2003 Slough euros in 1/8th was budgeted at 18K, it landed up costing more than that and had to borrow money from BRCA to fund it. It took 3-4 years to pay that debt back. Any worlds would cost more (subject to entry numbers)
A point i've been holding back on is that if you were to ask the IFMAR chairman 'would you like to have any worlds in USA?', he would probably say 'No thank you'. The USA may have the most of the best racers, the market share and some great tracks, but when it comes to running to the rules, things are very lacking. Their last 2 attempts to host the 1/8th off road worlds have been pretty poor.
If boycotting a worlds because people THINK its unsafe, is a way of telling IFMAR what we think, then we should also boycott countries who we KNOW are not able to run events to the rules. That said, take away the rule book and USA clubs run great events.
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