Dittoreally. When I sponsored some riders via Adopt a racer I did it to help them out and get free entry to circuits
But the side result was I got about 5 clients from it which was a bonus, paid for the sponsorship and enabled me to increase the amount I gave.
The reason I dropped one rider was because I never knew his results or got any feedback. In fact the start of this season I did not even know whether he was racing and if he was which championship! The other 2 sent emails and/or text messages for qualifying and the races.