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There are a few things within this.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
The near impossibility of Donington being ready for a race in 2010.
The Tilke factor. People like Donington because it's totally unlike Tilke circuits. Relatively narrow, undulating, flowing. I doubt it'll stay that way after Tilke.
Ioan do you even live in the UK? Your flag points to the fact you dont.
This could turn into a total nightmare by 2010, so far they have very few stands just some pathetic ones on the start finish. The road network is shared with east midlands airport and it gets blocked very quickly. One time it took us four hours to get out after a motogp race holding 80,000 people.
I went there for a world superbike race and to my horror they had no big screens anywhere, and bad organisation throughout. I cant see them being ready, especially with how slow things work in the UK, its not like there's a communist goverment pushing it along.
Just a sad day for Silverstone and a potential very bad 2010 for british motorsport.
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Originally Posted by ArrowsFA1
Good spotting. Why is it that FIA, as the regulator of the sport, is announcing venues?
There certainly is a fair amount of politics going around there...
Two years is enough IMO (you should see the speed with which they build metro, hotel and airports in Persian Gulf countries these days), but £100m certainly isn't. Not if they are to erect grand stands, build press facilities, build an access road, asphalt car park, and upgrade the track.Quote:
Originally Posted by Knock-on
And remember, they said £100m in 5 years, not £100m right away...
This can't be done.
Other countries managed to build circuits from scrap in 1 year, so maybe you super-duper royalists will manage to upgrade one track in 2 years :?:Quote:
Originally Posted by savage86
As for where I live, BTW the flag is of the country where I was born, has nothing to do with the amount of whining you people managed to produce in this thread.
A long as the fancy pits and special boxes and other facilities are done for bernie and his elite crew, sponsors and so forth, especially helipads, everything will be fine.
as to the spectators, well let them eat cake...............Zimbabwe? Not this year as talks broke down after enough money could not be floated to bernie's off-shore accounts, something about some elections and executions interfered with it but 2010......
But that's a good thing, anything the government gets near tends to move rather slowly - Wembley, the Olympics.Quote:
I cant see them being ready, especially with how slow things work in the UK, its not like there's a communist goverment pushing it along.
Someone with several millions of their own money at stake will probably have thought it all through, it'll be pretty expensive/embarrassing not to have it all done on time.
I can understand why they needed to move the race, the BRDC does seem to have been all talk and no action for quite some time. Who knows? Donington may be an enormous success.
Are the British glad that we have a British GP?Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Yes
Is there an alternative to Donington?
Arguably, yes.
And, after all, isn't this a discussion board to air our grievances, whine and therefore debate?
Yes
ioan, you may call it whining, but I call it expressing perfectly valid opinions. It's certainly far from 'pathetic'.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
I think the point was being made that you may not understand how these things work in the UK.Quote:
Originally Posted by ioan
Yes, other countries may have been able to create tracks within a year, but in the UK we have strict planning regulations (although moves are afoot to bring in legislation to get big projects through more quickly and avoid long-running public inquiries). Other countries desperate to have a GP circuit may not have as much red tape to wade through, and larger amounts of funding more readily available. The UK's record when it comes to major building projects for sports facilities is pretty woeful. And building a new circuit from scratch is totally different to making extensive revisions to an existing one and its surrounding road network, with all the disruption to other events that would cause.
Valid points, or 'pathetic'?