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Originally Posted by peckstar
Ok, not a discussion i really want to get into, as its another topic, but the consequence is a massive reduction in people attending. so for instance if Clipsal (adelaide 500) is dropped then you have just dropped the equivalent crowd of aprrox the next 4 events combined (TAS, PI, WA & Winton). Thats a massive reduction and thats before we even bring in the move to TCR which was the question.
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They are not attending ANYWAY, crowds drastically dropping... because Supercars as a race promoter are losing the plot and cancelling the concerts at Sydney and Adelaide, which are what the general public attended the events for.
As for millennials, to many of them driving around in circles burning resources for mere entertainment is blatant waste. So in the context of motorsport becoming a historical oddity like horse racing they can only do the best they can to promote motorsport.
Motorsport is no longer seen as fearless daredevils in awesome machines as it was seen in the 50s and 60s. Often it is instead, rightly, seen as uber wealthy playboys entertaining themselves by blatantly wasting resources... Not if these wealthy amateurs are
simply not thinking about the famine affected poverty-stricken losers of the global inequality balance and how they could better direct their funds than on petrol, tyres and AP Racing brake discs! ^
^ To be fair, it is easy to get engrossed in glossy motorsport trade shows, five star hotels and submit to the first world fantasy.
Anyway, thankfully Erebus (for example) have wised up and now run their operation on the basis of commercially viable sponsorship. But the idea of patrons and wealthy gentleman and lady drivers in motorsport (for example paying for a GT car to race, then choosing to do minimal laps and hand over maximum seat time to the quick hired guns) is certainly very weird.