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Good post John. But what of promoters? Most of the tracks have multi-year agreements. In CC's case, many of those are with local governments and not easily broken. Votes have been taken in city councils as to whether-or-not streets should be repaved at the expense of the taxpayer. And although there's alot less red-tape, the same can be said for every contracted circuit - in that they'd want to be compensated for a breach-of-contract should their venue be dropped from a unified schedule.
That's why I'll eat my hat if a merger happens in 2007.
You're spot-on when you suggest that the sponsors would love it. In fact it would attract new ones, and many that have fallen aside would return. As for the manufacturers? Honda wants it. But does Ford? Cosworth would need branding. And the regs would need to be very strict.
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