Motorsport Off Topic Thread

i get the impression its more likely to be another street fest in a city centre with hotels within a 1 second walk of the track because this is what corporate sponsors want like in singapore rather than a more park like setting of canada/australia.

maybe they should start building city centres around silverstone , spa , monza , suzuka etc before its to late, we cant have the men in suits staying a helicopters ride from there hotels
 
Have you seen the plans for Silverstone? I think they are going to build 3 hotels and a massive industry park thing.

Quite how the hotels are going to survive on 1 week of trade a year I don't know.
 
From the BBC

"The Bavarian prosecution service plans to indict Bernie Ecclestone in the case of the disgraced banker Gerhard Gribkowsky"

Please please keep him in jail :)
 
Skeeter said:
Have you seen the plans for Silverstone? I think they are going to build 3 hotels and a massive industry park thing.

Quite how the hotels are going to survive on 1 week of trade a year I don't know.
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Taxpayer subsidies, like how most of the tracks pay the sanctioning fee already.
 
sr4470 said:
Taxpayer subsidies, like how most of the tracks pay the sanctioning fee already.
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Silverstone isn't supported by any public money at the moment, as far as I know. The only public money I know about was a fund for the dual carriageway that was built a while back.
 
Skeeter said:
Silverstone isn't supported by any public money at the moment, as far as I know. The only public money I know about was a fund for the dual carriageway that was built a while back.
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So local infrastructure to benefit the track and site is not a subsidy? The BRDC went cap-in-hand to the government when Bernie threatened to move the GP to another circuit for 2010.

I don't understand how the track\site owners do business with F1. They stump up many millions in fees, upgrade\building costs and have to break even on just the gate revenues\on-site hospitality from what I can see.
 
They'll make a small amount from business visitors to the site in general. It's also close to various other reasonably sized towns so they'll probably do ok for some places but I wouldn't think enough to need 3 hotels.
 
Did the BRDC get any public money to help with the latest redevelopment?

The dual carridgeway money I mentioned was a government hand out in about 2001.
 
Formula 1 teams will be able to hide stepped noses in 2013

Formula 1 teams will have the option of fitting a special panel to their cars next year to help hide stepped noses, the FIA has confirmed.
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http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/102883


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https://twitter.com/ScarbsF1/status/251351805919887360/photo/1


What's the point? :confused:
 
I'm presuming this "panel" will have the structural strength of like cardboard. Purely for asthetics surely? So they will in fact still have low noses.
 
Which at the time I said was entirely possible and without the requirement of introducing a stepped nose. You disagreed :p

Anyhow, 'we shall see' if they introduce a stepped nose, so far they haven't and I don't think that's likely to change by the end of the season.
 
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