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Originally Posted by DX20VT
And you may find if Tier one was held as 6 rounds at Hampton Downs the good numbers may be there too.
All classes can have a good one off entry,
Production GT had something link 35 to 30 cars at Teretonga.
Try getting you masses of Classic competitors to run a full season of races across all the NZ tracks and see how many would still enter?
For the good of motorsport in NZ a series may have to suffer some low numbers at some tracks to help promote others,
after all it is Motorsport New Zealand, Not Motorsport Auckland.
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The F5000's do a great job of running a full series including Oz rounds, they always get a packed grid and lots of spectators.
Interesting comment from SM regarding what live TV does to spectator numbers. I am a bit on the fence on that one, it probably works to have it one week later (max) but some might argue that the TV coverage boosts the profile of the sport, thereby encouraging people to get along and see it when it gets to their town. This is something that TMC have never done very well, which I reckon is much more of a problem than the TV coverage.
Also lack of decent support classes never helped either, probably a bit better this year with the GT's but I'd been long gone as a paying spectator by then. By contrast, I always go to the F5000's and I will be going to the ST's again next month. You figure it out...