 2004.
The stumbling block (publically) was played out around TV deal.... AVESCO said they'd only race on the Long Weekend with Channel 10...so basically they wanted the Bathurst 1000 to break their contract, so AVESCO didn't have to break their contract...

Of course in an interview in 2012 on V8 Insiders, Tony Cochrane made a comment about the teams laughing in 1996 when he suggested they should take over Bathurst, so did AVESCO ever really have any intention of working with the traditional event?

It would have been interesting to see what the landscape of motorsport would have been like if there was already a second successful event at Bathurst still going in the 1996/97 period (eg...had the 12hr kept on going) and there was no weekend available for the AVESCO 1000 to take place on.