British GP at Donington from 2010! CANCELLED!

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

The notion that Ecclestone or anyone else seriously believed that Gillett and co would ever deliver is just beyond me. I cannot think of any fellow F1 enthusiast who shared that optimism.

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which is a typical sentiment - if it was any other country in the world it would have been done, but this has been driven to the ground by the fans, the media, the sport etc from day one - i honestly thought that they would overcome that, but you don't go about giving out 17yr contracts willy nilly, so the plan was more than feasible, and like so many construction projects fell foul of funding problems due to the credit crunch and subsequent recession - did you know that construction activity is around 5% of what it was 2-3 years ago in the UK.

i am becoming more and more sick of the "can't do" mentality of this country and the laziness of the general populous who'd rather sit on their arses and claim than try to work - this just seems to be another element of this - people would rather read in the Sun that the project has failed and say "i knew it" rather than get behind anything (this isn't directed at your BD)

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Originally Posted by Robinho

which is a typical sentiment - if it was any other country in the world it would have been done, but this has been driven to the ground by the fans, the media, the sport etc from day one - i honestly thought that they would overcome that, but you don't go about giving out 17yr contracts willy nilly, so the plan was more than feasible, and like so many construction projects fell foul of funding problems due to the credit crunch and subsequent recession - did you know that construction activity is around 5% of what it was 2-3 years ago in the UK.

i am becoming more and more sick of the "can't do" mentality of this country and the laziness of the general populous who'd rather sit on their arses and claim than try to work - this just seems to be another element of this - people would rather read in the Sun that the project has failed and say "i knew it" rather than get behind anything (this isn't directed at your BD)

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I can't say I agree with your views here. The specifics of the Donington plan were always unrealistic — right from the start, the timescales were too short, the funding was uncertain and the motivation behind the project, i.e. Bernie's hatred of Silverstone and the BRDC, was wrong.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I can't say I agree with your views here. The specifics of the Donington plan were always unrealistic — right from the start, the timescales were too short, the funding was uncertain and the motivation behind the project, i.e. Bernie's hatred of Silverstone and the BRDC, was wrong.

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I'm with you. The motivation to get out of Silverstone was never about the track or facilities, Bernie just had a grudge for some reason.

The timescale was crazy and surely you need to have funding in place before you go and pitch for the GP??

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I can't say I agree with your views here. The specifics of the Donington plan were always unrealistic — right from the start, the timescales were too short, the funding was uncertain and the motivation behind the project, i.e. Bernie's hatred of Silverstone and the BRDC, was wrong.

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It's the finances that annoys me.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

I can't say I agree with your views here. The specifics of the Donington plan were always unrealistic — right from the start, the timescales were too short, the funding was uncertain and the motivation behind the project, i.e. Bernie's hatred of Silverstone and the BRDC, was wrong.

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I don't follow f1 as religiously as I used to, but I have followed the fate of the British GP as I have seen the Bernie act go on far too long. His desire to get out of Silverstone was just irrational. Now he has handed the race to a venue that may not carry it off....looks good on him, even if it is a shame for Donington, which is a place and track that deserved more respect over time than it got.

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Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa

I don't follow f1 as religiously as I used to, but I have followed the fate of the British GP as I have seen the Bernie act go on far too long. His desire to get out of Silverstone was just irrational. Now he has handed the race to a venue that may not carry it off....looks good on him, even if it is a shame for Donington, which is a place and track that deserved more respect over time than it got.

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I'm a bit similar to be honest. As long as Bernie is in charge of the promotion/making money side of the sport - the sporting side will suffer. Classic tracks ditched in favour of bland and boring Tilke-droms, in countries who will pay zillions to get a race, all in front of 3 men and a goat!

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Originally Posted by Dave Brockman

Source: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/l...re/6985866.stm

Change the date from 2007 to 2010, and "Renault World Series" to "Formula One", and you'll have a glipse into the future if Donington pull this off.

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interesting but Dave,don't Donington also host rock concerts....isn't there a traffic problem with the rock concerts too

Well the likes of Japan seems to be ok with alternating so I don't see why we can't have it in Britain too. Having one year at Silverstone and the other at Donny would be ideal IMO.

I wouldn't mind an f1 race @ brands hatch to be honest...that was always my fav track at toca 2 :D

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Originally Posted by harsha

I wouldn't mind an f1 race @ brands hatch to be honest...that was always my fav track at toca 2 :D

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No no no no no no. Thats a hundred kinds of wrong.