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| Ron Dennis...."ashamed to be English" | |
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| GordonB | Aug 29 2008, 11:59 AM Post #31 |
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What's with all these personal insults today?
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| John | Aug 29 2008, 12:02 PM Post #32 |
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Has Donington even completed planning the revisions... also... at a recent BMW Alpina track day at Donington Alpina brought their last competition race car the 1988 M3 driven by the son of the founder of Alpina... the car took to the circuit and after one lap was called back to the pit's ... it had fallen foul of the local councils noise limits... they after some handy work and reducing the revs managed to return to the track and complete the demo runs... what is the position noise wise going to be with Donington |
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| GordonB | Aug 29 2008, 12:03 PM Post #33 |
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Actually, nearly all of the ranting on this thread has been me ranting at John for calling me xenophobic. Nobody has actually ranted about "Them" & "Us". (Well, they might have, we certainly haven't )
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| SaveOurSilverstone | Aug 29 2008, 12:05 PM Post #34 |
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wish i'd never mentioned T5 now.
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| TheCompleteGuitarist | Aug 29 2008, 12:10 PM Post #35 |
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Well the Valencia vs Donnington British vs Spanish and the overtones of the british(english whatever) are evil for invading the rest of the world implications and direct needling is really uneccesary. |
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| AndyW76 | Aug 29 2008, 12:10 PM Post #36 |
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I think ron's coments really need to be taken into context. He is saying that he is ashame of the UK's inability to host a major motorsports event in the same way as valencia. I mean what do we have at the moment? Silverstone, which, athough a competent enough racing circuit, isn't exactly a glittering specticle. I certainly don't think he is bringing politics into this, except for may be a veiled prod about the lack of government assistance for motorsport (yet they seem to be able to afford the spend hundreds of billions on the olympics). |
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| Helmet | Aug 29 2008, 12:11 PM Post #37 |
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Now there's the difference. When someone wants to build a piece of infrastructure in the UK, we have months if not years of hand-wringing before a single sod is dug. For example: T5, the high-speed track to the channel tunnel, Coventry airport (yes, there is one) to name but few. Generally, the problem is nobody wants any of these in their own back yards. Whereas in France and Spain, the attitude is different - these type of projects are seen to bring prestige to an area. |
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| PiquetFan | Aug 29 2008, 12:11 PM Post #38 |
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Please gentlemen, let's keep the discussion civil. The personal insults are unnecessary. |
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| TheCompleteGuitarist | Aug 29 2008, 12:13 PM Post #39 |
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| John | Aug 29 2008, 12:16 PM Post #40 |
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regardless of personal views on the 2012 games... there is a difference in that the Olympics might say London Games... but the WILL reflect upon the whole country globally (good or bad).... should Britain fail to host a home GP.... it's impact globally will be far less... we because of our interest are more awear of it but to the average person in the street they will be less bothered either way. |
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| AndyW76 | Aug 29 2008, 12:23 PM Post #41 |
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I'm not agains't the olympics, it is just that the insame quantity of money spent on them could uprate every single major race circuit in the UK several times over, so may be a little government assistance shouldn't be too much of an ask. Also, if anyone believes that the olympic venues will be sustainable after the games, then they are kidding themselves. Investment in a race track would have ongoing earning potential after construction. |
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| John | Aug 29 2008, 12:40 PM Post #42 |
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simply because you wandered into my crosshairs at the wrong time... You where right of course to point out the irony in Ron's comment and had I not been having a below par day in work, I'd probably not have missed it It is always good to see you post and my flippant remark is for my part regrettable. John |
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| GordonB | Aug 29 2008, 12:43 PM Post #43 |
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| John | Aug 29 2008, 02:49 PM Post #44 |
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Uncle Ron disagrees with you Andy |
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| Norbert | Aug 29 2008, 02:55 PM Post #45 |
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I'm ashamed to be English after witnessing Ron Dennis. Never mind, I' m sure we'll both get over it. |
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