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I'm not disputing anything you or Eddie say
regarding the investment needed to creat a proper
series and I agree with you on many points. What
gets up my nose is the sad fact that even people
involved in WEC in the UK seem to concentrate on
the negative instead of the positive. Maybe I'm
naive but I've never liked to criticize unless I
could offer an viable alternative, i.e. some
constructive approach to promoting and growing
the series.
If things are so bad, where are the ideas for
change to come from? (rhetorical). Why, the WEC
community...and where can they put their views
across?...why, HERE of course!
You can be damned sure that this board is
monitored quite closely by Octagon - and that
whatever radical ideas are voiced, they would be
looked at.
But what have I seen here so far?
The forum is open and I challenge anyone to come
up with ideas to move the series forward - and
I'm asking people with a vested interest here.
Of course I want to show the WEC as a dynamic and
exciting series, that IS my job, after all - and
I am in full agreement that some kind of deal
should be struck in the future regarding the
established longer races.
I will remind people, though, that taking part in
the French rounds in the past wasn't all roses -
it meant having a series that wasn't policed
properly for all teams - if you weren't French,
you took your "control" fuel from a different
drum, etc - and the WEC was meant to create a
level playing field for all. If the French
organizers cannot play by the rules, can they be
a part of the WEC?
Yes, it would be great to have Le Mans, the Bol
etc - but in the past, "interpretation" of the
rules meant it that if you were French you could
wear green and brown and shoot from behind rocks
and trees - but everyone else had to wear red and
march in a straight line.
I totally agree with the UK not having another
WEC round. We must build a hard core in the
countries that appreciate it - though it doesn't
mean ignoring these fair isles altogether.
A couple of ideas for you all to shoot down in
flames...what are the possibilities for Ireland?
How about a six or 8 hour event as part of the TT?
Come on, someone must have ideas out there!
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I'm not disputing anything you or Eddie say
regarding the investment needed to creat a proper
series and I agree with you on many points. What
gets up my nose is the sad fact that even people
involved in WEC in the UK seem to concentrate on
the negative instead of the positive. Maybe I'm
naive but I've never liked to criticize unless I
could offer an viable alternative, i.e. some
constructive approach to promoting and growing
the series.
If things are so bad, where are the ideas for
change to come from? (rhetorical). Why, the WEC
community...and where can they put their views
across?...why, HERE of course!
You can be damned sure that this board is
monitored quite closely by Octagon - and that
whatever radical ideas are voiced, they would be
looked at.
But what have I seen here so far?
The forum is open and I challenge anyone to come
up with ideas to move the series forward - and
I'm asking people with a vested interest here.
Of course I want to show the WEC as a dynamic and
exciting series, that IS my job, after all - and
I am in full agreement that some kind of deal
should be struck in the future regarding the
established longer races.
I will remind people, though, that taking part in
the French rounds in the past wasn't all roses -
it meant having a series that wasn't policed
properly for all teams - if you weren't French,
you took your "control" fuel from a different
drum, etc - and the WEC was meant to create a
level playing field for all. If the French
organizers cannot play by the rules, can they be
a part of the WEC?
Yes, it would be great to have Le Mans, the Bol
etc - but in the past, "interpretation" of the
rules meant it that if you were French you could
wear green and brown and shoot from behind rocks
and trees - but everyone else had to wear red and
march in a straight line.
I totally agree with the UK not having another
WEC round. We must build a hard core in the
countries that appreciate it - though it doesn't
mean ignoring these fair isles altogether.
A couple of ideas for you all to shoot down in
flames...what are the possibilities for Ireland?
How about a six or 8 hour event as part of the TT?
Come on, someone must have ideas out there!
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