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1st May 2013, 19:49 #1
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Will Indycar lose Long Beach to F1?
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"It’s been reported that Long Beach mayor Bob Foster will fly to the Canadian GP in June to meet with Ecclestone to begin discussions about Bernie’s sales pitch. If that happens, it will be clear the game is on and you can be sure that Ecclestone’s pitch will be lucrative for Long Beach while the global exposure figures the city would receive from a contemporary F1 race would dwarf today’s tepid IndyCar numbers."
If Indycar loses it's second most important race, how long will Indycar survive as a series?"For 80 years this place has run on tradition. From today forward it will run as a business." - Tony George (Failed businessman)
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1st May 2013, 20:50 #2
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Originally Posted by Rex Monaco"Old roats am jake mit goats."
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1st May 2013, 21:20 #3
When pigs fly.
There is no way the tax payers of Long Beach will stand for the $$$$$ expenditure that Bernie will demand and finding a corporate sponsor to pick up the tab is a joke of an idea.
Gary"If you think there's a solution, you're part of the problem." --- George Carlin :andrea: R.I.P.
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1st May 2013, 22:25 #4
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Yeah. Long Beach will give Bernie a check for $100 million for a 5-year contract, then no one in F1 will complain about the lack of a complete garage on pit road.
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2nd May 2013, 03:24 #5
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There is already a purpose built GP track in the US which currently hosts an F1 race; they got 117,429 spectators last November.
I'm inclined to agree with garyshell here. They'll build a porcine aviation aerodrome before F1 returns to Long Beach.The Old Republic was a stupidly run organisation which deserved to be taken over. All Hail Palpatine!
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2nd May 2013, 03:31 #6
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Beyond the sanction fee, there would be so much work required to change the layout to bring Long Beach up to F1 safety standards. And there may not even be the real estate available to even make those changes especially down by turn one. It's too bad, since it would be amazing seeing F1 racing on the streets of Long Beach
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2nd May 2013, 19:42 #7
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Originally Posted by Rollo
Good one
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2nd May 2013, 22:01 #8
F1 is supposed to run on boring Tilkedromes, right?
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3rd May 2013, 10:04 #9
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Originally Posted by heliocastroneves#3Keep it fast, keep it real!!!
Not important, but nice to see that he has still the ability to drive fast
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