posted Oct 11, 2008

If I were American or Canadian F1's departure wouldn't bother me one bit as they have their own Indycar series which is a damn sight less political and loads more exciting than the garbage Ecclestone churns out!

The last race of the Indycar season was won by a nose cone and the championship was decided in the last race. I say this as a Hamilton fan too!

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posted Oct 11, 2008

I always watch qualifying but not the two hour parade laughingly called a race. I have a plank that I go and watch warp instead, it is FAR more entertaining.
I would not put one single penny into greedy Bernie's pocket, the man makes ex P.M. Thatcher look meek and concerned for the views of others.

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posted Oct 12, 2008

With the sheer number of countries that want to host GP's now, I think that perhaps we are arriving at the point where F1 needs to rotate race slots every year between countries.

The only way that you could jam more race into a season is to have a policy of 4 races in a row and 1 week off (or somthing akin to that), and for no country EXCEPT USA to have more than 1 race. Even then, you would still have to rotate in order to accomodate everyone.

I posted a conceptual calender some time ago, so I'll post it again for 2009 with such a rotation policy in mind a factor in EVERY race that has either held a race recently or that will do or that proposes to do so:

MARCH
1st week – 'GP of the World’ – city circuit, bidding made by cities in a similar fashion to the Olympics
2nd week –
3rd week – Australia - Melbourne (Night)
4th week - Singapore - Marina Bay (Night)
5th week - Malaysia - Sepang (Night)

APRIL
1st week – India - Dehli (Night)
2nd week -
3rd week – Bahrain - Sahkir
4th week – Abu Dhabi - Yas Island

MAY
1st week – Qatar - Losail (Night)
2nd week –
3rd week - Canada - Montreal
4th week – USA - Indianapolis
5th week - Mexico - Cancun

JUNE
1st week – 'GP of America' - Laguna Seca/Los Angeles/Las Vegas
2nd week –
3rd week - Portgual - Portimao
4th week – Spain - Catalunya

JULY
1st week – France - Magny-Cours/Paul Ricard (alternating)
2nd week – Monaco - Monte Carlo
3rd week –
4th week - Turkey - Istanbul

AUGUST
1st week – Hungary - Hungaroring
2nd week – Czech Rep - Brno
3rd week –
4th week – Britain - Donnington
5th week - Germany - Nurburgring/Hockenheimring (alternating)

SEPTEMBER
1st week – Belgium - Spa-Francorchamps
2nd week – Monza/Imola (alternating)
3rd week -
4th week – Russia - Moscow

OCTOBER
1st week - Korea - Yeongam (Night)
2nd week – Japan - Fuji/Suzuka (alternating, Night)
3rd week – China - China – Shanghai (Night)
4th week -

NOVEMBER
1st week - Brazil - Interlagos

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posted Oct 12, 2008

Bernie started to kill f1 in 1999 when signed malaysia and finish killing it in 2004 when he signed bahrain and china. and it was like rubbing salt into the wounds with valencia.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

I don't understand why it's 'out of prime time area', it's the only race track on the current calendar that's anywhere near prime time, at about 6 hours ahead? Something like that, all the rest are mid-day or early morning. I wouldn't call any arabic, Australasian or east Asian country's 4am start time is particularly prime time.

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posted Oct 13, 2008

6 hours behind, even. It means the race is at about 6pm or later?

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posted Oct 14, 2008

How long will the manufacturer teams put up with FIA / BE with decisions like this ... no GP in North America seems a disasterous policy .. cant be long before Brazil gets the chop... then where next ? All we'll be left with are boring processions around poor street tracks.

Surely Toyota / Honda / BMW / Mercedes want and need more exposure in North America .. especially USA .. otherwise their sharholders will start to put them under pressure to drop their very expensive involvement in F1.

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posted Oct 16, 2008

Shame really as the island circuit was one place where we have seen some great races over the years. Having said that, the PC brigade were starting to interfere a bit too much for my liking and the inappropriate and entirely unnecesary use of the so-called "safety car" this year reduced the race to a farce. Seemed to me they behaved like NASCAR and just wanted to stop one driver walking away with it (in this case, Hamilton) so scrapping the venue was perhaps richly deserved.

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posted Oct 20, 2008

Is it just me that thinks Bernie has been taking back handers from these Oil Barns in the Middle East. It is shocking not to have a race in north america an yet they have two races in spain and half a dosen in the middle and far east. But yet norh america has a massive F1 following expecially in Montreal. I know the circit surface was poor this year but no other F1 track has to deal with minus 30 degrees cels temps and tones of in the winter and plus 30 degree temps in the summer and its in downtown Montreal so there is no problem about gettin to the track.

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posted Oct 22, 2008

This is outrageous. And all for the sake of Bernies (deep) pockets!
http://www.buzzinmotorsport.co.uk/mosley-urges-cutbacks-as-abu-dhabi-expect-new-era-of-racing/524

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