KRC 24 hour race off

Champ says...

Oh ****. just as well I didn't book all that hoilday then.

 

Aha now I understand then

'Hog

 

You're pissed off? What the hell am I going to do with all this baking
stuff?

I'll have to show support at a different round. I was looking forward
to that one. Commiserations all round, I suspect this was going to be
a bit of an event for the team?

 

Arse, I was rather looking forward to it

 

We can still make it a very pleasant event

Hog

 

Suzuka is eight, innit?

 

Not enough sponsorship forms sent in?

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Cunts.

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It's all down to bean counters, not wanting to take a chance IYAM.

If Motorsport 'Vision' lived up to their name, they should have
run the first one as a loss leader, hyped it up properly and got the
punters in to balance the books. Instead, I suspect they simply
charged KRC the standard rate, thus putting the race out of most
current teams budgets. Guaranteeing a low competitor count and
scuppering the whole caboodle.

Which is a shame. Handled properly with the correct promotion and
low enough prices for the competitors, a 24 hour race could become
a big thing, IMHO, clearly. Run it for a couple of years, then
get the big continental teams interested and bobs related to your
mother, they could grow it into a fairly prestigious event.

I'm mightily pissed off. :-<

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Ever noticed how time flits by or drags on for ages? Get 24 hours,
line 'em up and set 'em going.

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/mbr

 

Hmmm, what do you reckon it costs to stage something like this?

'Hog

 

Hmm...I wonder if they have actually been to a proper 24 hr race -
Bandol anybody?

 

Alternately - running a race with 20 starters, and therefore less than
10 finishers, would have looked so half-arsed that no one would have
given it a second chance.

 

Suzuka is eight, innit?[/QUOTE]

Yes, but I was specifically talking about Snett.

They run the Suzuka 8 hour so that the last couple of hours are in the
dark. If it didn't add such extra complication/expense, I reckon that
might be a reasonable compromise for Snett this time.

 

I entirely agree. Which is why I went on to suggest a possible solution.
You know, the bit you snipped.

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Windy's "little soldier"

 

Well, a rough guess, if Motorsport required 50 entries and KRC were
charging £1250 per seat. Say something around the £65k mark, for the
race alone?

If they dropped the entry price by 50%, they'd say, need to take a gate
of around 4000 people to recoup their costs. But then there'd be all
the ancillary costs of proper promotion and laying on other attractions
etc. So I figure they'd need to go for a gate of what, say 10,000?
I've no idea of what the cost of promotion, etc, would be, the above is
a wild guess. But surely there must be enough bike racing fans in the
country to come along and support a properly run event. Look at all the
Brits who used to go down to the Bol, who do go over to Le Mans etc.

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Alex
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DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8
http://www.team-ukrm.co.uk
Windy's "little soldier"

 

Would 10 000 people actually fit into Snetterton? IMO, that's the biggest
problem from a crowd POV - the venue, not the event.

It's not a great circuit to go watch a race at.

 

Could one argue that might be a logical first step? "Little steps", rather
than trying to do a whole 24 hour race first out...

 

i'll still be here...