| Re: Urgent! F1 Austin opposition |
Subject: Re: Urgent! F1 Austin opposition by bogus on 2011/6/23 1:16:40 This is a good point of view... And I respect Dutch a lot: http://www.autoweek.com/article/20110 ... Open_Letter_to_the_Austin,_Texas,_City_Council_and_the_citizens_of_that_fair_city&utm_campaign=awdailydrive Read that. It's worth it. And yes, I think he is ultimately right. Until Bernie is gone, we will have issues with F1. I will say this, I don't know what was going on with Tony George when he thought he could play chicken with F1 and win. Bernie is a cruel businessman. He will get his pound of tribute. At all costs. This does not change my feeling that the track is a good idea. I think it is. I also think that F1 should be run at the Glen, but the area cannot support the circus anymore. I feel this track could get NASCAR, Indy, GrandAm, ALMS, Porsche Cup and Ferrari Challenge events, plus SCCA and MotoGP and would be a rip-snorting success. There are one reason this track is being built - they want F1. They tried with Texas World a few years back... Its amazingly still open, but gee... will it last with this new track? Texas World is in College Station, about 100 miles east. About 50 miles NW of Houston and 150 miles NE of San Antonio. Texas World was in the boondocks, and it never resulted in the infrastructural investments expected - an airport comes to mind! When I say NASCAR, there is Truck, N-wide and various other regional level NASCAR events that could be run there. ALMS is looking for good locations; they dropped Miller because there was no one there to watch! Great track, 8k miles from no where. For F1 to run, it's a $25m fee... Australia is losing money with every GP run. But this means they need to sell tickets to enough ppl, with enough charges and tax income to make that work. This means each person will have to contribute $250 in tax revenue. Even if their sales tax was 10%, it would take everyone to spend nearly $2500 ea!! Just a few thoughts... |
