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View Poll Results: Which track will be added to the 2016 WEC calendar? | |||
Montreal | 10 | 16.13% | |
Mexico City | 9 | 14.52% | |
Monza | 23 | 37.10% | |
Interlagos | 14 | 22.58% | |
Other, .... [please name] | 6 | 9.68% | |
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20 Aug 2015, 18:14 (Ref:3567298) | #51 | ||
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Yeah I knew I should've cropped the cars out of the beautiful scenery
Though I do think that DPG1 was slightly less uglier than G2 |
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Replace word unrealistic with impossible
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20 Aug 2015, 19:52 (Ref:3567326) | #55 | |
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most of the private teams are european, and however all are based in europe; if there will be added extra rounds, there should be added at least one other in europe and another one that won't require an extra ship/travel.
It woul be great a race in monza in mid july after le mans and/or a final season double dash in middle east like bahrein/abu dhabi 3 weeks later, it won't be bad also a japanese back to back with suzuka and fuji (very unlikely not being honda involved in WEC). mid april silverstone early may spa mid june le mans mid july monza (somewhere else however in europe) late august nurburgring mid/late september COTA mid october fuji late october shangai mid november bahrein late november abu dhabi |
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20 Aug 2015, 20:00 (Ref:3567330) | #56 | |
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Twin Middle Eastern finale would surely be... very... popular...
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20 Aug 2015, 20:03 (Ref:3567331) | #57 | |
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just another f1 style copycat exercise
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20 Aug 2015, 20:09 (Ref:3567335) | #58 | |
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Well the two circuits (or rather the Crown Princes) could compete on who hands more cash to the ACO to host the season finale, and which has more cardboard cutouts to fill the stands faster, that sort of competition would be about as exciting as watching F1.
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20 Aug 2015, 21:41 (Ref:3567352) | #59 | ||
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The factories will probably like your 'twin Middle East finale' idea however. |
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21 Aug 2015, 03:41 (Ref:3567398) | #60 | |
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Do you really have to add stuff like this? Bahrain isnt in Europe or America, so of course attendance will be lower! The fact that even 4k people showed up is amazing considering only 1.3 million people live in the country. Compared to Shanghai attendance of 45,000 from China's 1.3 billion thats a good ratio. Especially so considering the humanitarian issues both countries have.
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21 Aug 2015, 03:49 (Ref:3567402) | #61 | |||
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And you need to understand the point I'm making..... Even if the racing was good from an anoraks perspective, there was little other draw to the circuit or racing. The Peugeot/Audi years kicked off everything, and built the momentum for what we have now... Without those fights, without any of that, we'd likely not be where we are now. |
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21 Aug 2015, 05:39 (Ref:3567419) | #62 | |
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Because getting what you want always come with strings attached I suggest Miller Motorsport Park. At least ACO will meet halfway America and China.
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21 Aug 2015, 08:18 (Ref:3567443) | #63 | ||
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And as for 4000 being 'amazing', the round presents the entire Middle East, not just the island. And even if it didn't, 4000 is still nothing, making comparisons to countrys total population is pointless The last sentence I don't even know why it is there |
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21 Aug 2015, 09:05 (Ref:3567451) | #64 | |
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attendance isn't a issue to me... during interlagos races, stands were basically empty and none cared about...
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21 Aug 2015, 10:59 (Ref:3567464) | #65 | |
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21 Aug 2015, 11:08 (Ref:3567467) | #66 | ||
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I too would move Silverstone to after Le Mans in the summer. I would think it could become a real event with lots of camping over the race week. I would start the season in Bahrain - just because of the weather. |
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21 Aug 2015, 12:09 (Ref:3567470) | #67 | |
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Imola too narrow? Interesting comment.
But then again that was the year of 50 car grids and Audis crashing into Ferraris (and not only at LM) |
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21 Aug 2015, 12:38 (Ref:3567476) | #68 | ||
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Well the problem with Imola is that pretty much every single corner only has one racing line, you can not go 2 wide anywhere and therefore from a drivers perspective its a very narrow track.
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21 Aug 2015, 13:37 (Ref:3567489) | #69 | ||
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Yes, you are correct, no caution for the full 6 hours with only 50 cars or so on track, I do remember Kristensen being run wide thru the Tamburello dirt by one of the Pugs (I would like to think it was Montagny but the others weren't shy of it either) with the race ending in a convincing Peugeot 1-2. Perfect weather that weekend as well, especially with the monsoon on Friday afternoon! I guess Imola is just fine with it's ELMS race these days, less spotlights and probably more enjoyable therefor. |
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21 Aug 2015, 15:30 (Ref:3567510) | #70 | |
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I think Interlagos will not return for, at least, several years. The hosting fee was been paid by Emerson Fittipaldi but he had massive losses due to low attendance. Imo, the "they'll be working on the track to improve the facilities" used for saying it's not on this year's calendar is nothing but an excuse. Afterall, isn't Uncle Bernie's circus visiting the circuit this year?
Hope Canadian public money doesn't go to paying WEC's fee. A very boring circuit comprised of awful slow-high-kerbed chicanes and a hairpin. You don't built prototype cars, with decent amount of downforce, to be climbing slow corners' kerbs. LMP1/2s needs tracks like Silverstone and Spa(lot's of high speed corners) Don't see why there would be a event on Mexico as the only reason F1 will be back there is because of Mexican driver(s) being there in the last few years. Don't see any appeal for WEC on Mexico. Motorsport(specially endurance racing) is not super popular in Italy. F1 has been losing massive amount of viewers there(see graph bellow), so I don't see a WEC race happening. I read in the begining of the year that the first couple of 2015 GPs were under 1 million viewers on Italy. In Germany, the huge drops regarding F1 tv ratings are similar(year on year decrease since 2009). I'm far from sure Nurburgring is a safe event, btw. We'll have to wait but I suspect grandstands will be empty... Last edited by Artur; 21 Aug 2015 at 15:36. |
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21 Aug 2015, 20:21 (Ref:3567560) | #71 | ||
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As for that last sentence... You dont know why human rights issues has an influence on things like motorsport attendance? But you've mentioned this plenty of times before. |
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21 Aug 2015, 20:23 (Ref:3567561) | #72 | |
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Has sportscar racing always been fairly popular in Germany? Since the sixties there has been nearly always been a German contender for victory at LeMans. There was also the Interserie that was mostly based in Germany. It was only in the Schumacher era that F1 became popular there.
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21 Aug 2015, 20:41 (Ref:3567565) | #73 | ||
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All choices would be more intriguing to me than at least 2 of the current circuits.
Mexico City my choice because of the aforementioned "F1 following". Not sure they'd go back to Interlogos after not going this year... Last edited by fieldodreams79; 21 Aug 2015 at 20:53. |
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