On: Good money, no team tactics and cute dogs: the ris...

[dagw]

Why not cut out the middle men and pretences and just go back to classic gladiator style fights to the death?

[Ekaros → dagw]

Motorsports do bring something extra. Just how fast machine can we build.

Gladiator fights is different thing and modern weapons make them rather boring. And somethings like biological weapons could take too long time to be effective, so you only see one person keeling over...

[shiroiushi → Ekaros]

They could go back to gladiator fights with costumes and weapons appropriate to the period (swords, maces, etc.).

[dagw → shiroiushi]

Or combine them into gladiator motorsports