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I did find one place that said 5.5km, but there's no diagram to go with it to try and verify anything.
Was there anything printed on the masterplan that I might have missed? I also realize, if the track is 5.5km, or thereabouts, that start/finish straight will be VERY long; I mean, it looks like about a quarter of the total lap distance. |
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In the light of Bernie's talk of a USA round, can I bump this and suggest that, looking at Google Earth, it looks like the circuit isn't that well in progress, and may not happen. Perhaps Bernie's talk of the street race in New York is a bit of a hurry-up ...
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Google Earth's images aren't exactly live, though, are they?
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Of course.
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The Indian government is completely sensible and correct not to funnel tonnes of public funds into Bernie's back pocket. As for the track, I will wait and see as you never really know until it exists as a finished product you see some races on it. From the layout map thing, it looks remarkably uninspiring (although it doesn't scream evil at you).
Do we have any confirmation on how long it is? |
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5.5km is what I heard.
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So with all the chaos around the Commonwealth games, I wonder if Bernie is happy about his back to turn his back on traditional venues in his attempt to take F1 to places who dont care about F1
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cool story bro alert - the company i work for is currently in the middle of a project involving the construction of a factory in a city in india. the story has been exactly the same as the commonwealth games venues. it will be ready. you must send the equipment for installation. we will finish the factory in 3 weeks. but it takes 4 weeks for the concrete to cure adequately in good weather let alone the middle of the monsoon. there are people working 24 hours a day. there is clearly no-one at the site. and so on.
bearing in mind they have been working through the monsoon at the circuit site it would be inappropriate to compare the circuit progress with say, koreas progress at the number of months before the event is due to take place. but if i were bernie i'd be sending people there with 4 months to go to do some serious analysis of the project and making sure everything is on track according to an external organisations expectations rather than the local contractors... |
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A good point, which I think that begs the question, is the Indian Grand Prix necessary?
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India was a big mistake. The country lacks the experience and infrastructure to host a world class event. Just look at the mess they are making of the commonwealth games.
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South Korea appears to be in the balance, so what is the point? Global domination by F1; the empire on which the sun never sets?
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There are more than 2x the amount of people living in India compared to the whole of europe. Of course its an important location for a race. And even tho the majority of the people in India are poor, with over 1 billion inhabitants, im sure you'd be able to find enough rich people to fill up a formula one venue :P
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India is a highly populated country with enormous potential but it has huge extremes of poverty and the infrastructure problems are immense.
I know this from prsonal experience on the ground there. The recent Commonwealth games criticism is valid and should not come as a surprise. Incompetence and corruption seem endemic. How that will affect the project remains to be seen. |
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