Bigpower

Instead of joining those BP professsionals TK & Russ at Santa Pod on Sunday I am heading off to Silverstone to see some amatuers playing with High-Tech systems that help get them round the circuit at high speed but is this the last time we will gather at Silverstone to watch F1 indeed will we gather anywhere to watch F1 in the future?

I am sure that the runpus over who is in and who is out next year is just posturing you only need look at the sucsess or otherwise of A1 GP to appreciate how specila F1 is and the wealth it generates to say nothing of the technological advances in evrey day cars (Bl**dy GTRs)

It will go on but not sure where, Donnington is a great circuit to drive but has very low noise levels with direct line to the Local Authority if exceeded (Dont you just love Vivil Servants) but it is not a GP circuit and not sure that

Many twists and turns for this situation yet I think.

What we all have to hope is that Max gets booted out, then hopefully it'll all be about racing again and not him trying to dictate everything.

For the people working in the industry, its an unsettling time, as if this budget cap comes into forces thousands of people will be out of work. F1 and motosport is the 3rd biggest export that this overpopulated expensive badly run country has! The amount of supplier that F1 uses alone is massive!

PS. Enjoy yourself Harry

Bloody noisy things

Too true Logan.

People think of it as a waste of money but the money is NEVER wasted. It goes to the next company (again UK based), then another UK company until it goes into UK employees pockets. Far better for that all to be circulating around and stimulating the economy and keeping people in jobs than not spent at all.

It is impossible to waste it - it has to go somewhere.

blacky wrote:Many twists and turns for this situation yet I think.

What we all have to hope is that Max gets booted out, then hopefully it'll all be about racing again and not him trying to dictate everything.

For the people working in the industry, its an unsettling time, as if this budget cap comes into forces thousands of people will be out of work. F1 and motosport is the 3rd biggest export that this overpopulated expensive badly run country has! The amount of supplier that F1 uses alone is massive!

As you say Logan, I recently went to the Red Bull F1 factory and I was amazed how much technology, staff and technical sections there is there the machinery for making things is out of this world and this is one part of one trace team.

lets just hope that they sort things out soon as this may be the end as we know it.

This has been threatened before a few years ago and came to nothing. Max Mosley's interview on BBC yesterday was interesting and there was some sense in what he was saying. It was on BBC news 24 in the multi-screen sports section (press the red button)

Budget capping is sheer lunacy where state of th art technology is concerned. R&D will be the hardest hit which means losing loads of bloody talented engineers to other industries overseas and it'll take years to recover.

IMO