MotoGP of... Wales
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I struggle to see how it'll work, to be honest.
As you said, even established circuits seem to be struggling a bit and whilst a custom built circuit probably would not actually cost much more than bringing an existing one up to strength, there's surely a huge infrastructure that needs plumbing in too?
Look at Rockingham, after all the massive fanfare of it opening as the UKs Indianapolis it's kinda fizzled out. And that's slap bang in the middle of the UK.
Good luck to them and I'm sure they've put much more thought into it than I have, but it seems a bit pie in the sky to me at the moment...
As you said, even established circuits seem to be struggling a bit and whilst a custom built circuit probably would not actually cost much more than bringing an existing one up to strength, there's surely a huge infrastructure that needs plumbing in too?
Look at Rockingham, after all the massive fanfare of it opening as the UKs Indianapolis it's kinda fizzled out. And that's slap bang in the middle of the UK.
Good luck to them and I'm sure they've put much more thought into it than I have, but it seems a bit pie in the sky to me at the moment...
DrDoofenshmirtz said:
It's because motorsport, especially motorcycling, doesn't have the public fan base any more.
Your average Joe would rather watch football, tennis, cycling etc.
Noisy things with engines are just not that cool any more.
I'd argue MotoGP is more popular/mainstream now than for a long, long while. Your average Joe would rather watch football, tennis, cycling etc.
Noisy things with engines are just not that cool any more.
Same with the TT, speak to the average person and they've all heard of it (in no small part thanks to Guy Martin and things like Closer to the Edge. Can you imagine Joey Dunlop on the One Show
), 15 years ago hardly anyone had!
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