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Le Mans at night is worse. Nobody in the grandstands (except some sleepers) and everybody trackside...

Because the grandstands cost a fair bit of money. I take my sleeping bag down to the Porsche curves at night and sleep trackside.

Slept up a tree at Rivage once ... the idea was that this would make it more difficult for people to rob me, I also enjoy climbing trees - the benefits were twofold.

He used to take his FXX on private runs at the Ring

A bit more about the proposed 2015 Thai GP
http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2013/04/26/t ... 2015-race/

Photo tour
http://cliptheapex.com/threads/photo-to ... oute.6201/

It would probably replace the unloved Korean GP.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

That layout looks fantastic. The bit around the rotary would be almost flat out too, it looks at least.

DRS everywhere, some say.

FIA will say it's too simple for F1 or something and change it.

I like the layout as it is now but they will almost definitely add some chicanes to it.

I'm guessing they'll run it in November (pretty dry and close to Singapore's race date).

And the long, fast left hander that follows. It could make a spectacular run to the 90° corner.

But they won't let it like that, they'll probably add curbs like Singapore, or use both sides of the boulevard to make a chicane around those central islands.

Anybody already read this, and if so, is it any interesting?


http://plus.autosport.com/premium/featu ... ore-uncut/

Kubica's been in the Mercedes F1 simulator:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/107081

Why would a Thai GP deliver more success than a Korean GP? This won't be any different.

Well over 100,000 people went to see Webber's demonstration run in 2010. Holding the race in a major city - as opposed to miles away from anywhere - also helps.

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

It's not in the middle of But-Fuk Nowhere?

I was a bit too quick with my post since I just saw that it will be a street race, but will it really make a difference? Will it really make Thailand love F1, just like they wanted with China, Turkey and Korea?

Only time will tell of course but I kind of hate the idea of jamming F1 into a country just because it has some potential.

It will help - you only have to look how Singapore has been an instant success.

If you build an okay circuit in the middle of nowhere in a country with no motor-racing heritage (apart from a few F3 races), then it's not exactly going to work.

China is becoming a popular race now - lots of enthusiastic fans; the problem there is the capacity is massive so it makes the place look emptier than it is. There's probably about the same spectators as Spa there

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Dan Wheldon | 1978 - 2011

Don't forget, Red Bull is a company from Thailand (marketing from Austria). So there is I think enough interest. Just like Malaysia with Petronas.

There's no need for people to 'love' F1. It's just about making an impressive event that is easy to be reached by many people. The appeal of the event itself is more than enough in such a case.

China is growing their interest in F1, and also the place where the circuit lies is getting different. We see new buildings in the skyline where there was nothing some years ago. Whilst Turkey and Korea had badly located circuits. Turkey with a circuit in the outskirts of an always traffic jammed Istanbul and Korea with a bizarre project of a new city that is making Magny-Cours looking like the best site of the world.

Meanwhile São Paulo's new mayor (Fernando Haddad) has confirmed he and Bernie Ecclestone have finally found a deal and Interlagos contract with Formula One is about to be extended until 2020, under the promise of various improvement works into the facility, what certainly includes an expansion to the pit lane area, boxes and possibly changing the finish line for what is currently the backstretch.

A recent research has proven Brazilian GP doesn't bring financial loss to the city (even with no big brazilian names in the series). The research also proves that the event's income exceeds the value of investments, what proves that, even If Bernie wanted to leave Brazil, he can't because it represents one of Formula One's biggest markets.