Quote Originally Posted by Starter
Your ideas are good but for one thing. It's not the IRL's responsibility to do the promotion for one event (the series, yes). It is the event promoter's job to do all that. Seems like the Toronto folks are trying to do it on the cheap. You would think that they would want to do a good job. The more folks who buy a ticket, the more money they make.

You also have to remember that in the early days it was Molson who was the promoter. First, they were experienced promoters of other events, I'm not sure about the current group. Second, they were not only promoting the race, they were promoting their beer. So, if they broke even or lost some money on the event it was an advertising expense.
Starter...doing it on the cheap was last year...this year will be more like doing it REALLY cheap.

The IRL I think though should be working with the local promotors and explaining to them the facts of life. All of those are great ideas, but I suspect it isn't just the promoters here that don't seem to grasp it....