Save Monza petition (not just the banking)
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This isn't just the banking it's the whole circuit this time.
http://forums.autosport.com/showthrea
Bloody nimbys, if they think racing cars are too loud why on earth did they buy their "cheap" property next to a racing circuit in the first place.
The only events being held there this year are the WTCC (April), Superbikes (May) and F1 in September. There appear to be some testing sessions but already the races this weekend have been cancelled.
http://forums.autosport.com/showthrea
Bloody nimbys, if they think racing cars are too loud why on earth did they buy their "cheap" property next to a racing circuit in the first place.
The only events being held there this year are the WTCC (April), Superbikes (May) and F1 in September. There appear to be some testing sessions but already the races this weekend have been cancelled.
Don't know if this is significant but I was planning a trip to Italy this year and enquired about the Monza Historic Festival as it looked like a good event to visit.
I just received this e-mail from the track...
We regret to inform you that the 2006 Coppa Intereuropa - Historic Festival event will not take place.
Best regards
Nicoletta Dominici
Ufficio Sportivo
I just received this e-mail from the track...
We regret to inform you that the 2006 Coppa Intereuropa - Historic Festival event will not take place.
Best regards
Nicoletta Dominici
Ufficio Sportivo
About time the FIA took some serious action, I've said it before: Cancel Italian and San Marino GPs with immediate effect. Resultant panic from Italian Motorsport Federation will lobby Govt into changing the ruling (a few quid should do it for Berlisconi), FIA then drop bombshell of reinstating only one of the races. Hey presto! Idiot ruling and problem of two GPs in one country solved...
g nimbys, make me puke ! 
Latest bit of news and more background info on the problem.
...Why do lentilists and interferring idiots not see the big picture, take away a major money making part of the local areas and it'll severely damage the area, jobs lost, dependent business folding up, but the environmentalsts won't care as long as they get their way.
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 23 March 15:15
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The Italian nation is currently in the middle of an election campaign with Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi's centre-right coalition known as the Casa delle Liberta against the centre-left L'Unione, headed by former prime minister and ex-president of the European Commission, Romano Prodi. The Prime Minister is not elected directly but is usually the leader of the party that holds a majority in parliament. The election takes place on April 9-10 after which the government will start to function again. This will give Italy the chance to save its Grand Prix which is currently being threatened by a legal action taken by two families who live just outside the walls of the Parco di Monza, the vast parkland area which surrounds the track. The houses, in the village of Biassono, were built after the autodrome was constructed but a magistrate in Milan, Marco Manunta, ruled in November that noise restrictions be placed on the circuit because motor racing is "socially-useless activity that has a major impact on the environment". The circuit cannot hold a Grand Prix if the ruling is upheld. The circuit is owned by the city of Monza and the city of Milan and the authorities are confident that the problem will go away because of the huge value the event brings to the region. Riccardo De Corato, the deputy-mayor of Milan, said that "it is right to protect the environment but it is also right that we should avoid excesses that might wipe out important traditions."
Unfortunately an appeal against the decision has been rejected in recent days and so it will probably take intervention from the government to get the race out of trouble. The last time the Italian Grand Prix was threatened in 1994 Berlusconi intervened to get the problems sorted out.
...Why do lentilists and interferring idiots not see the big picture, take away a major money making part of the local areas and it'll severely damage the area, jobs lost, dependent business folding up, but the environmentalsts won't care as long as they get their way.
>> Edited by FourWheelDrift on Thursday 23 March 15:15
FourWheelDrift said:
...Why do lentilists and interferring idiots not see the big picture, take away a major money making part of the local areas and it'll severely damage the area, jobs lost, dependent business folding up, but the environmentalsts won't care as long as they get their way.
Unfortunately, I think the 'Ring (nordschlieffe) may end up going the same way, where the lentilists try and bite the hand that feeds them (again). I guess we'll have to wait and see. It wouldn't surprise me if they only allowed racing on the 'Ring in a few years time....
Latest - the Italian GP is safe this year but limits are being put on other events.
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The Autodromo Nazionale at Monza can run the Italian Grand Prix without problems. A deal has been brokered by the mayor of the city Michele Faglia with three families living in the village of Biassono. They took the circuit management company SIAS to court in 2001 claiming that the circuit was too noisy and last autumn a judge Marco Manunta ruled in their favour, despite the fact that the people in question knew there was a race track next to their homes when they bought them.
The circuit appealed Manunta's decision but lost and so Faglia decided to do his own deal and talked with the parties involved, explaining the damage that they would do to the local economy and perhaps pointing out that they might not be popular in the neighbourhood if the race was called off.
The families involved have now agreed on a compromise with Monza agreeing to restrict the number of days running and to look at noise restriction measures, such as sound-deflecting walls.
Looks like the ecologists have won - the Le Mans Endurance Series will not be held at Monza 
www.lmes.net/uk/index.asp
www.lmes.net/uk/index.asp
Signed!
I was lucky enough to do a couple of laps in a Formula First on Monza back in '99 and it was one of the greatest moments of my life! The circuit is brilliant and the scenery - not to mention the history and the pit girls - are breathtaking.
Please add your name to the petition before Monza becomes a decaying monument to Italian motorsport!
I was lucky enough to do a couple of laps in a Formula First on Monza back in '99 and it was one of the greatest moments of my life! The circuit is brilliant and the scenery - not to mention the history and the pit girls - are breathtaking.
Please add your name to the petition before Monza becomes a decaying monument to Italian motorsport!
Just to put into further perspective, the people making a nuisance and trying to limit or even stop racing at Monza are just 3 families living in the village of Biassono, you will see where Biassono is on the map below in relation to Monza. You will also see just how many other houses, villages and 1000's of people in the built up areas are around Monza. Yet just 3 have the power to threaten the circuit. Madness.
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