British Grand Prix 2012, Silverstone - Race 9/20

englishpremier said:
So Silverstone have now protected the car parks.

Why didn't they do that on Friday? The weather was forecast.
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The helecopter shots of the track show the field carparks empty.

In the past at Silverstone they used to send a convoy of 5 or 6 road sweeper trucks around the whole track to clean up dust and dirt. They seem to have dropped that though. It would definitely be better than sending the marshals out with brooms.
 
Jesus christ, have McLaren seriously only just realised its inters?

Did they have to send that decision back to the factory to go through a comitee or something?
 
I've been going to Silverstone for over 30 years and in that time I have seen hardly any really good developments to the spectator services bar some toilets and some less agressive gravel areas. I have seen money spent on various pit upgrades, members buildings and infrastructure for the businesses who frequent the area but it still feels tatty. Added to this they have over the years added a level of fencing and distance to the track that makes the place a poor circuit to watch motor racing at and added to this it has lost any sense of character it had in my mind. To see TV pictures full of scaffolding holding up cheaply constructed stands simply amplifies the temporary nature of the track and to my mind virtually every modification they have made to the layout has reduced its appeal. I used to love going racing there, now I try and avoid it.
 
Housey said:
I've been going to Silverstone for over 30 years and in that time I have seen hardly any really good developments to the spectator services bar some toilets and some less agressive gravel areas. I have seen money spent on various pit upgrades, members buildings and infrastructure for the businesses who frequent the area but it still feels tatty. Added to this they have over the years added a level of fencing and distance to the track that makes the place a poor circuit to watch motor racing at and added to this it has lost any sense of character it had in my mind. To see TV pictures full of scaffolding holding up cheaply constructed stands simply amplifies the temporary nature of the track and to my mind virtually every modification they have made to the layout has reduced its appeal. I used to love going racing there, now I try and avoid it.
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Really? Duke and I were only discussing yesterday how all the updates have really dragged the track up to date. It looks and feels much better and much more up to speed with other European tracks.

And the temporary grandstands is simply down to funding. It would be nice for them to get a nice fat government subsidy and build some funky perminent grandstands, but thats not the case.

Overall I think the developmets have massively improved Silverstone.
 
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