- 19 Jul 10, 15:11#207688
Id love the last few corners with the long straight. Would make an interesting race.
How about Laguna Seca with the quick left right thats so steep.
How about Laguna Seca with the quick left right thats so steep.
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...I want a US GP but I'm not sold on this Austin circuit and certainly not sold on it being ready for 2012. Things that involve major money and contracts stateside take an eternity to be built. Nine years after the World Trace Center attacks there is basically a big hole in the ground, while they are able to plant height record setting building Asia-Pac in a few years.
Unless local and state agencies are FULLY behind the circuit and the money is there and flowing (unlikely in this economy) I just don't see this happening.
The corkscrew.....in an F1 car.....I think I'm going to need a clean up...be right back.
Does an F1 car have enough ride height?
With ground effects GT and prototype cars don't have much more ride height but if they hit they'll just damage splitters and skirts not become a ski on track.
I put Bernie Machiavellian enough that he'd coax someone into a binding contract to build a circuit with so ambitious a schedule that he knows they can't fulfill it just so he can A) use them to pressure other potential US venues (Monticello Motor Club, Indianapolis, etc.), or B) extract a heavy cash penalty from them when they fail to meet the deadline.
I put Bernie Machiavellian enough that he'd coax someone into a binding contract to build a circuit with so ambitious a schedule that he knows they can't fulfill it just so he can A) use them to pressure other potential US venues (Monticello Motor Club, Indianapolis, etc.), or B) extract a heavy cash penalty from them when they fail to meet the deadline.
I think Bernie is going with "B", its a great way to bring in money to the FIA.
Red Mc Combs is going to be investing in it.
I live in San Antonio, Tx and he also owns the Spurs, Nuggets, Vikings, and ALOT of car dealerships
I put Bernie Machiavellian enough that he'd coax someone into a binding contract to build a circuit with so ambitious a schedule that he knows they can't fulfill it just so he can A) use them to pressure other potential US venues (Monticello Motor Club, Indianapolis, etc.), or B) extract a heavy cash penalty from them when they fail to meet the deadline.
I think Bernie is going with "B", its a great way to bring in money to the FIA.
Red Mc Combs is going to be investing in it.
I live in San Antonio, Tx and he also owns the Spurs, Nuggets, Vikings, and ALOT of car dealerships
Hey man, another guy from San Antonio here!
Although I'm not too into the American series racing I do like the typically American (I don't mean any disrespect at all by that btw) spectacle they make of their events and if they carry that over into new F1 facilities it would be fantastic. Lewis'll just have to keep a look out for Tex when he's leaving the circuit.
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