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January 11th, 2010 05:30 PM #11
Lately, the finished construction of the Clark International Speedway has given aspiring racers and weekend trackday nuts something to cheer about - CIS is a good addition to the local circuit roster of Subic International Raceway and Batangas Racing Circuit.
Sadly though, car racing is an expensive hobby/profession, and much also depends on how well the race driver can attract sponsorship money. If you've followed Formula 1's "silly season" over the years, you'll be familiar with this trade-off of sponsorship money over pure driving skill.
Looking beyond drifting and more into motorsport in general, you'll be surprised at what lengths the motorsport aficionados have gone to for the love of racing. Top Gear Philippines has already covered the local hillclimb series races on closed-off public mountain roads since 2007. Autocross/gymkhana is also a good venue for developing talent, partly because all you need are a lot of safety cones to make a course and an open stretch of asphalt.
I think the major challenge for increasing sponsorship is to make local motorsport marketable to Juan dela Cruz. The crowd is admittedly pretty small, probably because most people think you need to blow wads of cash on a good car to be competitive. That's probably true for drag racing and/or drifting (one does need money for tires), but in autocross and RWYB/trackdays, driving skill matters much much more. These events are exactly how one could bring motorsport to the magic grassroots level.
Exactly how one can get racing well off the streets and onto the racetracks, as well as increasing the viewership, will determine the future success of local motorsport.
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