- 22 May 09, 19:17#120338
Hmm, well in my opinion the obvious answer has been staring us all right in the face. The very circuit owned by a company called Excelis. Excelis is one of Bernie's companies. Paul Ricard.
Paul Ricard have said they are considering lodging an entry to host the french GP now.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75516
and so I started thinking. Really it's a circuit that benefits everyone.
It keeps the FIA happy, because it's one of the safest racing circuits there is. Bernie is happy, because it's got great modern facilities which he can use to invite rich fat cat to races, in order to get more money to finance his divorce.
The fans are happy, because there's room for overtaking, and the straight down the back is used for landing small jets. Plently of overtaking then, rather than having another street race in Paris where overtaking will be next to impossible. Not to mention, the Paul Ricard circuit has a sprinkler system installed. Forget night racing, manufactured wet races are the way to go.
My question is, why shouldn't we race at Paul Ricard next year. It's a unique and interesting track, and really I don't see any other better option. Do we want yet another street circuit, like Valencia, no. Nor do we want another generic Herman Tilke circuit, built just because of F1, that doesn't get used by anyone else and costs stupid amounts of money. I read an article about a guy who went to Paul Ricard for a day not so long ago. He got to race a few GT3 cars around the circuit, and at the end of the day he said, "If Carlsberg made race tracks, they'd make Paul Ricard"
Paul Ricard have said they are considering lodging an entry to host the french GP now.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75516
and so I started thinking. Really it's a circuit that benefits everyone.
It keeps the FIA happy, because it's one of the safest racing circuits there is. Bernie is happy, because it's got great modern facilities which he can use to invite rich fat cat to races, in order to get more money to finance his divorce.
The fans are happy, because there's room for overtaking, and the straight down the back is used for landing small jets. Plently of overtaking then, rather than having another street race in Paris where overtaking will be next to impossible. Not to mention, the Paul Ricard circuit has a sprinkler system installed. Forget night racing, manufactured wet races are the way to go.
My question is, why shouldn't we race at Paul Ricard next year. It's a unique and interesting track, and really I don't see any other better option. Do we want yet another street circuit, like Valencia, no. Nor do we want another generic Herman Tilke circuit, built just because of F1, that doesn't get used by anyone else and costs stupid amounts of money. I read an article about a guy who went to Paul Ricard for a day not so long ago. He got to race a few GT3 cars around the circuit, and at the end of the day he said, "If Carlsberg made race tracks, they'd make Paul Ricard"
Last edited by cap-dude on 22 May 09, 22:28, edited 1 time in total.
Just checking you know those blue and red stripes are special type of run-off.
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