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Originally Posted by fredd1
mac,
You're on the right track - sure, it's all hindsight now, but the Champ/Indy racers at Surfers were a great spectacle and it's a shame that the Q government didn't try a bit harder to accommodate them.
Sorry for those who invested their hard earned in getting to what is now going to be largely a non event. The V8's are worth seeing tho they were at best, only running second to what was to be the main interest.
Strange to look back and see that the V8's didn't figure at this meeting a few short years ago. Don't recall tho why they weren't wanted or who didn't want who.
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Champcar always wanted to be there, but the irl never did and only took the race for one year. Ultimately it was a dumb move abandoning a race which was well established AND one that paid for everything for them to come down.
Now the irl is scrambling to get a brand new race off the ground in the sugar cane fields of brazil along with starry visions of mega million prize funds and no surprise the race is going nowhere.
V8SC over the years ended up going from supporting the surfers race to pretty much sharing billing with it. Hence after a while they began to believe most fans were coming for the V8's and therefore they wanted all the cash and to be the headline event. Now they got it!
