Originally Posted by charlie luciano

its all well and good looking from the outside in but in essence money has got a lot to do with putting on these events, giving an example moons ago when I was involved with the RSOC at club level the southern branches of the club wanted to put on a southern regional day as apart from when Mark Sawyers did a couple of regional days at snakey lane most RSOC regional events are up north or far from reach for a lot of members from the south, Brands Hatch was one venue that was approached but if I recall correctly they wanted 40 thousand pounds for the use of the circuit and on top of that they wanted a cut of what was taken at the gate too, that is/was no small amount of money so I dread to think what silverstone want to hold ford fair and or any other events so respectfully bare that in mind before you jump to criticism