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22 Jun 2012, 12:35 (Ref:3096384) | #1 | ||
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yes please ... I know this is old but i only just found it ... wtf ?
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Yup. We see 223 MPH (359 KPH) quite often on twisting street circuits with lots of 90+ degree bends. Oh, wait. No, we don't. Quote:
Wow, we're smashing records left and right. 270,000 people at a single F1 race? Has any F1 event even come close to this? That sounds like attendance at an enormous superspeedway flanked by massive grandstands, and not something winding around on city streets. |
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That may be 'just' a student project, but it's not the only project, and this one has more commercial backing.
The Daily Telegraph's Friday (22nd June) issue included a two page article on a bid to lease the Olympic Park and stadium for a London Grand Prix. Intelligent Transport Systems Ltd. has placed a bid with the London Legacy Development Corporation, responsible for post-Games use for the Olympic facilities, and Bernie Eccleston has confirmed that he was consulted by ITS before they made their bid. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/mot...ould-work.html Still seems unlikely, but then so does Monaco. JOhn |
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Indeed only Indanapolis comes close with attendances near 250.000 people.
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If we are to have a European GP held in the UK, then it should be in Birmingham in the centre of the country where everyone has a chance of getting to it with ease. Not around some dump docklands which is a nightmare to get to. London GP, no thanks.
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have you ever been on the M6 around Birmingham at rush hour? =crush hour john |
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Birmingham isn't exactly the middle of "the country". The country in F1 terms is Great Britain not England.
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Pax, Scotty!
The "European" Grand prix is usually a stop gap, when something prevents a scheduled GP elsewhere happening, or other wise a second GP is held ina counry that has one already. The UK GP is held at Silverstone, not Knockhill, and a London GP would be "European". Euro Gps ahve been at, Velencia, yesterday and four times before, Jerez, Donington and Brands Hatch, none of which are excatly at the cnetre of Europe. But also at the Nurburgring GpP circuit which could be argued to be cnetral, or at least a lot more so. John |
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I'm well aware of the history of the European GP. However it's history has nothing to do with my post.
My response was to the quoted post relating to it being in " Birmingham in the centre of the country" |
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True, but then Scotland is not well provided with motorsport circuits.
It could be said to have cities as well suited to an urban GP as any English town, but would the people come? I've been in series that went to Oulton Park and Croft, my nearest circuits. The dripping and whingeing from the other, southen-based contestants, was so deafening that Croft, at least, was dropped. That I had to travel as far as they or further, every time they went to Brands or Silverstone, let alone Snetterton, wasn't a consideration! Hey, if you get an independent Scotland, can Cumbria join? John PS Strike "North West UK", insert North West England"? Prepare for "South West Scotland? |
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Would it have to be a motorsports circuit, given that currently I believe that Silverstone is the only Grade 1 in the UK ... I've long be an advocate that if there were to be specifically a London GP then RAF Northolt could be utilised.
Here is a Link going back to 2007 in which I mention Northolt. If a second GP were to be Run in the UK, as a street circuit I have no issue with it being in Birmingham. Again to be clear... my issue was the assertion that Birmingham was in the middle of the Country. |
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Please don't take this as a political statement, nothing could be further from my mind but it is interesting and important if you work in logistics. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_of_population Actually for me that means the Northern half of the UK is not so flippin' crowded and therefore clearly better. |
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28 Jun 2012, 09:56 (Ref:3099329) | #16 | |
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London GP to get support from Bernie?
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/100760 What is making him feel generous in his old age considering everyone else pays millions for a GP, and he's going to pay for one in London!!!! |
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Bernie being all nice and friendly. Maybe it has something to do with keeping the 'tax man' off his back? (allegedly)
"You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours". |
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Where there is smoke there is fire..
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According to the Autosport TV video podcast, it could be several years before there's a London GP during which time Bernie may have shuffled off this mortal coil.
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Hah, the FIA will never sanction that track. The safety brigade would have kittens.
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A London GP looks to have the backing of BCE ok as there is to be an event in London tonight to promote the idea attended by Bernie, Jenson Button & Lewis Hamilton.
http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1/...acks-London-GP It was initally reported in the Times http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/news/ you need to register to get the link. |
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28 Jun 2012, 20:19 (Ref:3099589) | #24 | |
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I wonder is this to have another go at Silverstone, as I am wondering why Bernie is putting his cash behind it?
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HMRC taking an interest and "talking" to Bernie. Prime Minister Cameron and Chancellor Osborne both declare tax avoidance "immoral" (despite Cameron's father having made a fortune from just that...) What better time for a bit of diversionary philanthropy? I've got a feeling it might not work though, the Bavarian prosecutors are still on the case... |
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