Quote Originally Posted by Allez Andruet View Post
Do you really? Sincerely asking, not saying you'd be right or wrong. Not that I would have a strong opinion of my own on the subject, but I assume that these days the exposure driver/car/sponsor gets, is somewhat dependent on self-marketing and using all available channels to increase brand awareness (or whatever the sponsor is seeking from the sponsorship deal, usually sponsorship - on the level we're talking about here - is about brand awareness). I.e. it's less and less about having the picture of the overall winner in a newspaper and more about being able to win (or to fight for the victory). And in that sense I doubt that the 100k would be "easier" to get for R5 campaign than the 75k for R4 campaign. Assuming that these two classes are equal competition wise.
For the Belgian Championship, there is a television report of each round, sunday afternoon, on the public television channel. They basically only showed the R5 cars. 2 or 3 images of the Junior winner and 3 other cars who won their classes for a short flash.
I'm sure the success of the Belgian championship is due to the television coverage.

If I see who can get a budget together for a top car now, I'm sure it's "relatively" easy. It's still a lot of money off course.