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Doran will say anything really, as anyone else would to make it look like this is affecting his business.
He will suffer enormously this year losing WRX, but didn't help himself by then risking everything on GRC, and he would be likely a more knowledgeable position than the rest of us who surely could see the writing was on the wall for that series.
He tried to charge the same money for a naff event at a crap time of year. That was daft. But you could his reasons., try and recoup what you lose. Other racing has been closed off there also, and he put his pot into rallycross, which has been dropped coz his track is not good enough to stage the big events anymore.
Lydden will never be houses, residents just want it to be fields! As they will likely ***** about any sort of development. Be it race track, or anything else, that is what local residents too. Despite the fact there are very few actually that close by.
But what he was planning did not really fit what the circuit has now, there is no real future business model for Lydden with the restrictions imposed surely? McLaren must have realised this, perhaps why that did not work as they couldn't do anything with it either.
What is he planning? BTCC rounds? To get WRX back, that amount of development surely does not warrant one meeting a year? BSB? Track extension as you couldn't hold a lot of stuff there now as it's too short?
Who knows, but for me if it does go the blame lies equally with Doran and IMG, as Doran was pivotal in the starting of WRX and has now been crapped on by IMG.
But this situation is probably the same at Valkenswaard, Sosnova, Nyiraid, Maasmechelen and any round that previously held ERC and used that mney to survive for the year.
Oddly don't understand the McLaren reference, thought they hadn't had anything to do with Lydden for donkeys years?
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