Comments on: F1 links: De la Rosa tipped for Campos

By: PrisonerMonkeys

PrisonerMonkeys — Wed, 22 Jul 2009 12:22:58 +0000

Its OK to have circuit in Asia,I would love to see motor racing in India but not on a Herman Tilke track as eyeything he designed has been BORING.

Don’t blame Tilke, blame the rules. Keith put out a very good article on just that. The best we can hope for is Mosley’s successor relaxing the rules; Vatanen’s the better chance, but his recent comments about the FIA ‘bankrolling’ Todt’s campaign might mean he doesn’t stand a chance at the office now.

And as far as Bernie is concerned I think its his time to depart from F1 & enjoy the rest of his life with his friend MAX peacefully.

If Max is going, it’s better that Bernie stays, purely for the sake of continuity. It’s nothing long-term, but rather until such time as Mosley’s successor settles into the job. Any manager worth his salt knows that you don’t change everything at the top at once; you do it in phases. It’s a longer transition, but it’s also easier on everyone invovled. It lets them get used to it gradually, and helps for the sake of continuity.

By: sato113

sato113 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 17:50:29 +0000

YES! good thinking. take the european gp away from valencia (which was a failure with its expensive tickets, limited overtaking and pretty uninspiring venue) and give it to donington! everyone happy.

By: PrisonerMonkeys

PrisonerMonkeys — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 02:21:56 +0000

Who cares about the facilities, pits or toilets ?

Uh, teams and spectators?

Teams need good pit facilities to be able to do what they do without fuss. Unless you’d rather a repeat of the 1981-82 Las Vegas Grand Prix, when the teams were just a few feet away from the pit lane itself. And if the architecture looks good, so what? Formula One should be about the glamour; the buildings should look like they were designed by Ken Adam for the set of a James Bond film.

And as for the toilets, I daresay spectators care about them. Who wants to queue up for an hour simply to use the john while the race is on? Or worse, have no toilets, and in its place, dysentry.

By: wasiF1

wasiF1 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 01:01:39 +0000

I think he deserve because he tested for a long time for Mclaren.

By: wasiF1

wasiF1 — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:59:02 +0000

Well thanks for your comment.
But don’t you think The Asian circuit is rather boring than the traditional circuit.
You go to the record book for the last 3 years or so,on a dry track there were more overtaking on traditional circuit than new Asian circuit.Secondly there are more F1 fan in Europe than in Asia as we saw in the Turkey this year when on 36ooo (if I am not wrong) attended the race.

Its OK to have circuit in Asia,I would love to see motor racing in India but not on a Herman Tilke track as eyeything he designed has been BORING.

And as far as Bernie is concerned I think its his time to depart from F1 & enjoy the rest of his life with his friend MAX peacefully.

By: PrisonerMonkeys

PrisonerMonkeys — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 00:54:05 +0000

Did you not read my post? The circuits I listed that are not already on the calendar are in no condition to be included. Hockenheim is the perfect example: the old loop out into the forest has been reclaimed by nature. And the A1-Ring (I can’t spell its oriignal name) has had the pit buildings demolished. It’s not simply a case of going back to those circuits because there’s nothing to go back to.

By: mani

mani — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:50:41 +0000

Yes, but counting the list of (all of ‘em) your traditional tracks results 12 in total… wouldn’t the other 8 (the previous post has asked for 20 races per season) be sufficient to start with to build the fan base in Asia/India/MidEast? Of course, I’m not saying that new venues should be denied a GP, but F1 without the traditional and historic venues means literally nothing to me.

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:41:03 +0000

Who cares about the facilities, pits or toilets ? most people see the race on TV anyway.
The main thing is to have nice historical tracks – it adds to the charm of the place to have old – looking facilities.
What I find very impersonal and cold are those monster new infrastructures in far away places. That I find quite tacky.

Its all about the money that CVC wants – then Bernie uses any excuse like the facilities.

By: Bartholomew

Bartholomew — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:35:02 +0000

Hope de la Rosa ends up racing – he is a very nice and polite fellow with a lot of experience.

By: PrisonerMonkeys

PrisonerMonkeys — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 12:26:40 +0000

The pit, facilities for one.

The BRDC don’t have the will power you mentioned because they’re a bunch of old fools who assume that because of the history associated with Silverstone and the British Grand Prix, their position on the calendar is safe and so they’ll only ever do half a job at a time. How many times has the pit complex bee scheduled for rennovations recently? Too frequently. Ecclestone gets frustrated with them because they’re more interested in the history of the race than the future of it.