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Well, to be fair. Silverstone was a complete shithole. Teams were operating in garages where the roofs leaked, and McLaren actually brought in joiners to fix the garages for several years (when they got allocated different ones) because they refused to operate various pieces of equipment like that. Those garages still haven't been fixed, even after the rebuild, and the old garages (which are still used by LMS and various other series) are just rotting away, whilst still in use. Silverstone also had the worst traffic of any race by a significant margin, and made excuses such as weather (ignoring Spas weather), and even after the new roads were built, 3 hour jams for low attendance races such as ILMC were still common.

I know it's cool to hate Bernie and there are some valid points here, but Silverstone was a rotting circuit being run by idiots who needed a boot up the arse. With the UKs motorsport history, to stick teams in garages and paddock areas that were less secure than my garden shed was an embarrassment to our history.

People seem very quick to blame everybody but the track, ignoring what the teams go through on a weekend. Mangy Cours is another example of that.

Mugello? hahahaha

crazy idea here but what if Bernie stopped asking so goddamn much money from the tracks and let them keep the trackside sponsor income for themselves?
I know it's really utterly insane but maybe if they made a profit they could maintain the track and it's buildings.

That and, and I have this on good authority because my dad lives right next to Donington and knows someone who worked for the construction company who were employed to work there (great sources), nothing that was done at Donington was constructive towards actually changing the track, they were basically just moving land round for the hell of it.

So did they magically find the money to build new extensions out of no where? Because they're on the same contracts, but seemed to get their arses in gear once the race was about to go didn't they? Maybe it's more the fact that drivers clubs (which is all the BRDC is), aren't really great businesses? Imagine that - a group of random guys who can drive cars really fast aren't that great at managing multi-million dollar businesses.



They also dug a massive tunnel and dug up the track, removed buildings, bridges etc etc. So whilst it was obviously a ploy to get Silverstone moving (which everybody knew anyway, right from day 1), they did more than move some land about.

THat person who spent all his time in the Donington Grand Prix simulator of the proposed layout instead of getting any work done?

Seriously, he had the top 20 laptimes on it or something haha

Maybe I'm getting older and grumpier, but I like to think it's more a case of F1 making stupid decisions and slowly killing itself. I guess the classic tracks just don't have the facilities to accomodate all the luxury motorhomes. Oh well, screw what the fans think. They only pay a ludicrous amount to turn up each weekend and get sod all value for money.

Monza to go after 2016?

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114743

Ricciardo says nearly all the F1 drivers were against standing restarts
http://www.f1zone.net/news/ricciardo-dr ... rts/41803/

I imagine just about anyone in the sport with any common sense was against it.

Bernie divided and conquered them years ago, now we're all having to put up with the consequences.

Teams only care about themselves. Sure most interviews had them saying they didn't like double points, but when the chance came to say so they didn't. They just got on with trying to ensure the rules helped them.
No monza is balls and I wonder if teams like FI or Williams can afford 3 cars? We know they run a tight budget in the midfield.
I hope this is just Bernie mixing it up, cause this morning I just feel pissed off with the sport.