ePetition to save the British GP
ePetition to save the British GP
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mattikake

Original Poster:

5,116 posts

228 months

Tuesday 28th April 2009
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mattikake

Original Poster:

5,116 posts

228 months

Thursday 30th April 2009
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Wrong petition! There is a better one here: http://petitions.number10.gov.uk/PermenantBritGP/

sb-1

3,377 posts

292 months

Thursday 30th April 2009
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Signed it.

pies

13,116 posts

285 months

Thursday 30th April 2009
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As much as I love the british GP,I wont sign and hope bernie actually fks off,every year we hear the same thing from bernie.So just to stop the endless crap he spouts I want it gone

Sorry

mattikake

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5,116 posts

228 months

Thursday 30th April 2009
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pies said:
As much as I love the british GP,I wont sign and hope bernie actually fks off,every year we hear the same thing from bernie.So just to stop the endless crap he spouts I want it gone

Sorry
Then you can expect the British motorsport industry as a whole to suffer, not to mention do further damage to the economy. Don't expect to see many future F1 WDC's after Button and Hamilton have gone either... frown

But surely if the government support it, this lessens BE's say on which country gets a GP even more so, lessening is power and influence. Hopefully then the extra stress levels and frustration will cause him to depart this world bit sooner?

DSM2

3,624 posts

229 months

Thursday 30th April 2009
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mattikake said:
pies said:
As much as I love the british GP,I wont sign and hope bernie actually fks off,every year we hear the same thing from bernie.So just to stop the endless crap he spouts I want it gone

Sorry
Then you can expect the British motorsport industry as a whole to suffer, not to mention do further damage to the economy. Don't expect to see many future F1 WDC's after Button and Hamilton have gone either... frown

But surely if the government support it, this lessens BE's say on which country gets a GP even more so, lessening is power and influence. Hopefully then the extra stress levels and frustration will cause him to depart this world bit sooner?
So exactly how will the British Motorsport Industry suffer?

There is not a single F1 team based in the UK because of the BGP and it will be a cold day in hell before the Chinese, Indians or Malaysians build a half useful F1 car.




mattikake

Original Poster:

5,116 posts

228 months

Thursday 30th April 2009
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DSM2 said:
mattikake said:
pies said:
As much as I love the british GP,I wont sign and hope bernie actually fks off,every year we hear the same thing from bernie.So just to stop the endless crap he spouts I want it gone

Sorry
Then you can expect the British motorsport industry as a whole to suffer, not to mention do further damage to the economy. Don't expect to see many future F1 WDC's after Button and Hamilton have gone either... frown

But surely if the government support it, this lessens BE's say on which country gets a GP even more so, lessening is power and influence. Hopefully then the extra stress levels and frustration will cause him to depart this world bit sooner?
So exactly how will the British Motorsport Industry suffer?

There is not a single F1 team based in the UK because of the BGP and it will be a cold day in hell before the Chinese, Indians or Malaysians build a half useful F1 car.
Well for a start, ever seen the number of kids that go to these events? These are the people that get interested in motorsport and/or F1 and become fans. Some are so interested they convince rich parents to let them take up karting. Or these are just the people that are the future of the motorsport industry, for the love of it.

I know for a fact that if I hadn't been dragged along to the '87 British GP by my dad, I wouldn't be a fan of motor-racing today (and fast cars, and modding fast cars ans all the associated industries involved in that). I would still be a football fan, so would my bro and several other school friends.

If my Uncle hadn't been to see Jim Clark at the British GP, he certainly wouldn't be running his own F3 series with his own team, with his sons, and then they have their kids and kids friends who go to race weekends...

Several of the current crop of F1 drivers are fans of the sport too. How were they wowed into becoming fans? I'm guesing there's real events invloved in that too.

People become fans for 2 main reasons: they see it for real, and there is someone to support - commonly getting caught up in the hysteria of a local hero. Without a local GP the chances of British kids seeing F1 for real is greatly reduced. Of course there are all the knock-on effects of one of the kids as school having been to the GP etc...

Why do you think Britain's current generation is lacking top Basketball, Baseball, American Football, Kabadhi etc. players? Why are rarer sports always remain rare sports? Because it's not part of their heritage and/or they don't get to see it and never take an interest.

Just be cause you have no passion for it, don't underestimate the effect passion for the power of the occasion has for other people. Passion is contageous.

Cause and effect un all that, or are you saying the above is all irrelevant?

Edited by mattikake on Thursday 30th April 20:25