Wednesday 27th November 2002

Rockingham Loses 2003 Cart Race

Not enough time to prepare a successful marketing campaign say Rockingham

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[jasper gilder]

I see a slippery slope and Rockingham is about half way down it. The crowd at the Autumn race was poor, the race the year before a fiasco. I wonder if Rockingham is making any money out of anything other than testing.

I hope they don't go the way of the Birmingham Superprix but if Rockingham is still trading with it's current management team in 2004 I will be most surprised!

[kevinday]

Doh! Perhaps they should have started marketing it earlier than this, they will have known the date for a lomg time now.

[Roy C]

kevinday said: Doh! Perhaps they should have started marketing it earlier than this, they will have known the date for a lomg time now.

I think that the real problem is that there isn't the following for CART in the UK that they originally expected. In the first year they expected not to make a profit (despite / because of the high ticket prices), having only just completed the oval, but they didn't do very well this year either. I hope Rockingham can survive on testing and the use of the infield circuit for national events.

[GrahamG]

I think you'll see a CART race at brands in 2003

[rev-erend]

looks like the beginning of the end.. sadly.