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Modenafan
10-08-2008, 02:32 PM
http://www.canada.com/montrealgazette/story.html?id=6f93a831-bb63-4d6e-8002-3d0d8de5486e
Moving Chicane
10-08-2008, 02:46 PM
Still no reason provided, eh?
Modenafan
10-08-2008, 02:53 PM
They got tired of the long walk around the island. :D
96740
10-08-2008, 09:27 PM
The Homeless/Panhandler union must have brandished there politcal power. :D
HWJunkie
10-09-2008, 11:31 AM
The old races are dropping like flies.... Pretty soon all the classic tracks will be gone and the new "singapore like" tracks will take over...
Modenafan
10-09-2008, 11:40 AM
The old races are dropping like flies.... Pretty soon all the classic tracks will be gone and the new "singapore like" tracks will take over...

I'm kind of bummed because a few of us were going to go back for the Canadian G.P. I had a great time in Montreal last time I went to the race. :( Hopefully they'll bring back a race to the U.S., maybe in L.V.?
HWJunkie
10-09-2008, 12:20 PM
I'm kind of bummed because a few of us were going to go back for the Canadian G.P. I had a great time in Montreal last time I went to the race. :( Hopefully they'll bring back a race to the U.S., maybe in L.V.?

I have heard hints of a US GP, and who knows, it could be in Vegas but I doubt it will be like I first heard where the track went straight down Las Vegas Blvd... It's one thing to have a race on the Streets of Valencia Spain in a commercial area, but to have it in Downtown Las Vegas where there's all the casinos, I seriously doubt they will do that, but maybe they'll put it somewhere else in Vegas? The thing with the F1 tracks is that besides having to pay Bernie $10 mil + just to have the race, they have to build a couple hundred million dollar track, with permanent pits and paddock area.....
peter456
10-09-2008, 05:17 PM
hey there HW Junkie, sounds like you got it right with the Bernie reference but you might be allot low in the dollar amount - big politics, big money, no room for the little guy but to sit back and watch. Too bad America has soured on F-1.
Moving Chicane
10-09-2008, 05:20 PM
Too bad America has soured on F-1.

Too bad America wasn't raised on F-1.
HWJunkie
10-09-2008, 07:02 PM
I may be a little low on the $10 mil figure but that was just the fee to let the GP happen at a particular track, that doesn't include all the other costs, just the cost for Bernie to say ok...LOL
96740
10-09-2008, 07:09 PM
I say have it in down town NY. Have the straight run past the stock exchange. They could use the energy. :D Plus the sound of those engines would sound great bouncing off the buildings.
Modenafan
10-09-2008, 07:13 PM
Unfortunately if F1 comes back to the U.S. in 2010 as rumored, it will probably have to be at Indy again. :(
Modenafan
10-09-2008, 07:14 PM
I say have it in down town NY. Have the straight run past the stock exchange. They could use the energy. :D Plus the sound of those engines would sound great bouncing off the buildings.

N.Y. would be fun. How about Watkins Glen? Okay, they're not set up for it but it's a cool track.
96740
10-09-2008, 07:39 PM
That would be a nice "American" track. Why not?