Autosport International 2023?

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Going on the trade day, anyone else? There seems to be very title from autosport themselves about who or what will be displaying, hopefully it’s not going the way of a lot of shows since covid (most I’ve visited have been shadows of their former selves).

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Went yesterday, pretty disappointing to be honest. Very little F1 except a few show cars, next to no rally-modern or historic.

Food was extortionate (as always) although we dodged the £18 parking by using the train.

Loads of tuner cars and JDM stuff but quite what any of it had to do with motorsport I’ve no idea.

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The cost of displaying has gone up dramatically according to some in the rally industry I spoke with, £10k for a stand just isn't possible for a lot of car builders so they aren't bothering with it.

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I know for a fact some old exhibitors were approached last week with a discounted rate but it was too late. The biggest shame was with the F1 in schools project on Thursday there were hundreds of kids around the place-hundreds!

That's the next range of fans, already engaged but nothing to show them.

Obviously taking selfies with tuner cars and MrJWW's collection was thought enough. Such a shame.

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Kitchens, Bedrooms and Bathrooms was massively smaller last year although I hoped that as it was quite close to post covid that was the reason for it.

It now looks like it is industry wide. As with Pirelli missing from autosport, at KBB you had the huge manufacturers like Haefle and Blum reducing their epic sized structures to plain old stands and some just not even bothering.

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egor110 said:

What return are exhibitors going to get though?

The majority of people going just want free stuff and photos by the cars , there not going buy the cars or enter the race series.

I would disagree with that.

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egor110 said:

Pflanzgarten said:

egor110 said:

What return are exhibitors going to get though?

The majority of people going just want free stuff and photos by the cars , there not going buy the cars or enter the race series.

I would disagree with that.

In which case all the car manufacturers, all the race teams would have stands there.

There were many people from our two local motor clubs attending, all of us dismayed at the lack of (in our case) rally prep businesses.

Between us we had 3 rally prepped historic cars, two were closed stage organisers and there were two with national licenses looking for sport or drives.

Me and my buddy specifically were interested in another mk1 mini shell and building up a track car. Anyone to talk to? No one.

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I can go and watch a film for about £3.50, that’s not a bad way to spend a couple of hours.

A slightly different price point to the autosport international this year I’ll grant you.

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No chance we'll be back this time.

By contrast, the classic car show this weekend was absolutely superb, arrived at 10:15am and leaving at 5pm we thought we could have handled at least another half day to get round and explore everything.

If I'd been going to watch the auction I would definitely be doing a weekend there. Sparse thread here;
https://www.pistonheads.com/gassing/topic.asp?h=0&...

Loads of vids on YouTube though, get yourselves there next year.

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Is race retro the one in February?