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IMG want to be at GP tracks, if they could have every round at one, that would be their goal. They maybe rightly think WRC is for NEW fans only, they don't want old fans, and new fans don't know where Nyiraid is, os Slomczyn, they know where Spa is, or Monza.
They don't care about the track quality, the size, the fact that modern rallycross now in their eyes is sort of rough asphalt and tar, not loose or gravel. it only looks like rallycross at all when it rains.
They have already priced rallycross away from older venues, unless they get massive crowds as that is the only way a Loheac, Holjes can pay for the hosting fees, the GP tracks have money anyway and are sold on the marketing that it will bring in massive crowds, which it may or may not do, but the GP tracks have the finances to risk more than say Lydden Hill do or Maasmecehelen who would be ruined by one loss making meeting.
This is their model, the old model of smaller venues did not work. Turkey, Argentina, Italy, all fell away quickly.
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