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I hope you all don't base your opinions of Americans off the 3 people that post on here. I would bet that most here feel the same as you. Everyone wishes the race to be in their backyard.

As far as top racers not attending, most are paid drivers and their sponsors or employers pay their way to go. If our own embassy says its a bad idea to go there and they are sent anyway, think of the liabilities should something happen had they sent them there. Its not that its an excuse, the drivers all wanted to go. Simply a business decision.

ROAR is US and Canada... There are a couple of reasons the race is always in the US when it comes to ROAR bloc... Up untill the past few years, there haven't really been many if any tracks in Canada. With few tracks the chance of one capable to hold a worlds is not very likely. Also, 99 percent of ROAR members are in the US.

Also I may be wrong, but I think your perceptions of how the worlds are chosen are incorrect. The Blocs choose the host, not IFMAR. so if it is in ROAR for example, ROAR accepts bids from tracks within ROAR and then The committee for ROAR chooses the best one suitable for the event. In FAMAR, really it was their turn in the rotation, how can the deciding people deny their members to have the race? All of you wish that it was in your backyard, don't you think the members of FAMAR feel the same way?

Just my $.02 (That btw is worth more than it did 2 years ago, Haha!)