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without knowing details etc and speaking purely anecdotally purely from visual clues, this one's been coming for a few years. which is a huge shame because it works, and the entire programme has been a great thing for the spectator especially in the uk. without something really big and noisy to lure people to the wsr events it's going to be hard to get bums on seats.
it'll be hard work for rpm to keep the prestige going with 3.5 especially if it doesn't remain on the world series by renault programme. and it's also hard work to see where it would fit in the market without some serious investment in more reliable and longer lifed components. also perhaps looking at it very differently and trying to forge deals with something like lmp2 or lmp3 for dual elms campaigns to try and force-feed an alternate career progression path into the mix.
promptly paid decent race-by-race prize money might work to entice those without gp2 budgets in, but then you're relying on drivers with less than big wedges of cash and that makes it hard for teams to commit to something they're unlikely to get a secure seat from.
in a way it'd be better if everyone walked away at the end of the season instead of trying to sustain it in an already weak market, but there's plenty of reasons why that wouldn't be clever.
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