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chris @ Feb 12th 2008 4:15AM
What does Champ Car have anything to do with this? The average Australian motorsport fan wouldn't even recognise Will Power if they saw him, they probably don't even know that Champ Cars is the open-wheel series that races here alongside the V8s once a year. The only series that means anything here is V8 Supercars, F1 has lost a lot of support due to being increasingly boring as the years go by, and it doesn't pull in enough money to Melbourne to justify the cost of running the event. Costs that would skyrocket with the installation and running of lights if forced to run the race at night. 2010 will definitely be the last Australian GP for quite a long time.
why not the LS2LS7? @ Feb 12th 2008 11:45AM
Right right. I guess all those people at the Surfer's Paradise race are cardboard cutouts.
It doesn't make sense to leave a market to your competitor, even if you competitor is weak. You're only going to give them a chance to increase in stature. Maybe they'd offer some up and comers (like Whincup or such) from V8 Supercars a ride in Champ Cars to hope to transfer fans. You never know.
I understand what you're saying about the race costing too much. I'm sure the sanctioning fees are enormous for F1. But lighting isn't that bad. In the US, they will set up temporary lighting for college football games. Lighting a race would cost more (due to more installations), but it can't be that bad. They currently set up those huge videowalls simply to make seats more attractive, setting up a few lights can't be that bad.
I guess you think Bernie doesn't consider himself in competition with Champ Car, which might be true given F1 left the US already. But I think that there's a chance Bernie might be wrong.