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
without a doubt Jim I agree the levels now are just telephone numbers to the masses, I remember looking into that RSOC day at snakey lane and it would have been branch suicide in costs and red tape, I know times move on as I enjoy my 5pot volvo and after recently attending goodwood and silverstone classics you certainly see where the money is these days, Jamie King has been a good guy in organisation and trying to encourage the cossie guys back was a good move, maybe its a mix of me getting older I dont know but the show is losing that must attend drawer it once had, btw the mk2 RS is as cool as fuck the mk3 is in its shadow