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Old 26 Sep 2014, 10:34 (Ref:3457789)   #44
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Originally Posted by isynge View Post
Inherently all of this starts to point at what I've long suspected - that the old sponsorship model introduced by Lotus in the 1960s has increasingly run its course, and that motorsport in general and sportscar racing in particular does not at present have a sustainable business model. If correctly done crowd funding helps redress this then I'm not sure I'm going to grumble, and who knows, I might even put my hand in my pocket...
Thats an interesting thought - but if you consider the number of cars being run worldwide in various categories by business sponsors money, I cannot see how crowd funding could ever replace that?
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