Re: Indy president: F1 still welcome at Indy
"Raoul Duke" <Owl.Farm@Woody.Creek> wrote in message
news:7ee5049171s4keirha08nlscm0g4p16pkq@4ax,com ...
> Maybe Dennis and the rest of the band of thieves can get the same visa
> attorney Amy Winehouse uses. Then, of course, they'd still have to
> man-up, to actually race.
>
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> Indy president: F1 still welcome at Indy
> 09 April 2008
>
> Last month Indianapolis Motorspeedway owner Tony George already openly
> admitted he hopes to welcome back Formula 1 one day to his track.
> George admitted it was mainly due to a number of sponsors whether or
> not F1 can return to the US. This week the track's president joined
> George in a bid to get Formula 1 back to Indianapolis.
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> Indianapolis will play host to the MotoGP circus in September. Unlike
> the Formula 1 cars the MotoGP riders will be racing in the same
> direction as the track is usually used for IRL races. The track had to
> make a number of modifications this winter in order to get its safety
> level up for MotoGP, but the changes shouldn't harm the track's
> chances to host Formula 1 again one day.
>
> Speaking at a press conference in Indianapolis Indianapolis Motor
> Speedway president Joie Chitwood said: "Every change we made (this
> winter) was also inspected and approved by the FIA so that should F1
> come back, they can run this course, they can run it their same
> direction, they can run it the other direction, they can run the
> four-turn chicane in Turn One or not.
>
> "We did not want to make any changes that would preclude us in the
> future from hosting F1. I know that Tony has said it, I've said it:
> The door is open. We think that's a phenomenal racing series; we think
> it should be back in America. So the door is open. Maybe it can come
> back some day."
>
> --
> "Holy Jesus! What are these goddamn animals?"
Is there a real reason why the F1 boys cant do the oval? I'd love to see an
F1 oval race. And perhaps that might interest the locals more.
I suppose there is some technical safety reason...... (rolling eyes smiley
thingy)
AC