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wtf is up with only 26 cars?

Started by brighty08, December 08, 2021, 10:49:16 PM

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Roadways6

Quote from: Troy01505 on December 14, 2021, 12:04:56 PM
Quote from: Roadways6 on December 14, 2021, 11:56:51 AM
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Quote from: djr18fan on December 14, 2021, 05:56:33 AM. Extra underfunded entrants coming and going  don't help build fan loyalty. Could well harm the categories reputation.

My god, how ever did the series survive for so many decades without franchises and guaranteed incomes.

Funnily enough the privateers coming and going built the fan loyalty that the series has lived off since 1997!

It struggled.

Every promo for the series these days harks back to the 60s and 70s, the Gen3 cars were released with old cars in the background, they say the Ford v Holden rivalry was forged in the 60s and 70s....

Yet now you're saying it struggled. Right....

Yes it struggled, it's the bones of where we came from but in the "old glory day" apart from the top few teams everyone else either full time businesses or had full time employment outside of the sport, these days they are making money and almost all teams have a full time staff member for almost every role in the team. Series and teams are in the best financial position they have ever been.

You've gone off on a completely irrelevant pathway.

The poster said that non full-time entrants would harm fan loyalty and the categories reputation.

The poster forgets that the fan loyalty enjoyed today was BUILT by the part time privateers, and the category lives off the reputation built by the ATCC at a time when there were plenty of part-time entrants. Just watch a modern day telecast, they slender half the time trying to link everything back to the 70s and 89s....