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The thing with Hamilton's contract is that a lot of that money could come from personal sponsorship deals that have already been signed.

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He only had Reebok as a personal sponsor. But with his current management that will probably change.

lol whatta joke.

Probs going to be a bunch ridiculous long lines of silly security checks like there usually is there. When I was in Montreal they didn't even ask to check inside my camera bag, simply gave them the ticket and walked in. No lines.

Well.... Pretty much.

They allow cameras now? Wow, that's huge.

But as the race is held in Texas, I'm expecting this fb-update from COTA:

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Interesting that the race at New Jersey next year will be called "Grand Prix of Jersey" and not Grand Prix of America.

Strictly speaking no, they don't. They just don't check a lot of the time. Pot luck.

Considering America is North and South America, not interesting at all, purely logical.

You could have called it "United States Grand Prix" (Austin) and "Grand Prix of America" (New Jersey), purely logical.

Or the American Grand Prix.

Or Redneck and Douchebag

Via twitter

Gutierrez at Sauber is to be confirmed on Tuesday, according to Carlos Slim Jr.

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Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

Looking at the 2013 calendar again, it's very disappointing...F1's calendars keep going down low year after year:

- No return of a French Grand Prix;
- Two GPs at a country where the guarantees of success are not completely proven (USA);
- No return of an Austrian Grand Prix (even after Zeltweg being reformed by Red Bull).
- No Imola back, even after local facilities being reformed and modernized.
- South-Korean GP still on, even after so many problems regarding their organization and low popularity.
- Perspectives are worse for 2014, when it's believed another asian country joins the calendar (Thailand), transforming F1 in a definetly Asian series, at the best of "Gangnam Style".
- Thus it will be remaining only a Bangladesh GP, with Tuk-Tuk races as preliminary event.

Imola isn't coming back because
- The first turn is fucking ridiculous
- Italy's economy is still buggered

France isn't on the calendar because
- Magny Cours and Paul Ricard can't agree
- The Socialist government won't fund it

Korean GP is on because they have a 7 year contract. It is still provisional, but F1 is going. Bernie won't cancel the race because he has a contract. It will only be cancelled if the race promoters decided to pull the can

Regarding Austria, Red Bull always said it would just be for events such as DTM, not F1.

Also, I wonder what fans want. Lots of people seem to go ZOMG Barcelona is shit, ZOMG Valencia sux, Silverstone is crap, Hungaboring. And then go 'WE NEED MORE EUROPEAN RACES!!!!1111'. Yeah, ok.

A lot of European races are struggling because the majority are funded privately and sponsors are hard to come by. A lot of the Asian countries see F1 as a way of promoting the country and governments are willing to throw money at the sport. In 10 or 15 years time, that situation might be a whole lot different and the calendar might become more European again. Who knows.

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whats so ridiculous about imola's first turn?

A kink and a concrete wall. It's not that safe.

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Seriously now, are you on drugs?

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That's the final turn I thought.

I'll say it again, if they can run Monaco they can run there. I don't care if Monaco is "grandfathered in." The fact they're running there now means they can run anywhere. They obviously feel like the track is safe enough to run on, or else they wouldn't.

That and if they're being pussies about it, there's that shit chicane on the outside of the straightaway.