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Old 7 Dec 2022, 19:18 (Ref:4136380)   #113
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Originally Posted by V8 Fireworks View Post
Across the pond, Indycar are really struggling for commercial relevance and sponsorship (no money for 2.4L engine plan so that's cancelled for example) while Formula One booms, even in the United States.

What's going on? Is "Drive to Survive" really that powerful? If so, why doesn't Indycar participate in their own streaming reality television show?
Indycar (& Champcar before it) struggle for attention as it is a domestic series & NASCAR is the big kid on the block domestically. Domestic single-seaters have struggled for years here in Australia for the same reason - Touring Cars is the big thing here domestically.

It appears that DtS is very strong - think I saw somewhere that Indycar has something similar in production & it appears that a number of sporting bodies are trying to do something similar with their behind the scenes stories.
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