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Originally Posted by Mike Bell
Yes, clocks go forward during the meeting! When we raced at Ricard in 2013 the box rental was more than most race entry fees- so we declined the offer.....  Think when PA race there, if you’re in a box, it’s not charged extra? |
Different times and conditions Mike, also different Directors.
Patrick Quiniou was the first to get Paul Ricard re-opened for historic cars and the conditions were at the time very special, hence the price of garages, additional badges or the mandatory catering and so on. Public was not even allowed back then and they could only get in if buying specific tickets and catering altogether.
Patrick Peter got there a few years later, got over the other Patrick and in the same fashion he has done for his other meetings, negotiated everything but also the Director had changed, the circuit was now willing to bring-in the public and things got off a different way for him.