Indian Grand Prix 2013, New Delhi - Race 16/19

won't be cancelled - at worst they will pay a fine. Bernie suing them would cost a lot more than any backtaxes

hope Lotus get 2 bottom podium steps - we know who will be on the top step

will be 30c air temp so should be good for Lotus
 
What kind of amount of tax are we talking here? Could it end up F1 (Bernie) could cough up the cash so the race can go ahead? Can imagine he may lose more money it not happening.
 
Spuj said:
Urm, what??
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He is saying it would be a noble gesture to publicly acknowledge it's a crap way to win the title and apologise to Alonso, but I'd imagine his PR guy would have him doing that anyway.

Besides, not that it matters since Alonso knows he has no chance now :p:p
 
lunarwolf said:
hope Lotus get 2 bottom podium steps - we know who will be on the top step
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Read this morning that he's led every single lap here. :eek:

OK, so lights to flag victories are nothing that special if you're in the fastest car, and there have only been two races here, but there can't be many tracks where a driver has led every lap for two consecutive seasons, nevermind every single F1 racing lap a circuit has hosted.
 
MooMoo444 said:
He is saying it would be a noble gesture to publicly acknowledge it's a crap way to win the title and apologise to Alonso, but I'd imagine his PR guy would have him doing that anyway.

Besides, not that it matters since Alonso knows he has no chance now :p:p
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Probably me being a dullard. I can understand publicly acknowledging it's not a great way to win the title but at the same time he can't help the race being cancelled if it is due to 'political' issues, it's not exactly his fault that he will win the title in this way so i'm not sure what he has to 'apologise' for?
 
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Spuj said:
Probably me being a dullard. I can understand publicly acknowledging it's not a great way to win the title but at the same time he can't help the race being cancelled if it is due to 'political' issues, it's not exactly his fault that he will win the title in this way so i'm not sure what he has to 'apologise' for?
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He can apologise for being German, and also winning too many races.
 
JRS said:
Hope it succeeds, to be honest....
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I can't find any figures for the sanction fee, but the GP organiser claims to have invested over $400 million (http://www.indianexpress.com/news/organisers-refuse-to-write-off-indian-grand-prix-future/1186772/2). It wouldn't surprise me if the tax break helped them pay the sanction fee and recoup part of that investment. As far as I can tell, the circuit only gets used at the Grand Prix weekend. Seems to be yet another one-way street for FIA/FOM.
 
Skeeter said:
F1 goes to India. There is an argument about tax.

Shock.
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All hinges on the difference in Indian law between "entertainment" and "sport". Only sport was eligible for a tax exemption.

The numbers don't look good: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/indian-g...icket-sales-worry-organisers/429862-5-24.html

Ticket sales in the inaugural Indian Grand Prix saw exceptional sales numbers of 97,000 until the run-up to the race weekend. However, last year, with novelty having died down, sales dropped to only 65,000. This year, with just a week left for the Indian Grand Prix to be flagged off at the Buddh International Circuit (BIC) track, officials have recorded just 27,000 tickets sold.
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Duke said:
Hope it goes ahead to see whether Mclarens new setup works :p http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/110832
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**** Yeeuuuaahhh!!! :D

Awesome, excited to see what the changes are and how the car does- would be so funny if it's such a good change that we can get a podium from it :D

Indeed, Mclaren said at the end of 2012 that they actually didn't expect the car to be as good as it was, they went a direction with it and the car exceeded those expectations and they weren't sure why lol. CFD/Wind tunnel to track correlation etc.
 
Indy500 said:
All hinges on the difference in Indian law between "entertainment" and "sport". Only sport was eligible for a tax exemption.

The numbers don't look good: http://ibnlive.in.com/news/indian-g...icket-sales-worry-organisers/429862-5-24.html
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Don't 90% of these new races all end up the same? No one went to Valencia, no one went to Turkey, no one goes to Bahrain, no one goes to Korea.

Singapore is the only new race which seems to have remained popular but it has the novelty of being a night street race and I don't even think that makes any money. Be interesting to see how Texas is doing in 5 years.

Russia will be the next one, 2 men and a dog will be watching that one after the initial race.
 
Flights to Russia are cheap and I'm desperate to go on holiday there. So if tickets are cheap as no one is buying them, win win.

5th of october, thats no good, thats a few days before i fly to kilimanjaro.
 
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