PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago
I think the FIA are trying to get away from Interlagos. It's getting too dangerous there now. Wasn't there suggestion of another circuit being used?
Yeah, but at the moment it is a rainforest and not likely to exist for a couple of years.... and then only if they can appease the local tree huggers into having 700,000 trees chopped down.
I'm not a tree hugger, but I am against further deforestation in South America. Especially just to build a racing circuit when South America already has so many amazing tracks they could fix up and race on instead
PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago
I think the FIA are trying to get away from Interlagos. It's getting too dangerous there now. Wasn't there suggestion of another circuit being used?
Yeah, but at the moment it is a rainforest and not likely to exist for a couple of years.... and then only if they can appease the local tree huggers into having 700,000 trees chopped down.
I'm not a tree hugger, but I am against further deforestation in South America. Especially just to build a racing circuit when South America already has so many amazing tracks they could fix up and race on instead
Agree with you on that.
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PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago
I think the FIA are trying to get away from Interlagos. It's getting too dangerous there now. Wasn't there suggestion of another circuit being used?
Yeah, but at the moment it is a rainforest and not likely to exist for a couple of years.... and then only if they can appease the local tree huggers into having 700,000 trees chopped down.
I'm not a tree hugger, but I am against further deforestation in South America. Especially just to build a racing circuit when South America already has so many amazing tracks they could fix up and race on instead
Agree with you on that.
have them have two races in Australia this year - Adelaide and Melbourne
PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago
I think the FIA are trying to get away from Interlagos. It's getting too dangerous there now. Wasn't there suggestion of another circuit being used?
Yeah, but at the moment it is a rainforest and not likely to exist for a couple of years.... and then only if they can appease the local tree huggers into having 700,000 trees chopped down.
I'm not a tree hugger, but I am against further deforestation in South America. Especially just to build a racing circuit when South America already has so many amazing tracks they could fix up and race on instead
Agree with you on that.
have them have two races in Australia this year - Adelaide and Melbourne
Where exactly would you hold it in Adelaide? The old F1 street layout is long gone, replaced by the shortened version of the track that Supercars USED to use before the South Australian Govt axed the Supercars race mainly on cost grounds in the current climate.. ie there is no current Adelaide street circuit.
It isnt by any means a given we will have any race in Australia this year... the rest of the world will have to smarten their Covid act up before F1 or anyone gets let in without isolated quarantining . We dont want your nasty European lurgy germs over here thank you very much. Not for the sake of a motor race anyway.
* I started life with nothing, and still have most of it left
“Good drivers have dead flies on the side windows!” (Walter Röhrl)
* I married Miss Right. Just didn't know her first name was Always
PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago
I think the FIA are trying to get away from Interlagos. It's getting too dangerous there now. Wasn't there suggestion of another circuit being used?
Yeah, but at the moment it is a rainforest and not likely to exist for a couple of years.... and then only if they can appease the local tree huggers into having 700,000 trees chopped down.
I'm not a tree hugger, but I am against further deforestation in South America. Especially just to build a racing circuit when South America already has so many amazing tracks they could fix up and race on instead
Agree with you on that.
have them have two races in Australia this year - Adelaide and Melbourne
Where exactly would you hold it in Adelaide? The old F1 street layout is long gone, replaced by the shortened version of the track that Supercars USED to use before the South Australian Govt axed the Supercars race mainly on cost grounds in the current climate.. ie there is no current Adelaide street circuit.
It isnt by any means a given we will have any race in Australia this year... the rest of the world will have to smarten their Covid act up before F1 or anyone gets let in without isolated quarantining . We dont want your nasty European lurgy germs over here thank you very much. Not for the sake of a motor race anyway.
I'd hold Adelaide in Adelaide. All the streets are still there
The board equivalent of the Jody scheckter chicane. Fast but pointless
PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago
I think the FIA are trying to get away from Interlagos. It's getting too dangerous there now. Wasn't there suggestion of another circuit being used?
Yeah, but at the moment it is a rainforest and not likely to exist for a couple of years.... and then only if they can appease the local tree huggers into having 700,000 trees chopped down.
I'm not a tree hugger, but I am against further deforestation in South America. Especially just to build a racing circuit when South America already has so many amazing tracks they could fix up and race on instead
Agree with you on that.
have them have two races in Australia this year - Adelaide and Melbourne
Where exactly would you hold it in Adelaide? The old F1 street layout is long gone, replaced by the shortened version of the track that Supercars USED to use before the South Australian Govt axed the Supercars race mainly on cost grounds in the current climate.. ie there is no current Adelaide street circuit.
then have it on one of Australia's minor tracks - say, Bathurst or so.
Antonov wrote: ↑3 years ago
then have it on one of Australia's minor tracks - say, Bathurst or so.
Minor? Bathurst?? Minor???
For @Antonov's benefit Bathurst is by far the most historically famous track in Australia..... Albert Park would probably even be behind Phillip Is;and which as I mentioned held the first AGP back in 1929, and has held the Motorcycle GP annually since the 1990s. Albert Park prior to the recent AGP was only used for a few 'one off races in the fifties for instance to promote the Melbourne Olympics etc. Bathurst also held many AGP's back in the non World Championship days.
* I started life with nothing, and still have most of it left
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* I married Miss Right. Just didn't know her first name was Always
Antonov wrote: ↑3 years ago
then have it on one of Australia's minor tracks - say, Bathurst or so.
Minor? Bathurst?? Minor???
For @Antonov's benefit Bathurst is by far the most historically famous track in Australia..... Albert Park would probably even be behind Phillip Is;and which as I mentioned held the first AGP back in 1929, and has held the Motorcycle GP annually since the 1990s. Albert Park prior to the recent AGP was only used for a few 'one off races in the fifties for instance to promote the Melbourne Olympics etc. Bathurst also held many AGP's back in the non World Championship days.
Not suitable now for F1 though. What about Phillip Island?
Antonov wrote: ↑3 years ago
then have it on one of Australia's minor tracks - say, Bathurst or so.
Minor? Bathurst?? Minor???
For @Antonov's benefit Bathurst is by far the most historically famous track in Australia..... Albert Park would probably even be behind Phillip Is;and which as I mentioned held the first AGP back in 1929, and has held the Motorcycle GP annually since the 1990s. Albert Park prior to the recent AGP was only used for a few 'one off races in the fifties for instance to promote the Melbourne Olympics etc. Bathurst also held many AGP's back in the non World Championship days.
Not suitable now for F1 though. What about Phillip Island?
Dont think PI has an FIA grade 1 license needed for F1. (There are only 43 world wide, and Albert Park is the only one is Aus.)
In fact I think PI is only Grade 3 for cars. Sandown is only Grade 3 (ie for "Category II Automobiles with a weight/power ratio of between 2 and 3 kg/hp.)
I guess PI would have Grade 1 certification for Motor Cycle Racing on the basis of the MotoGP Aus round is held there.
I think the only Grade 2 circuit in Aus is the Bend. (Maybe the Gold Coast as a hangover from the CART days I dont know.)
Oh, forgot Sydney Motorsports Park (aka Eastern Creek.) That is Grade 2)
* I started life with nothing, and still have most of it left
“Good drivers have dead flies on the side windows!” (Walter Röhrl)
* I married Miss Right. Just didn't know her first name was Always
PTRACER wrote: ↑3 years ago
I think the FIA are trying to get away from Interlagos. It's getting too dangerous there now. Wasn't there suggestion of another circuit being used?
Yeah, but at the moment it is a rainforest and not likely to exist for a couple of years.... and then only if they can appease the local tree huggers into having 700,000 trees chopped down.
I'm not a tree hugger, but I am against further deforestation in South America. Especially just to build a racing circuit when South America already has so many amazing tracks they could fix up and race on instead
Agree with you on that.
have them have two races in Australia this year - Adelaide and Melbourne
Where exactly would you hold it in Adelaide? The old F1 street layout is long gone, replaced by the shortened version of the track that Supercars USED to use before the South Australian Govt axed the Supercars race mainly on cost grounds in the current climate.. ie there is no current Adelaide street circuit.
then have it on one of Australia's minor tracks - say, Bathurst or so.
F1 in bathurst is a big lol. Also adelaide wouldn t meet f1 safety and paddock standards by far
Not sure about the source credibility (formula1news.co.uk), but February is likely to see the announcement of 3 cancellations: Monaco, Azerbaijan and Canberra.