This looks intresting if anything comes of it. Why is Bernie Ecclestone always trying to get silverstone off the race calendar?. Ive never been to silverstone, but are the facilities that bad?.
This same thing was proposed a number of years ago (back in 2003, I think) - it's just regurgitating the same thing again, but now with some fancy renders.
Additionally, I'm loving the attention to detail... someone screwed up the texturing on the pitwalls stands in both images
Again... why is there a French flag on the side of the top part of the building (right) on the first picture?
No, it was there in the 50's. I'd like the new version to be a complete recreation of the 1950 layout (but with modern furniture), but that wouldn't happen.
The render looks nice. I hope the real track will be as good. I also wonder if the current facilities are that bad.
I've read about the road that connects to the track, but I also see another thing. IMO, the reason why Bernie always pushes Silverstone and other european tracks is that Formula 1 is like a financial pyramid. There is a demand for Grand prix-es from different countries, may are ready to invest and pay the fee for holding a GP, and all this leaves the tracks below the margin. AFAIR, Malaysia track has been sold, maybe not once. Turkey track was near the margin before it was fined by Mosley, and then Bernie took it over. Spa track lost the GP, because the revenue can't cover all the expenses.
So when there are emirates and Asian countries which want to waste money by making on their home GPs, F1's appetites increase constantly. In Europe where tracks are private, less and less can bear the same burden of expenditures on a GP (Spa Francochamps and Magny Cours IIRC quit F1 for financial reasons) while Quatar, thanks to oil prices, can donate money for a unprofitable undertaking, just for prestige. Malaysia and China initially did the same thanks to their economic growth.
There's nothing wrong with Silverstones facilities, Bernie just wants to get rid of Silverstone because it's owned by the BRDC (who he really doesn't like), all that nonsense about a London GP was just him trying to have a go at the BRDC.
There's nothing wrong with the current location of the pits, building a new pitlane where they're suggesting makes no sense, under those proposals the club and international circuits (the ones that are used for the majority of meetings) would still be on the old (very good) pit complex.
The Birkett Relay has about 250 cars in 50 teams competing on the club circuit. The Britcar race has about the same number of teams as well.
Huh? As far as I'm aware Spa has a contract to host the Belgian GP for a few more years at least. They just finished a huge renovation of the pits/paddock complex and a resurfacing of the circuit as well. Why would they spend all that money if they're going to lose the race?
As far as Silverstone goes, I honestly care more about the reprofiling of the circuit itself than the new pits/paddock complex. Hopefully they'll put Club back to the way it was before 1991. If necessary I'm sure they can increase the runoff rather than emasculating a formerly-great corner. And I hope they get rid off the Luffield complex mess at the end of the lap too, because it spoils the flow of what is mostly a very fast flowing track. Sector 1 is great.
Open up the exit of Stowe, get rid of the Vale left-hander to fix Club, and turn the Luffield complex into a single fast left-hander leading to Woodcote. Those changes would put Silverstone right up there with Spa and Suzuka.
it does? lol i know an F1 grid has 21 cars theres about. I peosonally think silverstone is the best facilitys of a track i've ever been too. It's the only one And i think the plans for the new pit garage is fugly.
whats elementary school? and fugly is a cross between two words. One of my mates went to brands hatch once and he videoed it and i thought silverstones facilitys looked better.
It was a general comment about your spelling. Elementary School is what we call Primary or First School. Hence the name - Elementary.
Yes, Silverstone has better facilities than Brands Hatch. But as Brands Hatch isn't an F1 venue, and won't be for a long time if ever, it's not relevent to this thread. The main problem with Brands isn't the quality of the facilites (although a bit crap these days), but the size available where they are. There simply isn't enough room for big transporters, and access is rubbish too. Hell, even we had problems backing up to the garages with a car and trailer!
The BRDC has screwed over Silverstone's spectators with attrocious facilities and lined its members' pockets with almost no re-investment for many, many years. It's definitely a most undeserving F1 venue, IMO. What really gets my goat is that they want money from taxpayers to do the place up, so they can shaft the same taxpayers with even more ridiculous entry fees, all over again, using the facilities we'll have already paid for to justify it. I say screw 'em, and drop it from the calendar.
The management decisions were largely down to Octagon, who had no idea how to run a motorsport venue and seriously damaged the reputation of all the tracks they ran (Silverstone + the Motorsport Vision circuits). Hopefully Silverstone will someday recover but it still has ridiculously expensive food, grandstands are closed at club meetings (for health and safety reasons :really and the paddock is a sea of fencing (which I suppose is a good thing as far as F1 is concerned but extremely annoying at smaller meetings.
. Why is Bernie Ecclestone always trying to get silverstone off the race calendar?. Ive never been to silverstone, but are the facilities that bad?.
and the paddock is a sea of fencing (which I suppose is a good thing as far as F1 is concerned but extremely annoying at smaller meetings.