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[McLaren Fan]

From Planet F1:

Sunday 3rd August 2008

Hungarian Grand Prix organisers have today signed a new deal with Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone to stage the race through to 2016.

The race has been held at the Hungaroring circuit on the outskirts of Budapest since 1986, with its current deal due to terminate in 2011.

But following a meeting between Ecclestone and Istvan Gyenesei, the Hungarian Minister Responsible for Sport, a five-year extension has been agreed.

[darwin dali]

Unfortunately! I just don't like this track!

[Rivelution]

:yawn:
Unfortunately! I just don't like this track!

Ditto, its to bland.

[7UpJordan]

Why does Bernie love crap tracks and keeps saying how he'd love to get rid of the good tracks? Money, schmoney it's always the same thing...

[darwin dali]

Why does Bernie love crap tracks and keeps saying how he'd love to get rid of the good tracks? Money, schmoney it's always the same thing...

I just wonder how this dinky circuit can fulfill BE's $$ demands? How can they be more profitable than, e.g., Nürburgring or Hockenheim or...?

[McLaren Fan]

I was thinking the same. Surely there is not a lot in Hungary in terms of manufacturing etc. I've never really read a lot into it, but to me Hungary has always seemed a bit of a nothing place for Grand Prix. Certainly not the kind of place to which Ecclestone goes.

[darwin dali]

I was thinking the same. Surely there is not a lot in Hungary in terms of manufacturing etc. I've never really read a lot into it, but to me Hungary has always seemed a bit of a nothing place for Grand Prix. Certainly not the kind of place to which Ecclestone goes.

It must be all those Finns (Hungarian is a close relative to Finnish) and Poles that annually trek to the GP Hungary.

[Denthúl]

Well, quite possibly, DD. There's no doubting that Robert Kubica is only going to get better and, as a result, more popular. I'm not sure what sport is like in Poland at the moment, but it seems rare that we hear of a really successful sports person from there that gains the kind of status that Kubica has. When BMW Sauber are fighting for the titles (which will be very soon, I hope) then F1 may become even more popular in Poland. Likewise, with two Finnish drivers in the field and no home race, the Finns have plenty of reason to go there, especially as both of their guys are in the top two cars.

[Kiwi_Chris]

NOOOOOOOOO, this is a joke we lose a good track in Silverstone and he signs a deal with a s*** hole like the Hungoraring. Bernies personal prefrances on which circuts are considered 'World Class' and which ones arnt is a joke, Noone could say that that track facilites there are as good as say Bahrain or China.
This is another example that the F1 management has become a joke Bernie has done a lot for the sport but i think he is doing more harm than good now demanding things from some circuits and letting other circuts carry on as is

[przemo]

It must be all those Finns (Hungarian is a close relative to Finnish) and Poles that annually trek to the GP Hungary.

Our commentators on TV said 1/3 of the tickets were sold to Poles, but I don't think anybody was checking ID's, so I don't know how true this is. But the people that went said there was at least several tousands of polish people there. Before Robert there were almost no Poles in Hungary
Right now Kubica is clearly the most popular sports-man in Poland. In 2005 roughly 200 thousand people watched F1, now that number is about 4 millions. You can imagine how the number of his fans increased this year.

[McLaren Fan]

It must be all those Finns (Hungarian is a close relative to Finnish) and Poles that annually trek to the GP Hungary.

Our commentators on TV said 1/3 of the tickets were sold to Poles, but I don't think anybody was checking ID's, so I don't know how true this is. But the people that went said there was at least several tousands of polish people there. Before Robert there were almost no Poles in Hungary
Right now Kubica is clearly the most popular sports-man in Poland. In 2005 roughly 200 thousand people watched F1, now that number is about 4 millions. You can imagine how the number of his fans increased this year.

Not unlike how Formula One's popularity in Spain increased, then. Kubica is a class act. It's good that his compatriots are taking notice of him.

[EwanM]

It must be all those Finns (Hungarian is a close relative to Finnish) and Poles that annually trek to the GP Hungary.

Our commentators on TV said 1/3 of the tickets were sold to Poles, but I don't think anybody was checking ID's, so I don't know how true this is. But the people that went said there was at least several tousands of polish people there. Before Robert there were almost no Poles in Hungary
Right now Kubica is clearly the most popular sports-man in Poland. In 2005 roughly 200 thousand people watched F1, now that number is about 4 millions. You can imagine how the number of his fans increased this year.

Not unlike how Formula One's popularity in Spain increased, then. Kubica is a class act. It's good that his compatriots are taking notice of him.

Yeah I was gonna say. Studying that region of the world, it wouldn't be viable for many of the FSU countries to build a track suitable to F1. Hungary offers Eccelstone the perfect chance to bring F1 to the Finns and now the poles, and I guess he can claim the sport tenders for that region?

[przemo]

It must be all those Finns (Hungarian is a close relative to Finnish) and Poles that annually trek to the GP Hungary.

Our commentators on TV said 1/3 of the tickets were sold to Poles, but I don't think anybody was checking ID's, so I don't know how true this is. But the people that went said there was at least several tousands of polish people there. Before Robert there were almost no Poles in Hungary
Right now Kubica is clearly the most popular sports-man in Poland. In 2005 roughly 200 thousand people watched F1, now that number is about 4 millions. You can imagine how the number of his fans increased this year.

Not unlike how Formula One's popularity in Spain increased, then. Kubica is a class act. It's good that his compatriots are taking notice of him.

Yeah I was gonna say. Studying that region of the world, it wouldn't be viable for many of the FSU countries to build a track suitable to F1. Hungary offers Eccelstone the perfect chance to bring F1 to the Finns and now the poles, and I guess he can claim the sport tenders for that region?

Well, another track that is fairly close to Poland (and even closer to Finland) is in Germany, but over there there's always trouble with tickets, because F1 in Germany is pretty popular and Germans buy most of them . To Hungary Poles can go in greater numbers
And it's true with the notion of building a track. There was or is a project of building it in Poland, but no one believes this will happen and even Kubica said it has no way of being successful, because we don't have money to support the track. So, for polish folks this topic may actually be good news

[EwanM]

It must be all those Finns (Hungarian is a close relative to Finnish) and Poles that annually trek to the GP Hungary.

Our commentators on TV said 1/3 of the tickets were sold to Poles, but I don't think anybody was checking ID's, so I don't know how true this is. But the people that went said there was at least several tousands of polish people there. Before Robert there were almost no Poles in Hungary
Right now Kubica is clearly the most popular sports-man in Poland. In 2005 roughly 200 thousand people watched F1, now that number is about 4 millions. You can imagine how the number of his fans increased this year.

Not unlike how Formula One's popularity in Spain increased, then. Kubica is a class act. It's good that his compatriots are taking notice of him.

Yeah I was gonna say. Studying that region of the world, it wouldn't be viable for many of the FSU countries to build a track suitable to F1. Hungary offers Eccelstone the perfect chance to bring F1 to the Finns and now the poles, and I guess he can claim the sport tenders for that region?

Well, another track that is fairly close to Poland (and even closer to Finland) is in Germany, but over there there's always trouble with tickets, because F1 in Germany is pretty popular and Germans buy most of them . To Hungary Poles can go in greater numbers
And it's true with the notion of building a track. There was or is a project of building it in Poland, but no one believes this will happen and even Kubica said it has no way of being successful, because we don't have money to support the track. So, for polish folks this topic may actually be good news

They maybe will once he becomes Poland's first world champion

[8-ball]

As much as Kubica's success would be good for Poland I don't see Bernie having a GP there or the Poles funding it. They are co hosting the Euro 2012 championship with Ukraine and football has always been their best sport and still didn't want to cough up all the money. The best Kubica can hope for in the country is a street named after him. Or maybe a grocery store...