Nordschleife and Nurburgring Prices released - Page 3

shane@mbtech · 09-01-2011, 08:11 PM

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Originally Posted by glendog74

No.

But the thing is this Shane, the Ring diehards like T$ and I used to like to go out there midweek and get some quality track time in on the midweek days before staying out there for a weekend and seeing what you could get from that.

End result? Lots of regular punters who stay for more than just 2 days many times per year and who also don't mind too much if the track isn't too great over the weekend because they've had good track time already in the week. Punter and local hotels/businesses happy!

Current situation: No midweek days and everyone is crammed into shitty weekends which are invariably rammed solid and shut a lot of the time. Punter has a greater risk of not getting any good track time & is not happy - local businesses lose out on money. End result (in my personal case) Punter reluctat to return as much as they used to...

Make sense?

I completely understand this Rob, and I did before I posted mate.

They are short sighted and are not thinking of the long term, they are trying to maximise short term income to recoup losses.

By having it crammed, they will make far far more money on the amenities, the closures wont bother them as they charge the punter who crashed anyway to cover lost time, most will have already bought laps by this point, so whilst waiting they will go in the cafe, by some expensive lunch, £5 cup of coffee etc etc. The track is shut for the day and lots of punters go home with lots of unused laps on the card never to be used again.

They will ruin it in the longterm.

merell900 · 09-01-2011, 09:03 PM

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Originally Posted by lawsy

I completely understand this Rob, and I did before I posted mate.

They are short sighted and are not thinking of the long term, they are trying to maximise short term income to recoup losses.

By having it crammed, they will make far far more money on the amenities, the closures wont bother them as they charge the punter who crashed anyway to cover lost time, most will have already bought laps by this point, so whilst waiting they will go in the cafe, by some expensive lunch, £5 cup of coffee etc etc. The track is shut for the day and lots of punters go home with lots of unused laps on the card never to be used again.

They will ruin it in the longterm.

They won´t charge for closure in 2011