Comments on: 2010 F1 calendar has 19 races, starts in Bahrain and ends in Brazil

By: AJ

AJ — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 21:18:34 +0000

Your being funny right??? Personaly I heard thousands of hearts break simultaneously! lol

By: Piffles

Piffles — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 21:59:33 +0000

I quite agree on your comments about canning those tracks. Interestingly, you left out Sepang, which I also consider as the only Tilke track (along with Istambul) which is any good.

But it’s not that easy to find replacements that meet current safety standards. I’m thinking Algarve, Jerez, Zandvoort, Adelaide, Paul Ricard, and one road course from the US (Laguna, Barber, Sears Point, Road America or Road Atlanta?)

That makes a total of only 15 races.

By: Keith Collantine

Keith Collantine — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:24:05 +0000

I’ve seen that, but I’m waiting for official confirmation from the FIA.

By: Lustigson

Lustigson — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 09:10:42 +0000

Joe Saward has the Monaco GP on 16 May, as does Wikipedia.

By: STIGGY

STIGGY — Sat, 10 Oct 2009 12:45:52 +0000

i recon for the french gp , they should use the le mans bugatti circuit

By: Salty

Salty — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 20:14:50 +0000

Absolutely agree that issue is not new locations for F1, but loss of F1 in existing markets.

If you put on the show in Imola or France, the grandstands will be full of throbbing, cheering fan. Put it on in Malaysia or Korea, the grandstands will remain mostly devoid of people. The fanbase simply isn’t there, and while I can’t speak for everyone else, as a European based fan, I can’t afford to go to Malaysia or Korea for a long weekend.

Yes the ‘global’ caché is very good for F1, but no representation in USA and Africa (Kyalami anyone?) is not logical. Financially Singapore, Japan, China and India make sense. Malaysia and Korea do not.

By: Salty

Salty — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 19:44:24 +0000

Yep, Turkish track is east of the Bosphorus, so the circuit is in Asia not Europe.

And Middle East is not a continent. Definately 8 GPs in Asia.

Someone rather humourously suggested that Bernie really shouldn’t propose a Antartic Grand Prix, but let’s be honest, if Ben & Jerry’s decided to cough up the dough, we’d be there next year.

Money is EVERYTHING. Fans of F1 are just a footnote. Shame on Bernie and shame on F1 teams for letting it go so far this way.

By: Macca

Macca — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 14:36:59 +0000

Why has Australia lost the season opener. That’s crap.

By: just me

just me — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 17:08:29 +0000

AGAIN IN 2010 THE USA F1 FAN IS COMPLETELY DISMISSED …

As you say, jason, why should they mount a race in the US for that one F1 fan in the stands??

The rest of the US motorsport fans are over at the NASCAR track

By: just me

just me — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 16:43:09 +0000

The world is ending in 2012

Hmm, interesting. When exactly in 2012?

Here’s what I saw in my last séance:
The Force Pakistan team (taken over from the ex-Malaysia-Lotus team) finally made their highly unexpected maiden win in the maiden India race, ahead of the dominating Force India team that won the last 2 championships in a boring Schumacher-esque manner. As usual, the FIA stewards step in and declare: Force Pakistan gained an unfair advantage by cutting a chicane and not yielding long enough before the subsequent corner and therefore gets a 30 sec penalty, which puts them into 4th place.

Pakistan naturally responds with some nukes onto India …