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it’s pretty crap for staff like me who work in both series. the fewer the clashes, the more we can work and mitigate the loss of the first few months of the season which for some reason are the busiest. we wouldn’t make any more money by running races deeper into the winter, because it eats into testing time when we’d be earning anyway.
quite a few gt teams compete in dubai/abu dhabi events at the end of the year which could be an issue, although i think they’ve moved to january now? there’s still transit time and stuff.
plus you’ve got relatively limited marshalling staff, and many volunteers and stewarding staff are of advanced years and may prefer not to put themselves at risk this season. same goes for some team and other staff. there’s a lot of otherwise retired folk who do things like drive trucks.
lots of factors from lots of angles.
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