Thread: An Age Question
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Old 19 Mar 2018, 23:59 (Ref:3809223)   #11
Casper
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I watched a video of a motor race that took place in the 1970's recently at a circuit I spent a lot of time at both as a spectator and as a competitor at club level driving my road car. The place was packed to the rafters with mostly people that were "younger" and certainly in numbers that would never be seen today either in age or numbers. Where are those people now? One of them is writing this post, a lot of them no longer walk this earth and the replacement younger people are not seen to be happening.

I think motor sport has to face a certain fact, it is destined to be a very niche sport in years to come and only became as popular as what it was by chance after the second world war. The generation of people who made it that way is rapidly dwindling and the one they influenced such as their children are at middle age or thereabouts. It is a conundrum I have been thinking about more and more, will the digital age and the streaming media be the saviour or are those promoting that avenue beating a dead horse?
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