I really fail to see how this story on Speedcafe was anything more than a V8Supercar attempt to create some destaibilisation in the week following the event having a major positive announcement (the Ch7 deal)
What V8SC did do with those non-commital comments from Mr Warburton was to basically ensure that alot the leading teams wanting to race in the event can now not confirm their driver line-up (to sponsors for example) until V8Supercars decides to release their calendar for next year, and that announcement hasn't always been early in the last few years.
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Originally Posted by eduardo1
There's no doubt that an Australian event benefits from having the very best Australian teams and drivers in the event.
And the very best Australian drivers are in the V8 Supercars championship.
It's a win-win having them in the 12 Hour.
The event gets more publicity
The quality of the overseas drivers is easier to judge when put against known benchmarks
The Oz drivers get more time around the best track in Australia
They also get more seat time full stop - which given the lack of testing and time on the weekends is becoming a louder and louder complaint from them.
It's something that should be encouraged and applauded when it happens. If V8SC gets in the way of that, they should be rightly criticised for it.
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Agreed completely
The involvement of the V8 drivers is what attracts more of the 'general' interest and gets the fence sitters to decide to come watch the race, they see names they are familiar with.
As great a drivers as the likes of Maxi Buhk or Matt Griffin are, they weren't the drivers who got the likes of Channel 9's Erin Molan to spend all weekend reporting on the 2014 Bathurst 12hr, it was drivers like Lowndes, SVG and Will Davison. They are the one's that give the event the extra 'push' that the organsiers wanted with the 2011 rule changes.