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Chat & Social => The Bar - General Chat => Topic started by: strapping young lad on July 04, 2008, 11:59:10
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport/formula_one/7489662.stm
cool!
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About time it moved Silverstone is a bit boring
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About time it moved Silverstone is a bit of boring
Well said.
Excellent choice for a new track.
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About blooming time too :D Just hope they dont change the track tooooo much, I may even be tempted to return and watch that one :-k
Wins over silverstone hands down
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so donington has 2 years to make the course better, such as facilities, im told the track is a bit too narrow too and the pit lane bit is too short
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Gonna make the M1/M42/A50 a bit of a NO-GO for the weekend though!
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though a fan of F1 i never realised that Donnigton had historically more claims to be the home of F1 - goes back to the 1930's
the BRDC has been shown to be an elite club that talks a lot but does nothing - now Bernie may not be perfect but he has called the bluff of the BRDC!
Damon/Stewart made very sad comments - bitter and twisted springs to mind
Donnington with the M1 and airport has the infrastructure needed
funny how the ITV numpties led by 'Bumble' have the nerve to complain - they ruined F1 with advert breaks and no High Definition - good to see it going back to BBC
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Well we have had F1 at Donington before, it was early 90's with the European Grand Prix. If its anything like then it will be a big bonus for the local businesses,
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Damon/Stewart made very sad comments - bitter and twisted springs to mind
Im sorry to disagree, but donny is a rubbish circuit that will need millions of pounds to update it, unfortunatly silverstone has been loosing the F1 for some time now. suffice to say, I wont be going
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I dont really follow F1 very much, but one thing I heard mentioned was in Germany they share the F1 between two circuits in alternate years, perhaps this may be an option over here
Maybe some co-operation between Silverston and Donnington could benefit every one concerned
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Not gonna happen!!
As it is Donnington is getting in the region of £100 million to upgrade from private investors, Silverstone would need similar but doesn't have the financial backing.
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Damon/Stewart made very sad comments - bitter and twisted springs to mind
Im sorry to disagree, but donny is a rubbish circuit that will need millions of pounds to update it, unfortunatly silverstone has been loosing the F1 for some time now. suffice to say, I wont be going
the one hundred million to update Donnigton is in place - Bernie has met the financiers - FACT!
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Hi,
well, being walking distance (5 miles but do-able, possibly even pushbike) away from donington - i think it will be great, i am going to apply to be a marshall/steward or whatever they need!
however, as my caravan lives 10 mins away - don't think i will be getting it out that weekend - traffic will be at a standstill.
may have to consider having a bbq after the race!
regards
ela
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More to the point how does this affect the tor show in feb?
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I love Donnington as a circuit and go there to watch bike races as often as I can. Unfortunately, I fear that after they've spent 100million making it F1 friendly it will lose the appeal as a bike circuit ~ too wide, no adverse cambers and no hump under the Dunlop bridge. I'm not even sure that an F1 car could get around the hairpin.
If we're talking about circuits that have hosted GP's before then why not Castle Combe or (dare I say it) Brands Hatch?
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this is good news as it will be closer to me :D but, donny needs to extend the track (as said it is a bit narrow) and they deffinetly need more run offs, which is fine, but the only place to do this is to extend onto where the market is on a sunday, and guess who works on that market... me. so thats sunday job gone then...
there is also talk of the hotel being built where the market is... so id say the market is deffintly gone now then...
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Castle Coombe, much as I love it, is rather small.
In fact If I remeber rightly Donny is rather small (for F1), have done a few track days there and it was nice in the Elise (mmmmm Cranerr curves), but in F1 it would feel like a go kart track. Silverstone on the other hand feels HUGE!
And thats ignoring anything about facilities etc.
so Im cynical about it for now, sorry.
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I love Donnington as a circuit and go there to watch bike races as often as I can. Unfortunately, I fear that after they've spent 100million making it F1 friendly it will lose the appeal as a bike circuit ~ too wide, no adverse cambers and no hump under the Dunlop bridge. I'm not even sure that an F1 car could get around the hairpin.
If we're talking about circuits that have hosted GP's before then why not Castle Combe or (dare I say it) Brands Hatch?
as with silverstone the prices will go up because it now has F1 status, which is crap really
the bikes will end up doing brands hatch or rockingham, which is an ok circuit but rubbish viewing of the in field
Id love them to do cadwel park as its my fav circuit!!
Damon/Stewart made very sad comments - bitter and twisted springs to mind
Im sorry to disagree, but donny is a rubbish circuit that will need millions of pounds to update it, unfortunatly silverstone has been loosing the F1 for some time now. suffice to say, I wont be going
the one hundred million to update Donnigton is in place - Bernie has met the financiers - FACT!
im not saying ther isnt any money for the project, i read Autosport too, but will it be another wembley?