Even though I had a strong suspicion that this project would go nowhere, having known about Mario Hütten and his lofty ideas about establishing a sort-of Formula 1 in the sky with him being the gliding world's Bernie Ecclestone, I still backed the project with £35 - mostly because the Swedish juniors really believed in it and I felt bad for being such an old fart with negative attitude. I already owned a copy of "Sailplane Grand Prix in the Andes" but thought that in the event that this will not fly then at least I got another copy to sell on eBay or give away in the family.
Well, the project got fully funded, I received my copy of "Sailplane Grand Prix in the Andes" and that was it - complete silence. No answers to any attempts of making contact. Mario Hütten got invited to a regional gliding conference in southern Sweden, on which he had the stomach to tell everyone that even though they got all the money they asked for they still decided to not pursue the project further because it was too little. Really. The explanation was that the project got funded by glider pilots (surprise!?) and that they decided there to be too little public interest for the project. Therefore not even the promised promo was produced - nothing.
That means that we got cheated because everyone got really into this for the promo to be produced - the other gimmicks were never of any greater interest.