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Originally Posted by mayhem
Neither were street races and 200 million dollar TV contracts, so you know, ying and yang.
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Still would have happened without going to war with other categories. Other categories might have been able to prosper alongside as well
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Oh right like the category that described V8s as "dinosaurs"? Alan Gow and by proxy Kelvin O'Reilly didn't spare the whip either so let's not revise history just because one died within 2 years and one went on for more than 10 times that...
Just quietly the head of any organisation is out to push the interests of that organisation above all others. Whether it be sport or business, or a sport that runs as a business, this is how it works. If someone was out competed by Supercars then they simply needed to recruit better.
Very good CEOs are rarely popular because they get **** done.
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Please show me the quotes where Alan Gow and Kelvin O’Reilly themselves describe V8s as dinosaurs?
The organisers of the Bathurst 1000, which didn’t involve Gow or O’Reilly, may have said that, but only after negotiations with AVESCO had fallen over
In 1996 no other categories were ‘competing’ with Supercars, Australian motor racing was competing with other sports. In 1997 it was AVESCO that suddenly decided other motor racing categories were the enemy, not other sports