AlexPate

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I asked and they confirmed. It's due to the outbreak of the plague, there is also rumor that yokomo is not going for the same reason.

EDWARD2003

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I guess South Africa has a big issue with the Ebola virus...

LloydLoar

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There have only been two confirmed cases of Ebola in South Africa, both roughly 22 years ago. The Ebola excuse is bullshit.

EDIT: I think the plague excuse is bullshit too and can't help but think that people are just looking for convenient excuses to not attend.

thisguy2849

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I would venture to guess that the reason for not attending is the concerns of public safety that have been expressed since the announcement of the race being there

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A scare of an evolved form of the Bubonic Plague was alerted around a year ago. IFMAR would have had plenty of time to change venues if they followed current events, or if they felt this was a health concern.

Even if one was given inoculations and quarantine, why would anyone want to spend a week at a potential health hazard, if they didn't have to?

LloydLoar

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Given that these are paid professionals driving for one of the largest current teams in the world, why do you say they don't have to attend?

XCELL

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thisguy2849

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They dont have to go if the team decides not to send them. Idk if you have ever seen Infinity at a race but it's a huge group of support guys as well as the drivers.

TryHard

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Funny how a bit of research shows no current warnings in place for SA for Bubonic Plague (treatable with antibiotics btw) or Ebola... WHO | South Africa (click news and features)

cplus

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LloydLoar

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I think you are missing my point. I am commenting on both the team and the drivers. The team shouldn't be giving them the out and the drivers should be telling the team they need to go. This is worlds. Unless they already think the car isn't good enough to contest for the win so they (meaning both the team and the drivers) are content to make excuses? lol.

I can understand that this is likely a more expensive worlds in terms of travel fees, but the conversation isn't about a reduced team being able to attend. The conversation is about Infinity straight up saying they aren't going and using bullshit reasons as their excuse. That bothers me when Antonio has worked his ass off to try and put on a good worlds, because now there will always be the asterisk that Infinity (including individuals like Marc, Naoto, etc.) didn't attend. Providing, of course, that they hold true to what they have been telling people thus far.

thisguy2849

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Not really sure if you know who the owner of Infinity is or not but I assure you money is not an issue for him. There has been a ton of chatter since day one of announcing the location of this event. Like it's been stated, the safety concerns is the base of why teams and drivers are going to choose to skip the event. It sucks because the promoter has definitely spent a lot of time and money to host the event. And the EP world and nitro sedan worlds aren't that far apart so a lot of Infintys focus is going to the nitro side.

ScottZ

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hey Alex how is this car on gray carpet thinking about buying one from you i like to try different cars maybe just needs different springs?

RC MARKET

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Had news INF1NITY this month don't join ISTC ,
but not have confirm in this moment.

beyondthepack

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huh?