posted Nov 16, 2007

Oh My God! What ignorance!!!!

you guys have it sound like everyone is dying of starvation here..

Lets get first fact right, most of Indian economy is informal and number will never reflect the fact. The income of farmers is not included(since its not taxed). Althought i live in the city my land holdings in rubber plantation(just few acres) earns me more than $20,000 a year!

Secondly every year over 10,000 Indians travel to Baharain and Malayasia just to watch the GP!

The TV reaches 400-600million people(althought there are just 100million TVs).

the middle class u can afford to watch the GPs are numbered between 300-400 million.


Yes there are poor people, and to help them we need development like the one the Grand Prix will bring. Imagine the roads, track, the airport, hotels that will come up! besides construction and material, they will also employee 1000s permanently for their upkeep.

Sorry but the GP has been long overdue, 2010 too sounds late!

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posted Nov 17, 2007

India got the future growth in terms of world's future automobile market for production and R & D. I welcome the decision to create a F1 racetrack by 2010, it is late but it’s not too late. We all knew now, the attractive place to be for automobile business in 21st century.

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posted Nov 17, 2007

Wow! It has been my dream to see India hosting Formula 1 racing ever since I started viewing them Live (for more than 12 years). There may be more viewers after Narain but there had been several Indian fans for F1 even before him.

But I am certain that this will create an opportunity for more Indian F1 drivers and car makers. I can't wait to see!

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posted Nov 17, 2007

Actually am not too surprised at the remarks made by my British friends here. It's just so typical. I am not a great GP fan but I am Indian working in Britain for the past 5 yrs (off course, the conversion rate from pound to rupees is so attractive, cheeky you think??) and my idea of Britain was so different from before I actually experienced living here. The British are really not as perfect as they've lead all of us to believe. Apart from all their other short comings, one of the two typical British traits is their absolute denial towards realizing the fact that there are a lot of other countries in the world that have grown to be far more superior than "Great" Britain in a lot of things. The second trait is a good one, it's the habitual British sarcasm - they are unbeaten in that. A lot of people in Britain still believe that the Queen still rules ¼ of the world and the few savvy ones have started to migrate to Australia or New Zealand. When they wake up, which I really doubt that they will, they are in for a big shock.

We Indians know that our country has a lot of issues to tackle. We hardly need the British to remind us of that. May be you should start focusing on your internal problems, like why your adult population is spend most of their time drinking in the pubs than at home (watching GP) and why most of your young ones spend most of their time on the streets (drunk) and not in schools. Unfortunately, these are the things that you really can't blame on out sourcing!!!!

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posted Nov 18, 2007

Well India is a vast market for F1 and as mentioned by some of the others F1 can certainly have India as a back up for sourcing even sponsorship as indian firms are doing very well economically and sometimes better than western companies. F1 racing involves a lot of investment and F1 can bank upon India as its next back office and back up for the same. Ofcourse viwership eventually counts and india has absolutely no lacking in the same.

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posted Nov 20, 2007

I think the move towards an Indian Grand Prix is
great news but with on major reservation.It could
see the end of a yearly British GP,because with an ever bigger demand for more GP's around the
world and Bernie's well known comments about the
Silverstone facilities over the last three years or so,it could well be the one to go.
Also with the ever rising cost of tickets which
are already too high,there will be a limit to
what people can reasonably want to pay out to
see this race.Whatever Silverstone do there will always continue the demand for more. Also
the recent changes to the shape of the circuit
has ruined one of the great races as a spectacle anyway.Yes this could over the next few years spell the end of a GP here.Sad because we once had two great ones in Brands
Hatch and Silverstone who shared the race on
a biannual basis.

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posted Nov 21, 2007

Another new soul-less track on the way. Hooray for Bernie and his back pocket >

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posted Nov 21, 2007

China has a GP so it was only a matter of time before India had one. Good luck to them! I wonder how long before a Chinese or Indian F1 champion... wow!

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posted Nov 22, 2007

Here you go British people, go educate yourselves:
The world's richest nation (USA) has 13% of it’s population below the poverty line. (Has a GP)
UK has 17%. (Has a GP)
Brazil has 36%.(Has a GP)
India has 28%. (Has a GP)

No-one in India goes hungry. We have mountains for food reserves which we give away to the poor. Yet in New York 1 in 6 go hungry. Can you believe it?! http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7106726.stm

According to the British comments on this site, let’s stop the GP in the UK so we can eliminate UK's poverty first.
India was made poor by 300 years of British colonial rule - stealing, pillaging and raping India
What’s UK’s reason for its poverty?
Get you own house in order first before you start pointing fingers.

Bring on the GP in India. We can afford it!

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_percentage_of_population_living_in_poverty

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