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Old 26-03-2008
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I'll have a look into that Lee, see what's possible. But even right now with the neo08 it was non-stop work. I think money would be main problem with taking it to another level like you say - even for the neo we spent a lot to cover it, getting 2 laptops and a new lens so we could do the best coverage possible. Even then, we couldn't stretch to buying a wireless broadband / contract thing, and were lucky that Phil from neobuggy had one he could lend us to upload the report. It all costs money.

Part of the problem is the lack of advertising on the website - which is my fault at the moment not a lack of interest. And the other one (which is more relevent to race reports) is report specific sponsoring, like AE/LRP/REEDY with the Worlds coverage in september - every little helps. For the neo we had Fister-RC, Piespeed, RC-Pineapple and TOE RACING sponsoring the report, but since I made up these companies for a joke it didn't really pay too much

With the neo08 report we did try to get some advertising but after several knock backs I decided to give up - probably too prematurely if I'm honest. I still think we did a good job and made a fun to read report - might not appeal to everyone since it has a lot of silliness in it, but since there was no reason to keep it serious, I didn't.
I'm more than happy to consider covering more events with support, I'd love to go cover the touring car worlds later this year for instance, but that's impossible without someone basically paying our way there. Even covering the UK Nationals and smaller races isn't 'cheap' and takes a lot of work which I like to think benefits the hobby in general.
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really hoped the neo08 report would get some support after the Worlds report (which has over 100,000 views) and other coverage we did last year. But perhaps I'm not the best at self promotion and tend to just let people come to me.

Anyway - for sure I'll see about a chat thing, probably more relevent to the Euros than Nationals, but I don't think live video and audio are on the cards just yet
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