Countdown to Key West: Qatar Team Boats Out for SBI Worlds
#24
I think the reason the team was "un-invited" by the host organization was that it would impossible to prevent them from promoting their new series while being a guest at the event. While you can eat in a restaurant while building a competing restaurant, you cannot go to the patrons and tell them as they dine why your restaurant will be better. Bill France and Bernie Ecclestone have been more heavy handed than this when dealing with competitors. Concerning rooms we need more so if anyone is cancelling theirs please let me know!
Steve
Steve
#25
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I think the reason the team was "un-invited" by the host organization was that it would impossible to prevent them from promoting their new series while being a guest at the event. While you can eat in a restaurant while building a competing restaurant, you cannot go to the patrons and tell them as they dine why your restaurant will be better. Bill France and Bernie Ecclestone have been more heavy handed than this when dealing with competitors. Concerning rooms we need more so if anyone is cancelling theirs please let me know!
Steve
Steve
NASCAR allows you to compete in any series you wish as well as their series. Tony Stewart & Kurt Busch are 2 current examples not to mention Gene Haas the majority owner of Stewart Hass Racing has started an F-1 team.
IMO you have to have confidence in your own series not to fear competition. NASCAR nor F-1 have any competition.
Maybe SBI fears the loss of it's strangle hold on offshore powerboat racing & maybe they should be worried. I'd be taking a good hard look at myself & my business model in the mirror & considering what ever changes might be necessary in order to survive & grow rather than threatening to break legs if you infringe on my turf (as a figure of speech).
#28
Building something is one thing. Interfering with existing long-term business relationship is another. To me when you build something it is a little more original than what has been proposed (many people who have failed at this before with their own agenda's and baggage). Many teams have had their classes changed or eliminated. None have gone to this extant for retribution. While I see fans who are disappointed to see a team that has not regularly raced being eliminated. I have not heard from any teams that are happy with the approach the new group has taken. support among the racer's is virtually non existant at this point. As a long-term F1 fan and former APBA Offshore official I am pretty aware of the sport's limitations and limited marketability. I would welcome someone honestly trying to build something better, but starting by tearing down the sports anchor events is a curious way to start construction. For the record all of the successful motorsport franchises have been run by benevolant dictators.
But what would I know!
Carry on!
Steve
But what would I know!
Carry on!
Steve
#29
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Sounds like SBI's competitors might benefit from the formation of their own RTA (Race Team Alliance) a group that represents the best interests of the competitors, the folks that invest their hard earned $$$ & earn their livings putting on the show.
"For the record all of the successful motorsport franchises have been run by benevolant dictators. " maybe so but I'd say those days are long gone from NASCAR b/c the guy running it now is nothing more than a family name who inherited a fortune. He had a chance to earn the respect of the competitors when his father passed but instead he has chosen to chase the almighty dollar which has ultimately resulted in a consistent decline in the support of the sport, corporate sponsorship & viewership.
Professional sports is a big business, dictatorships have been left in the draft! They can't survive in today's world of transparency & government intervention.
"For the record all of the successful motorsport franchises have been run by benevolant dictators. " maybe so but I'd say those days are long gone from NASCAR b/c the guy running it now is nothing more than a family name who inherited a fortune. He had a chance to earn the respect of the competitors when his father passed but instead he has chosen to chase the almighty dollar which has ultimately resulted in a consistent decline in the support of the sport, corporate sponsorship & viewership.
Professional sports is a big business, dictatorships have been left in the draft! They can't survive in today's world of transparency & government intervention.
#30
Sounds like SBI's competitors might benefit from the formation of their own RTA (Race Team Alliance) a group that represents the best interests of the competitors, the folks that invest their hard earned $$$ & earn their livings putting on the show.
"For the record all of the successful motorsport franchises have been run by benevolant dictators. " maybe so but I'd say those days are long gone from NASCAR b/c the guy running it now is nothing more than a family name who inherited a fortune. He had a chance to earn the respect of the competitors when his father passed but instead he has chosen to chase the almighty dollar which has ultimately resulted in a consistent decline in the support of the sport, corporate sponsorship & viewership.
Professional sports is a big business, dictatorships have been left in the draft! They can't survive in today's world of transparency & government intervention.
"For the record all of the successful motorsport franchises have been run by benevolant dictators. " maybe so but I'd say those days are long gone from NASCAR b/c the guy running it now is nothing more than a family name who inherited a fortune. He had a chance to earn the respect of the competitors when his father passed but instead he has chosen to chase the almighty dollar which has ultimately resulted in a consistent decline in the support of the sport, corporate sponsorship & viewership.
Professional sports is a big business, dictatorships have been left in the draft! They can't survive in today's world of transparency & government intervention.
They have in Nascar not in F1 (F1 has much greater revenue than Nascar). But now that drivers and teams can make money. Commerce dictates common sense and a logical approach. In a ego fueled largely hobby sport like offshore common sense is less common. Either way it took a benevolent dictator to get Nascar and F1 to be the commercial success they are. offshore has almost no paid gate so the racer's are the customer and few to none are clamoring for this great new TBA opportunity. We as a group want stability more than anything else and this is a destabilizing offering at best.
Steve