Al,
'You really shouldn't try and justify some miserable bastards antics just because it's in the name of profit in any business.'
I don't get paranoid about people making a profit from a road race meeting, as long as the attempt to get a crowd is there.
Most of our Motorcycling Australia affiliated clubs do not run open road race meetings these days. If we race, because there is virtually no spectator following there is no gate money taken, so there is nothing to defray the circuit hire costs. It gets passed on to the competitors. The fella I mentioned actually runs a very good race meeting, however these days the classes are mixed at all events, so we never see really good racing. When I was racing regularly, I rarely rode a two stroke, however the good guys all had them and by default the grids all contained bikes of a certain similarity. The racing was always worth watching. I despair of ever seeing a good old-fashioned road race ever again. Standing by the side of any freeway, you can see better racing than what we have on circuits.
