Yet more dis-organisation by the Indian government...

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First of all it was the tax row which meant some teams threatened to boycott the race. This is now solved thanks to the organisers agreeing to pay the tax liability of the teams to the government instead.

Now comes the news that the Indian government/officials are rejecting visa applications of teams and drivers 'due to lack of information'.

So far it's claimed that the majority of the HRT team and Nico Rosberg have had their applications denied.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...for-Indian-Grand-Prix/articleshow/9986606.cms

You'd think they'd use an opportunity like this to show the world that they're an up and coming country with the ability to handle events like this. Muppetry of the highest order.
 
Oh, don't worry, they will drive around a muddy field with whoever turns up so long as Bernie gets his money.

All we need now is for a number of drivers to not be able to race due to Dehli Belly and the whole farcical experiment will be complete.
 
Skeeter said:
Oh, don't worry, they will drive around a muddy field
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At least it will make the people who favour gravel traps happy :D

Spunkey said:
So far it's claimed that the majority of the HRT team .... have had their applications denied.
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Maybe they were unhappy Karthikeyan was dropped :D

[RACIST] I bet if every team hired an Indian as one of their drivers for this race, these issues would disappear [/RACIST]
 
Skeeter said:
Are they having to give away free tickets like they did in Korea to get anyone to actually turn up to spectate?
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That wouldn't be the case, remember there's a billion+ bums in the country and only a few thousand tickets.

I was initially surprised with the ticket pricing - I thought they were asking for a lot of money but then they have a billion+ people and they'd reckon to get these many seats filled at the current prices easy.

I wouldn't - for a moment - think they'll be giving any tickets away.
 
I remember seeing a tweet from Rubens after Monza saying how hard it was to actually get a visa approved.

Granted F1 is new to India, but surely the visa required would be similar to that needed by other sports people such as cricket etc?
 
gobbo said:
I remember seeing a tweet from Rubens after Monza saying how hard it was to actually get a visa approved.

Granted F1 is new to India, but surely the visa required would be similar to that needed by other sports people such as cricket etc?
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Cricket being the national sport, I'm sure the Indian govt bend over backwards to sort it out for them.
 
30,000 tickets? Thats shocking.

Even worse if that's counted by day (i.e. 110,000 people over 3 days gives a total spectator limit of 330,000 tickets). If thats the case, they have sold less than 10% of the tickets!
 
Skeeter said:
30,000 tickets? Thats shocking.

Even worse if that's counted by day (i.e. 110,000 people over 3 days gives a total spectator limit of 330,000 tickets). If thats the case, they have sold less than 10% of the tickets!
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30,000 does sound like a very low number to me, I expected it to be sold out by now... interesting...
 
I wonder if they will be spraying the dirt green like Korea?

It will be interesting to see if the US GP goes ahead next year. If it struggles to be ready in time, maybe Bernie needs to look at the feasibility of the time frames in which people say they can build GP tracks?
 
What does that comment have to do with this thread? India was ready in time. US should be OK as well. Korea had problems but that's down to poor project management and not with FIA or Bernie's unreasonable expectations.
 
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