Comments on: Silverstone F1 crowd exceeds 310,000

By: pSynrg

pSynrg — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:05:46 +0000

Nah come on, let him have it

By: pSynrg

pSynrg — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:04:41 +0000

Nice balanced view of China there. Good to see the international spirit alive and well for one of the worlds truly international sporting activities.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:42:51 +0000

“including former World Champions Sir Stirling Moss”

Have I missed a retrospective chapionship being awarded?

That’s a very good point! It’s right there in the press release, though. Whoops…

By: MattB

MattB — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 17:49:29 +0000

I’ve been having a look at quite a few Bernie quotes recently. He has catagorically denied that the British Grand Prix will not be at Silverstone. He also has hinted that there may be a GP at Silverstone. This is NOT (in my opinion) a contradiction… surely that Silverstone will be hosting the European GP in the coming years? That would be awesome…

That aside, bring on a FOTA championship as well, broadcast on terrestrial and put them head to head. See who wins!

By: John H

John H — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 12:33:00 +0000

As Damon mentioned recently, The FIA & FOM have burnt their bridges with Silverstone. It probably won’t be F1 returning in 2010 but FOTA GP (or whatever its called).

I’m hoping that will happen because Bernie has non-stop critised everything about the BRDC and Silverstone, and it would be great to see Damon telling him and Max to eff off now that they come grovelling back with tails between legs.

By: CoolGav

CoolGav — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:24:32 +0000

^^ championship

By: CoolGav

CoolGav — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 11:23:57 +0000

“including former World Champions Sir Stirling Moss”

Have I missed a retrospective chapionship being awarded?

Over the years Bernie has been nasty to BRDC regarding Silverstone, so would expect to see them siding with FOTA rather than FIA/FOM for a race next year. With a crowd this size, surely there’s more justification for giving the fans what they want.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 08:13:40 +0000

Indeed – but it wouldn’t be the first time he’s suggested F1 could return to Silverstone in 2010 and then back-tracked on that position and insisted it was Donington or bust. He’s already done it once this year already.

By: Bigbadderboom

Bigbadderboom — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 07:17:56 +0000

Over the weekend Keith, Bernie was Interviewed by Jake Humphrey and he said in no uncertain terms that if Donnington dropped the ball then F1 would be back at Silverstone, this he announced after being in conference with Max for a while. I think it will be Silverstone next year, Donnington are going to struggle to be ready.

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:34:59 +0000

Thats 300,000 more than in the GP of China. The spectators there were party officials bused to the site under threat of working in the salt mines.
These figures show you what can be done if races are held in popular historic tracks !!!
This is a good future shaping ahead for FOTA.
CVC will have to invest in General Motors if they want to remain in the car business.