INDY and George dump F1 for Motogp....

[markabilly]

Now we know the sudden about face--F1 was DUMPED after George had made other arrnagments, even as Bernie had announced at one point that F1 would return for at least one more year...well suprize me not...there will be more people there for Motogp PLUS they will be passing and racing based on skill and not merely who has the best car with the best engineer....problem for F1 is that no one, not even the women buy off on the concept that F1 is actually racing between drivers...it is more like a contest of machines in far too many races (unless it rains..)

[leopard]

Again, 1f they have more interest on motogp they should allow more classes 125 and 250 cc wholeheartedly before the motogp class running.

[ChrisS]

Again, 1f they have more interest on motogp they should allow more classes 125 and 250 cc wholeheartedly before the motogp class running.

they will at indy

[PA Rick]

Only an idiot would trade an F1 date for a motogp date.
Oh, wait, he did.

[leopard]

Not now

[call_me_andrew]

We've all known about this for a long time now. Where have you been?

Bernie wanted more money to come to the U.S. because it's so far out of the way of the usual F1 schedual *COUGH* INDIA *COUGH* EUROPE *COUGH* and we're just so damn far away from Canada. While that may sound like a bitter explanation of a story, Bernie did say that in a pre-race interview at Indy. Tony George told him exactly what he can do with this weekend (and a life time supply of chocolate).

[leopard]

we are fine here, but have a problem for missing a country named COUGH from the map

[ShiftingGears]

TG couldn't pay Bernie...

[ChrisS]

Only an idiot would trade an F1 date for a motogp date.

Why is that?

MotoGP will attract about the same number of people at the track as F1, ticket prices will be about the same and though I don't know the details I'm sure Dorna (MotoGP's promoter) wont want as much money as Bernie

As a track owner TG will make more from MotoGP than he did from F1

[jso1985]

Now we know the sudden about face--F1 was DUMPED after George had made other arrnagments, even as Bernie had announced at one point that F1 would return for at least one more year...well suprize me not...there will be more people there for Motogp PLUS they will be passing and racing based on skill and not merely who has the best car with the best engineer....problem for F1 is that no one, not even the women buy off on the concept that F1 is actually racing between drivers...it is more like a contest of machines in far too many races (unless it rains..)

I still wonder why people who doesn't like F1 tries to whole bloody time to prove that their favourite motorsport is actually doing some harm to F1...

yeah right... like it or not F1 is a bigger sport and bussiness than WRC, MotoGP and CC alltogether so any track owner would prefer F1 first.

As long as I know the MotoGp round was negotiated way before Bernie decided to axe the USGP, so technically George was wanting to have both.

and MotoGp only based on skill and not the best bike or enginner? :rotlmao:!! with equal machinery Rossi would have won all races this year! you can't deny having the best bike on the grid and that Honda and Yamaha are messing up big time is helping Stoner