EARLY BOOKING LIST - SHEFFIELD 26th July

rapidyellow · Number of posts: 32 Age: 38 Registration date: 2007-03-20

wolfysmith wrote:

I don't think the situation is helped by two organisations running the sport in tandem. One run by drivers, for drivers that won't grasp the nettle of keeping costs down because as someone once said to me 'turkeys don't vote for christmas'

I cant ever see that changing, but in the last couple of years the "men in the middle" aka the BMB have worked wonders, you never hear of struggles between bscda and brisca anymore in the closed season like what we used to get prior to the formation of the BMB

Back to sheffield again I think the meeting would have drawn the same amount of cars even if there wasnt a shale meeting the night before, but as others have said its not the car numbers that are an issue, its the spectators who are NOT there watching that the sport needs to get back

tim1203 · Number of posts: 67 Registration date: 2008-02-20

This is avery good debate but some contradictions keep appearing.
One hand is saying resricting meetings to one a week would set the sport back and send the wrong message, yet the same voices are all for restrcting car cost and development.
It's being said car numbers are a major concern yet also saying you don't need a lot of cars for good racing.
The issue as I see it is parts of the sport are proffesional in approach but other parts are amateur, very amateur in part. IMO all parties in the sport need to compromise a little, drivers need to remember "the show" is vital, fans need to accept times have moved on, promtions need to accept the silly little things really do affect attendances ( major improvements already this year ).
We seem to get carried away with venues who don't get Coventry's crowds, but ALL sports have venues better supported than others, fact of life. I remember when i first got into the drug of stock cars, venues like Hartlepool and Aycliffe only got 30 or so cars and crowds way below that of Coventry, the sport of F1 has always been middle England, infact F2's have progressed dramatically to become a full national sport.
As i have said many times a F1 stock car is unique in appearance and in it's type of racing and that is what everyone should be focusing on, A F1 never fails to turn heads when introduced to a new audience, it's just lost in the transaction of getting those heads into unknown stadia ( what % of Birmingham know wheels raceway exisits, and as been said on here what % of manchunians realise Stock cars still race in Manchester ).
If the BBC thing lives up to expectations i really do believe some of the issues will be forgotten and then if the sport moves fully into the 2010's with sensible changes who knows ( The N/S shootout rounds getting good media coverage because it'sonly 10 rounds).