secsy1 Posted Tuesday at 09:20 AM Author Report Share Posted Tuesday at 09:20 AM 39 minutes ago, Ray Stadia said: As Coventry staged a GP in the past and successfully, as I recall, perhaps the GP organisers could have taken the opportunity to try and buy the stadium, to have as a British GP 'flagship', but with Belle Vue as a second British GP venue? Absolute practical solution, but remember something so simple would never work, remember this is Speedway 🤣 2 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sir Sidney Posted Tuesday at 10:45 AM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 10:45 AM (edited) 2 hours ago, Ray Stadia said: As Coventry staged a GP in the past and successfully, as I recall, perhaps the GP organisers could have taken the opportunity to try and buy the stadium, to have as a British GP 'flagship', but with Belle Vue as a second British GP venue? Why do you think the stadium owners would have any interest in selling to WBD when they have shown no interest in selling to anyone else? Edited Tuesday at 10:46 AM by Sir Sidney Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gambo Posted Tuesday at 11:35 AM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 11:35 AM 2 hours ago, Ray Stadia said: As Coventry staged a GP in the past and successfully, as I recall, perhaps the GP organisers could have taken the opportunity to try and buy the stadium, to have as a British GP 'flagship', but with Belle Vue as a second British GP venue? The Stadium was not put 'on the market as a Sports facility' when the Bank forced the sale. I'm led to believe that there was also a bit of 'insider trading/dodgy dealing' shall we say before Brandon Estates got the Stadium. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ray Stadia Posted Tuesday at 01:01 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 01:01 PM 2 hours ago, Sir Sidney said: Why do you think the stadium owners would have any interest in selling to WBD when they have shown no interest in selling to anyone else? I don't know, but corporates talking to corporates might have more sway than action groups talking to corporates? Surely the stadium is a bit of a 'thorn in the side' for BE? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted Tuesday at 08:17 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 08:17 PM 8 hours ago, Gambo said: The Stadium was not put 'on the market as a Sports facility' when the Bank forced the sale. I'm led to believe that there was also a bit of 'insider trading/dodgy dealing' shall we say before Brandon Estates got the Stadium. There was no insider trading simply because it was a deal done between two private companies. One, who had originally acquired the stadium for housing development but had a change of plan plan and one (another developer) who was offered the stadium/land when the incumbent ran out of available capital. What followed from then up to the present day is well known. 🤷♂️ One things for sure is that a tv company would not be remotely interested in acquiring Brandon to stage one or two GP meetings. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted Tuesday at 08:34 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 08:34 PM 11 hours ago, Ray Stadia said: As Coventry staged a GP in the past and successfully, as I recall, perhaps the GP organisers could have taken the opportunity to try and buy the stadium, to have as a British GP 'flagship', but with Belle Vue as a second British GP venue? Unfortunately a none goer from the start as no TV company would see any financial benefit in doing as you suggest. The reason? Besides running stadiums is not their core activity, to buy Brandon, remove the existing derelict building & then build something capable of holding a GP akin to BV would cost in the region of ten million pounds. This type of investment would require a return (profit) of at least one million pounds per year before inflation - which of course is just not feasible. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted Tuesday at 09:09 PM Report Share Posted Tuesday at 09:09 PM (edited) 36 minutes ago, 1 valve said: Unfortunately a none goer from the start as no TV company would see any financial benefit in doing as you suggest. The reason? Besides running stadiums is not their core activity, to buy Brandon, remove the existing derelict building & then build something capable of holding a GP akin to BV would cost in the region of ten million pounds. This type of investment would require a return (profit) of at least one million pounds per year before inflation - which of course is just not feasible. BSI already tried something similar with the running of Reading "Bulldogs" (i.e. getting involved in British Speedway) and they couldn't even make that pay and that was without buying Smallmead. A global company like WBD ain't going to go near British Speedway. A pity as perhaps an investment in grass roots Speedway in all countries (except Poland of course) is what is needed to grow the GP series as a token running of a SGP3 & SGP4 once a year isn't going to cut it. If they're not prepared to really invest in the sport I'm not quite sure why they got involved. Edited Tuesday at 09:12 PM by IainB Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
1 valve Posted Wednesday at 08:23 AM Report Share Posted Wednesday at 08:23 AM (edited) 11 hours ago, IainB said: If they're not prepared to really invest in the sport I'm not quite sure why they got involved. Their involvement is to acquire content for their TV channels and generate income from advertising & sub-licensing. Unfortunately unlike other sports shown on TV such as football/Rugby/Cricket/Darts/Snooker/MotoGP/etc. there is insufficient money involved to actually feed down to grass roots or actually promote & grow the sport to a wider audience. Edited Wednesday at 08:25 AM by 1 valve 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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IainB Posted 13 hours ago Report Share Posted 13 hours ago 7 minutes ago, secsy1 said: What an interesting photo to "choose" for that particular story 🤷♂️ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chadster Posted 9 hours ago Report Share Posted 9 hours ago 4 hours ago, secsy1 said: Shame they can't spell Principality. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IainB Posted 7 hours ago Report Share Posted 7 hours ago 2 hours ago, Chadster said: Shame they can't spell Principality. It's the Welsh spelling 😂 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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