Quatar to pay $73 million to host GP?
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mollytherocker said:
Heres my fix.
Let F1 go to all the new countires and tracks. Outer Mongolia Grand Prix?
WEC increased to 10 races using all of the classic tracks including Monaco!
I would drop F1 in an instant.
Imagine if WEC also got the press and TV coverage F1 gathers? Nobody would look sideways at the Bernie show.Let F1 go to all the new countires and tracks. Outer Mongolia Grand Prix?
WEC increased to 10 races using all of the classic tracks including Monaco!
I would drop F1 in an instant.
Fire99 said:
Money has been gradually eroding the quality of F1 for years. Fortunately for many of us, since F1 was in the most part still the reserve of Europe and its historic great tracks, it took quite a while for the corporate 'circus' to dilute the racing too much.
Now it seems with it now pushing into the far east etc, the tracks / facilities are effectively a process by numbers and injecting a great wad of cash into them.
End result is characterless, dull tracks with vast facilities and corporate entertaining.
Past the point of no return I'd wager..
Oh what a load of arse that bears not a jot of truth. Hast thou never heard of Tripoli? That is the ultimate in terms of money/GP racing/ruination stories!Now it seems with it now pushing into the far east etc, the tracks / facilities are effectively a process by numbers and injecting a great wad of cash into them.
End result is characterless, dull tracks with vast facilities and corporate entertaining.
Past the point of no return I'd wager..
Corporate to dilute the racing? Big Auto Union and Merc state funded teams that pretty much wiped everyone else away pre war?
Same again in 54 & 55 ?
Ferrari's manipulation of the rules early 50s to ensure it was pretty much Ferrari only victories.
We used to have the Tasman series. Now gone.
Racing in South America...now gone apart from Brazil.
Japan and Aus have always been big partners.
The racing has always been world wide. It has always been the preserve of the rich.
I for one hope they get it!
Bahrains contract expires in 2016 and I havent read anywhere it is going to be renewed, Bernie has said he'd happily extend it but I've not seen anything formally announced. Maybe Qatar can steal it from them, all the circuit needs is the grandstands and infrastructure upgrading which is a relatively short and easy to achieve process.
Bahrains contract expires in 2016 and I havent read anywhere it is going to be renewed, Bernie has said he'd happily extend it but I've not seen anything formally announced. Maybe Qatar can steal it from them, all the circuit needs is the grandstands and infrastructure upgrading which is a relatively short and easy to achieve process.
suffolk009 said:
mollytherocker said:
Heres my fix.
Let F1 go to all the new countires and tracks. Outer Mongolia Grand Prix?
WEC increased to 10 races using all of the classic tracks including Monaco!
I would drop F1 in an instant.
Imagine if WEC also got the press and TV coverage F1 gathers? Nobody would look sideways at the Bernie show.Let F1 go to all the new countires and tracks. Outer Mongolia Grand Prix?
WEC increased to 10 races using all of the classic tracks including Monaco!
I would drop F1 in an instant.
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suffolk009 said:
mollytherocker said:
Heres my fix.
Let F1 go to all the new countires and tracks. Outer Mongolia Grand Prix?
WEC increased to 10 races using all of the classic tracks including Monaco!
I would drop F1 in an instant.
Imagine if WEC also got the press and TV coverage F1 gathers? Nobody would look sideways at the Bernie show.Let F1 go to all the new countires and tracks. Outer Mongolia Grand Prix?
WEC increased to 10 races using all of the classic tracks including Monaco!
I would drop F1 in an instant.
Gad-Westy said:
suffolk009 said:
mollytherocker said:
Heres my fix.
Let F1 go to all the new countires and tracks. Outer Mongolia Grand Prix?
WEC increased to 10 races using all of the classic tracks including Monaco!
I would drop F1 in an instant.
Imagine if WEC also got the press and TV coverage F1 gathers? Nobody would look sideways at the Bernie show.Let F1 go to all the new countires and tracks. Outer Mongolia Grand Prix?
WEC increased to 10 races using all of the classic tracks including Monaco!
I would drop F1 in an instant.
carinaman said:
Besides Rosberg's car failing the last GP was pretty boring. Interlagos never seems to have a boring F1 race. F1 is shooting itself in the foot going to circuits like Abu Dhabi for the final race, that may be a decider when it could have gone to Interlagos IMO.
Given stuff like this, and the comments about respect for labourers and Human Rights why would VW Audi want their brand anywhere near F1?
Going back to their roots?Given stuff like this, and the comments about respect for labourers and Human Rights why would VW Audi want their brand anywhere near F1?
Gaz. said:
While they own Mclaren, the Bahrain GP will remain on the calender.
Minority share holders of an F1 team in a country with vast political issues against a country with a blank cheque to contribute to F1?... nobody knows how it will pan out not even the mad hatter Ecclestone Gaz. said:
TobyLaRohne said:
Minority share holders of an F1 team in a country with vast political issues against a country with a blank cheque to contribute to F1?... nobody knows how it will pan out not even the mad hatter Ecclestone
They own 50%.PART shareholders in an F1 team in a country with vast political issues where the F1 is deeply unpopular with locals and where the ruling family give more of a crap about maintaining power and staying in favour with the locals than keeping an F1 race versus a country with a blank cheque to contribute to F1?... nobody knows how it will pan out not even the mad-hatter Ecclestone.
I just hope they propose the F1 to be at a different venue from Losail, otherwise they'll have to close it in order to fix it up and that means no motorsport in Qatar for a bit.
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