- 17 Mar 10, 12:02#190143
How about the wrong tires? This is bullcrap. I went to every US Grand Prix. There were great crowds at the begining, moderate crowds at the end. Bernie owned the marketing rights and severly hampered the promoter's ability to advertise an promote the race. One example is the fact that local media were exculded from broadcasting from the track. This is the media that broadcasts to most of Indiana, which would help build local support and excitement for the race. The local media showed up to do various broadcasts from the track, as they do for the Indy 500 and the Brickyard 400. They were told by Bernie's group to leave. From that point on you would not have even known there was an international sporting event happening in the state of Indiana. No coverage at all.
Bernie makes it such that only governments can afford to host a race. Basically it came down to the fact that Bernie had sucked all the money he could from a US Grand Prix and decided there was more event fees to be had in the desert.
Anyway, there are 1001 reasons that it failed, plenty of blame to go around. But come one, don't blame it on "the wrong crowd"
"It's only the fact that it's all the wrong crowd and the wrong people ... nothing worked there really - we'd have to have a big change round but we'd like to get back there."
How about the wrong tires? This is bullcrap. I went to every US Grand Prix. There were great crowds at the begining, moderate crowds at the end. Bernie owned the marketing rights and severly hampered the promoter's ability to advertise an promote the race. One example is the fact that local media were exculded from broadcasting from the track. This is the media that broadcasts to most of Indiana, which would help build local support and excitement for the race. The local media showed up to do various broadcasts from the track, as they do for the Indy 500 and the Brickyard 400. They were told by Bernie's group to leave. From that point on you would not have even known there was an international sporting event happening in the state of Indiana. No coverage at all.
Bernie makes it such that only governments can afford to host a race. Basically it came down to the fact that Bernie had sucked all the money he could from a US Grand Prix and decided there was more event fees to be had in the desert.
Anyway, there are 1001 reasons that it failed, plenty of blame to go around. But come one, don't blame it on "the wrong crowd"
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