GP2 Versus International F3000

[Rob29]

Originally posted by skyblue
there's no getting away from the fact that compared to any other professional sport, motor-racing looks a little bit like a local knitting club.

What other sport that requires each participant to produce 800K-1.3m Euro in 4 months time would have 'no news', 'no regulations', 'no media deal' etc., at this time.

When you look at this sort or organisation from a sponsorship viewpoint, it's a farce. There's no series profile, no marketing and no buzz. In the marketing world Gp2 does not exist. Guess what? It's already way too late for serious new company sponsorship to be found.

This means that any good driver who needs sponsosrship is going to struggle so as usual we'll be left with half a grid of fairly useless well-off grid fillers.

Frankly this organisation is appalingly bad and totally amateurish. The focus on the car alone and the lateness of all other aspects speaks of petrol-head management that is oblivious to the real commercial world we live in.

Bernie E strikes again! Aparently there is an embargo on news until mid november.Same day as F1 entries are confimed?

[Kicking-back]

November 15.

[Kicking-back]

And remember - just because we're not hearing things publicly does not mean nothing's being discussed behind the scenes.

[skyblue]

I accept that KB but in marketing terms it's a lame duck already. It seems to be 'necessary' now to have private money as the organisations themsleves are part of the problem of finding sponsorship.

[sceptic]

Exactly.
We know what's going on, we know we can't say anything until next week.

...but the people reading Autosport* are only seeing Formula Superfund, and thinking "that looks good!"



(*other motorsport publications are available)

[Kicking-back]

GP2 is no further behind where F3000 was at this time in most off-seasons.

And GP2, once launched, will be promoted and marketed in a much more aggressive way than F3000 ever was.

Bruno Michel is the head of GP2 - no-one was ever really in charge of F3000, it just existed.

This will be a great series, although I agree it would have been nice to have a lot of public announcements before Superfund did.

[DanFlag]

Originally posted by Rob29
Bernie E strikes again! Aparently there is an embargo on news until mid november.Same day as F1 entries are confimed?

Hey Rob29!!! Long time since we talked. Who told you that about the Bernie gag order?

[Kicking-back]

It's fairly well known in the media that Bruno Michel wants to present "the whole package" rather than release info in dribs and drabs.

[sceptic]

The trouble is that those tactics don't work these days. If you want to keep the championship in the public eye you need to drip feed information.

What will happen is that next week there will be a big announcement, and then by the end of the month everyone will have forgotten, and nobody will think about it until March.

The only people that will benefit are Bruno and Will, because it means they can have three months of carefree skiing.

[Don K]

Originally posted by Kicking-back
GP2 is no further behind where F3000 was at this time in most off-seasons.

I would think that in most off seasons, people would have known whether or not F3000 would exist during the next season.
And I would think that in most off-seasons, there would have been signs that Fia would allow F3000 to be part of their F1 weekends.
And most important: I would think that in *most* off seasons, F3000 didn't have to worry about any serious rival series (let alone two or three of them).