Comments on: F1 cars will hit 298kph in Craner Curves at the new Donington Park in 2010

By: Adman

Adman — Tue, 18 Nov 2008 11:07:07 +0000

Is it just me or does anyone else see large corner similarities of the donington circuit to the nurburgring f1 circuit?

By: the limit

the limit — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:39:06 +0000

Night race at Rockingham, ideal second race to Donington.

By: DG

DG — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:49:16 +0000

Adrian, I agree with you. I think that given Bernie’s history with Silverstone, he is waiting for them to go on their knees begging him to buy them out.
Lets see how far down the line Donington get before Bernie refuses to race there, as hes already threatened. If he waits till the last minute after all the money is spent then I definately won’t bother wasting my money to help his little circus out of debt!

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:24:04 +0000

Seedy – Fixed, ta.

Oliver – I did write in the intro that it’s far from certain this will actually happen.

Hounslow – Given the amount of working they’ll need to do there in the meantime, they might not have chance. And in its current guise it might not have a high enough FIA safety rating for F1 cars to lap it.

However Cars International have a 2004-spec Jaguar R5 they use for F1 driving experiences and it did a lap of 55.5s in March. Marc Hynes drove.

By: HounslowBusGarage

HounslowBusGarage — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:11:13 +0000

If they do go that fast through Craner, is there enough run-off area at the Old Hairpin?
Actually, since the track from the current start straight to Macleans is not being altered, it would be interesting to test an F1 car on the track in its current form to see if the projected speeds are matched by actual speeds. Wonder if they’ve tried that?

By: Oliver

Oliver — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 14:06:21 +0000

In the present economic climate, that heading should have been ……..”F1 cars may hit 298kph in Craner Curves at the new Donington Park in 2010″

By: Seedy001

Seedy001 — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 13:18:43 +0000

Well, if it happens then the craner curves are going to be fantastic and I’ll definately be there!

Just one thing, Keith, you’ve used the wrong units for the track length ie. kph instead of Km.

By: ajokay

ajokay — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 12:49:47 +0000

Surely the first corner is the Melbourne Hairpin, not Adelaide. Got your Auzzie GP venues mixed up Keith!

And why am I seeing no main grandstand opposite the pitlane? Surely a MAJOR oversight right there.

By: nick clews

nick clews — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:25:28 +0000

Bernie is just dropping the british gp lets face it. Instead of putting abit of extra money into silverstone he starting all over again with donnington which he knows will not be completed in time which makes a perfect excuse not to have a gp here and go to somewhere like dubai which has the dosh to pay.

By: Adrian

Adrian — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 10:10:18 +0000

Bernie keeps threatening the British GP, but the fact remains that when Schumacher-mania was at it’s height we had 2 GP’s in Germany, now with Alonso at the top of the sport we have 2 in Spain. I will be gob-smacked if we don’t have a British GP somewhere in 2010. I personally hope it’s Donington as it’s a lot nearer to me and is a fantastic circuit, but if not then I wouldn’t bet against Silverstone.

Bernie goes where the money is. With Lewis doing so well (and fingers crossed Button doing better) the sport will be back to it’s most popular in UK in the next few years so people will pay for tickets to see the GP even if the price went up to cover Bernie’s stupid fees.

I still can’t help but wonder whether this isn’t all a power-play by him to try and get the contract as race promoter to make even more money…

Edited to add: I’ve just realised something…with all the modifications to the track, looks like we’ll be losing one of (to me) the iconic parts of Donington, the Dunlop footbridge….