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Originally Posted by Sandgroper
TO be fair, if COVID stays around, its a big outlay for a street event with no spectators (possibly)
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Agree - right now there's no guarantee that we'll be clear of COVID in 2022, so doing a new contract would make no sense.
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Originally Posted by chavez
The statement from the SA Tourism Minister make no mention of this.
It acknowledges the existence of The Bend as a private facility but I don't believe there is an expectation that the SA government will throw dollars behind The Bend.
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The SA Govt has already thrown significant dollars at The Bend - may or may not spend more on events there, remains to be seen.
Great shame that this event will be no more but it's fair to say that it has lost some lustre in recent years - people now running it who lack the vision of their predecessors and as we all know, Supercar crowds are not at the level they were ten years ago.
I can remember standing in pit lane next to David Richards and Tony Cochrane in the mid-noughties, when DR had the commercial rights to the WRC and a stake in Benetton etc etc - he was blown away by the event and raving about how good it was and that there was nothing like it anywhere else in the world.
Fantastic event and will be sorely missed, that's for sure.