SWC 2026 location

[Shockster]

As Neutral a track as you can get.  Good choice.  Have a Semi in Scandinavia & one in the UK and should get decent crowds.

[Wee Eck]

On 1/18/2025 at 10:00 PM, Shockster said:

As Neutral a track as you can get.  Good choice.  Have a Semi in Scandinavia & one in the UK and should get decent crowds.

The qualifiers have often been poorly attended - there were almost more people in the pits in Wrocław than the stands for the qualifiers. So it makes sense to stage the qualifiers each with a home team, so that would be GB and Denmark. But, for logistical reasons, not in the week of the final.

GB should be either NSS (though there might be a GP there in 2026) or Glasgow

[ozzie]

2 minutes ago, Wee Eck said:

The qualifiers have often been poorly attended - there were almost more people in the pits in Wrocław than the stands for the qualifiers. So it makes sense to stage the qualifiers each with a home team, so that would be GB and Denmark. But, for logistical reasons, not in the week of the final.

GB should be either NSS (though there might be a GP there in 2026) or Glasgow

Don't think the money nor effort nor ability to do this, but just my thought. They will also want qualifying close to the final night. Think smaller city track or tracks during the week or at best the weekend prior. 

[Wee Eck]

1 minute ago, ozzie said:

Don't think the money nor effort nor ability to do this, but just my thought. They will also want qualifying close to the final night. Think smaller city track or tracks during the week or at best the weekend prior. 

I reckon Gladgoe would get a crowd of 2000 if GB involved. Nowhere in Poland would attract that sort of number if Poland not involved. Wrocław didn’t make 2000 in total for the three qualifiers. Nothing like it. Similarly, the NSS for the SoN had maybe a thousand in total for the qualifiers and maybe 1200 for the under 21 SoN final - when GB was involved.