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Originally Posted by Alan52

As we have strayed off the path into an evaluation of Cochrane my 2 cents worth.
He took an undervalued sport and commercialised it.My objections at the time were his predatory attitude towards circuits and non Supercar competitors.He had no sense of the sport as a whole and saw everyone and everything else involved in it as a target to be gouged.The Australian motor racing ecosystem is too fragile for this not to hurt everyone else in it.
It was not inevitable that someone else would have come along and done the same stuff.Look at how ARG have worked as an alternate model.
As for $350million it was never worth that as Archer found the day they were handed the keys.In the sale process Cochrane was a dead ringer for the monorail salesman in The Simpsons.I was staggered at the time Archer were that gullible.
And if he is such a genius how can you explain the train wrecks of every sports venture he has been involved with since?
Back to the Creek.

ARG is a patron-based model. Archer/Supercar is a commercial-based model. And never the twain shall meet...