Originally Posted by
stefanvv
It did when I wrote it, but now not so sure, had to read it again what did I wrote.
I'm sure You (and friend) do, and I completely understand it. That was not what my post was about. The promoter doesn't care for You and friends going to some event to enjoy the sound, they care for the number of online/TV viewers, hence the manufacturer interest, hence the investment in the sport, and so on, and so on.
I'm not sure where You're going from here, it looks like the problem is the lack of UK driver on top of the competition. Sorry, I'm far-far away from UK, can't tell. But for the "competitiveness" argument I have to disagree completely.
In my point of view hardcore fan will always be such and go watch rallies, just because of the sport, not for some details. And I'm not sure how the sport promotion wins from being 500 people visiting each WRC event, or 500 000 people. For sure the host countries win from that, but there are already enough candidate events to be in WRC calendar.
My 2 cents, not pretending for 100% accuracy.