NEE! op de lange termijn. Hoe graag ook dat ik het anders zou zien..........
Wellicht dat we een korte opleving krijgen met de nieuwe Le Mans Serie, maar dat effekt zal binnen enkele jaren zijn uitgewerkt.
Voor deze ene keer hoop ik dat ik met mijn "visie" totaal fout zit
op het forum van ten-tenths heeft iemand dat heel mooi omschreven.......
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4.Oppinion only: Motor manufacturers spend money on motorsport for only one reason - to market their road cars and sell more of them so that they can make money for their shareholders. It is actually very difficult to demonstrate any direct correlation between racing and even regularly winning, and improved sales. Therefore, any manufacturers commitment to motorsport is a result of the level of interest of a single boardmember or group of boardmembers. As this group of people regularly change, or their areas of responsibility regularly change the reason for the cyclical nature of investment becomes apparent. Only F1, WRC, NASCAR and DTM have held companies' interest for so long because of the truly astronomical viewing figures that they have. As racing is only marketing...
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En de daaropvolgende conclusie m.b.t. de Proto's
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7.Oppinion only: Prototype cars are fantastic and I'd love to continue to see them racing, but they are almost impossible to justify for a manufacturer (in terms of marketing returns), or a privateer in terms of cost.
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Elk nadeel heb zijn voordeel om met de woorden van Johan Cruijf te spreken:
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6.Oppinion only: GTS and GT seems to be the best chance for long-term manufacturer interest, because for a relatively(!) modest investment, they can race something clearly identifiable as a roadcar - this market is only currently filled globally by WRC (and DTM to a much lesser extent in Europe - excluding the UK), but for a different type of car. All of this depends on far more significant television exposure (as ever).
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Helaas in het engels, maar de boodschap zal wel duidelijk zijn.