Donington from 2010

Donington from 2010

Not sure I believe it, but it's just been announced on the Press Association
wires. Watch this space...

Re: Donington from 2010

"Paul Ian Harman" <chatterbox@doctorwhowebguide . net > wrote in message
news:6d6db7F13c6qU1@mid.individual . net ...
> Not sure I believe it, but it's just been announced on the Press
> Association
> wires. Watch this space...


Pitpass and Autosport are also covering the story:

* w w w .pitpass . com /fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=35284
* w w w .autosport . com /news/report.php/id/68828

Personally I think it's madness, and am hoping it's a negotiating tactic...
I think it's a bit classless to report it today on the eve of the 60th
Anniversary at Silverstone.

Paul

Re: Donington from 2010

Paul Ian Harman wrote:
>
> Pitpass and Autosport are also covering the story:
>
> * w w w .pitpass . com /fes php/pitpass news item.php?fes art id5284
> * w w w .autosport . com /news/report.php/id/68828
>
> Personally I think it's madness, and am hoping it's a negotiating tactic...
They do say the contracts are signed... which would be a bit extreme for
a tactic (if true, of course).

> I think it's a bit classless to report it today on the eve of the 60th
> Anniversary at Silverstone.

Thoroughly unnecessary. You might almost think the guy at the top of the
FIA was some sort of sadist...

oh

Mind you, you've got to agree with Bernie's comment about the <spit>
Olympics! Well, okay, you haven't *got* to... but I'm damn sure I do. :o)


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Re: Donington from 2010

Kim Andrews wrote:

> They do say the contracts are signed... which would be a bit extreme for
> a tactic (if true, of course).

That's what they said about Brands in 1999. I'll believe it when I see
the 2010 F1 grid lined up on the start/finish straight at Donington, and
not a second before.

(Yeah, okay... qualifying. And Friday practice. But you know what I mean.)

>> I think it's a bit classless to report it today on the eve of the 60th
>> Anniversary at Silverstone.
>
> Thoroughly unnecessary. You might almost think the guy at the top of the
> FIA was some sort of sadist...
>
> oh

:)

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Re: Donington from 2010

[Default] Thus spake Kim Andrews <bykimbo@hotmail . com >:

>Paul Ian Harman wrote:
>>
>> Pitpass and Autosport are also covering the story:
>>
>> * w w w .pitpass . com /fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=35284
>> * w w w .autosport . com /news/report.php/id/68828
>>
>> Personally I think it's madness, and am hoping it's a negotiating tactic...
>They do say the contracts are signed... which would be a bit extreme for
>a tactic (if true, of course).
>
>> I think it's a bit classless to report it today on the eve of the 60th
>> Anniversary at Silverstone.
>
>Thoroughly unnecessary. You might almost think the guy at the top of the
> FIA was some sort of sadist...
>
>oh
>
>Mind you, you've got to agree with Bernie's comment about the <spit>
>Olympics! Well, okay, you haven't *got* to... but I'm damn sure I do. :o)

Pray tell, just what did he say? School is killing me, I haven't even
seen Silverstone, although my sister has regaled me with the rabbit
hunting.

Re: Donington from 2010

Dillon Pyron wrote:
> [Default] Thus spake Kim Andrews <bykimbo@hotmail . com >:

>>
>> Mind you, you've got to agree with Bernie's comment about the <spit>
>> Olympics! Well, okay, you haven't *got* to... but I'm damn sure I do. :o)
>
> Pray tell, just what did he say? School is killing me, I haven't even
> seen Silverstone, although my sister has regaled me with the rabbit
> hunting.
>

Ah... sorry Dillon, if you'd asked immediately I might *just* have been
able to remember the details. Roughly (very!) it was a comment about how
much money has been wasted on the coming Olympics already, and how a
small percentage of that spent on improving GB's F1 facilities would
have been very nice, thank you.

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Re: Donington from 2010

Kim Andrews wrote:
> Dillon Pyron wrote:
>> [Default] Thus spake Kim Andrews <bykimbo@hotmail . com >:
>
>>>
>>> Mind you, you've got to agree with Bernie's comment about the <spit>
>>> Olympics! Well, okay, you haven't *got* to... but I'm damn sure I do.
>>> :o)
>>
>> Pray tell, just what did he say? School is killing me, I haven't even
>> seen Silverstone, although my sister has regaled me with the rabbit
>> hunting.
>>
>
> Ah... sorry Dillon, if you'd asked immediately I might *just* have been
> able to remember the details. Roughly (very!) it was a comment about how
> much money has been wasted on the coming Olympics already, and how a
> small percentage of that spent on improving GB's F1 facilities would
> have been very nice, thank you.

I think this was the one:

Ecclestone said, while announcing the removal: "I am sorry that we could
not have helped Silverstone to raise the money to carry out the circuit
improvements and run Formula One.

"I believe that the Government should have supported them, which would
have cost probably less than.002 per cent of the Government's commitment
for the Olympic Games."

And Mosley, seemingly, agrees:

"Their taboo on subsidising sport went out of the window when they
poured billions into the London Olympics. They happen once every 50
years; the British Grand Prix is annual. If it went, the government
would be to blame."

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Re: Donington from 2010

[Default] Thus spake Stephen M Baines
<usenet@localhost.kitschcamppalace.org.uk>:

>Kim Andrews wrote:
>> Dillon Pyron wrote:
>>> [Default] Thus spake Kim Andrews <bykimbo@hotmail . com >:
>>
>>>>
>>>> Mind you, you've got to agree with Bernie's comment about the <spit>
>>>> Olympics! Well, okay, you haven't *got* to... but I'm damn sure I do.
>>>> :o)
>>>
>>> Pray tell, just what did he say? School is killing me, I haven't even
>>> seen Silverstone, although my sister has regaled me with the rabbit
>>> hunting.
>>>
>>
>> Ah... sorry Dillon, if you'd asked immediately I might *just* have been
>> able to remember the details. Roughly (very!) it was a comment about how
>> much money has been wasted on the coming Olympics already, and how a
>> small percentage of that spent on improving GB's F1 facilities would
>> have been very nice, thank you.
>
>I think this was the one:
>
>Ecclestone said, while announcing the removal: "I am sorry that we could
>not have helped Silverstone to raise the money to carry out the circuit
>improvements and run Formula One.
>
>"I believe that the Government should have supported them, which would
>have cost probably less than.002 per cent of the Government's commitment
>for the Olympic Games."
>
>And Mosley, seemingly, agrees:
>
>"Their taboo on subsidising sport went out of the window when they
>poured billions into the London Olympics. They happen once every 50
>years; the British Grand Prix is annual. If it went, the government
>would be to blame."


Ah, it's the "blame it on THEM for not paying us the huge sums we
obviously deserve" ploy.