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Originally Posted by Bob Riebe
If the series dies, in road racing, it is because it has become worthless to the manufacturers and boring for the fans.
The Trans-Am almost died many years ago because the factories were leaving, but loyalist racers, and FANS, kept coming, and pretty soom the factories came back.
Eventually the sanction, kind of like the IMSA, drove both away, to a degree, and now it is just sort of simmering, at best, slightly worse off than the IMSA.
TV was not involved.
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You keep harping on about "many years ago". Many years ago, not everybody had a TV, and people listened to the radio and read newspapers. Many years ago, racing could be done out of your garage for less than a million bucks. Many years ago, a racing engine could be put in a road car and sold to the public.
Many years ago was many years ago. The game has changed.