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July 2002
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Re: Subaru rally team australia withdraw from rallying
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Wed, 02 November 2005 14:31
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As for it making 'more sense' for them to focus on the tarmac events... well I'd say both yes and no. The tarmac rallying scene is fairly scarce at the moment, and there are plenty of events that are struggling along (East Coast Classic) or have recently lost some of the top people guiding it (Targa Tasmania for example). So it's no bed of roses.
If Subaru expect that they can just hop into tarmac events and suddenly get more, or more cost effective, exposure then they are totally wrong.
Targa Tasmania, East Coast Classic, Classic Adelaide, Targa New Zealnd etc all attract big fields, but aren't that hotly contested. Each category will only have a few big names going for the top, and as for any sense of yearly championship, well people know less about any tarmac rallying championships than they do about the ARC.
Sure Subaru had to spend alot of money to get the ARC on TV, and they had laid alot of groundwork to build up the ARC and to make it bigger and better. *But* now they've decided to bail, and they will have to spend that money *all* over again to prop up Tarmac rallying's level of exposure, which if you ask me, is just dumb.
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