British GP at Donington from 2010! CANCELLED!

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/74731

Why the hell should the Government use 'our' money to provide a British GP? We're in a 'credit-crunch' - the money is needed for more worthy things. What planet is he on?

Everybody sees the billions spent bailing out the banks, the billions on offer to prop up the car industry, the billions being spent on the 2010 Olympics; and then feels aggrieved when they can't get a comparitively small piece of the pie.

The trouble is that with so many people wanting a small piece of pie, there's just not enough pie to go round. Bernie's correct in a way that the amount of money required to save the BGP is a tiny fraction of the Olympic budget, but the perception of F1 (rightly or wrongly) is that it's a cash-rich sport which is totally undeserving of government support.

We'll have an election in the next year or so and with Labour already less popular than haemorrhoids I can't see them risking the wrath of the public by bailing out Formula One.

So bye bye, British Grand Prix :(

We're fooked :(

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

Everybody sees the billions spent bailing out the banks, the billions on offer to prop up the car industry, the billions being spent on the 2010 Olympics; and then feels aggrieved when they can't get a comparitively small piece of the pie.

The trouble is that with so many people wanting a small piece of pie, there's just not enough pie to go round. Bernie's correct in a way that the amount of money required to save the BGP is a tiny fraction of the Olympic budget, but the perception of F1 (rightly or wrongly) is that it's a cash-rich sport which is totally undeserving of government support.

We'll have an election in the next year or so and with Labour already less popular than haemorrhoids I can't see them risking the wrath of the public by bailing out Formula One.

So bye bye, British Grand Prix :(

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You are quite right (except the Olympics are over here in '12 not '10!) The potential gains from the Olympic legacy go far higher in justifying the support, than would better pits etc at Silverstone.

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

You are quite right (except the Olympics are over here in '12 not '10!) The potential gains from the Olympic legacy go far higher in justifying the support, than would better pits etc at Silverstone.

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Can't believe I wrote 2010 :s At least if it was two years earlier we might not have a logo resembling Lisa Simpson playing the skinflute.

Funny with the possible new rules, you really do not need pits, just a long, winding strip of asphalt...... and a few grandstand seats

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Originally Posted by markabilly

Funny with the possible new rules, you really do not need pits, just a long, winding strip of asphalt...... and a few grandstand seats

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Santa Pod...!! ;)

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Originally Posted by UltimateDanGTR

you know for a brit bernie really doesnt show it does he?

If he dont get his money and his way, and donnington isnt ready, he just wilfully abandons all of the history and importance of the british gp without second thought.
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I totally disagree. "Heritage" doesn't pay the bills. "Importance" evidently doesn't equate to good solid cash either so the Grand Prix can't be that important.

If the British GP really was a mega-prize asset then Silverstone wouldn't have lost it as it would have been a huge cash cow. Evidently it isn't...as neither is the French GP and, with due respect, the French GP has a darn sight more 'heritage' than the British GP....or any other GP I could care to mention.

Why should being British mean that Bernie has to make awful economic decisions? Why should a sense of patriotism be a reason to lose money?

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Originally Posted by Mark

Indeed.

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So now referring to somebody in that way is not only ok but approved of by the owner of this site? Cool....can you have a word with the moderator who gave me a month long infraction for doing just that? I believe I'm due an apology.

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Originally Posted by tamburello

If the British GP really was a mega-prize asset then Silverstone wouldn't have lost it as it would have been a huge cash cow. Evidently it isn't...as neither is the French GP and, with due respect, the French GP has a darn sight more 'heritage' than the British GP....or any other GP I could care to mention.

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I see what you are saying, but I don't share your view. ;)

All the new tracks, are they really cash cows? Or can they simply outbid and outbuild the others due to oodles of state/government backed money?

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Originally Posted by SGWilko

I see what you are saying, but I don't share your view. ;)

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Tamburello - That's ok Wilko....I'm in a good mood!

(Aside to a henchman) - Release the hounds.