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Driving-wise I definitely prefer Hockenheim, it feels for me it has more flow. But for spectators I think that T4 at the Ring is a pretty cool place, especially for pictures, while Hockenheim can't actually offer a decent seat in my opinion.

Hockenheim used to be something very special, narrow track, long straights that are slightly bend high speeds followed with difficult chicanes. Perhaps the racing itself was not always very good, but I didn't care.

I wish to report this post and suggest this member be banned recurringly for every F1 German Grand Prix.

it posed a unique challenge. Drivers without a decent engine knew they probably didn't stand a chance. But often higher performing engines went kaboom.

now it is just a track like others, a shame.

Yeaa, once unique now just another track in the crowd.

Old Hockenheim was flat out 220 mph straights and chicanes with no wing and a twisty bit at the end. Very simple to drive, but as said above, unique. It didn't produce races that set the world on fire, but was a throwback to the old days.

With engine restrictions, Kers/DRS all around the place, and 2012's bunched up field, it would have become the European Talladega.

Let's let it all out here, so that the German GP thread's first pages don't consist in whining about past glory for once

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114514

No overhaul of the weekend thankfully
Pre-season tests will take place in Europe

Here's an idea...

How about reducing the cost of hosting races and passing those savings on to the race goers.

Here's another idea...

How about reducing the cost of the TV rights so the sport is more accessible to the masses and then spreading out the TV revenues more equally amongst the teams.

Here's one more idea...

How about the sport's owners not having utter disdain for the paying public, be it in person or on TV, the sport's investors like the race promoters, the TV companies and the teams and think of some ideas that protects the interest of many instead of the very few.

It is not rocket science.

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That all sounds very logical, so I guess nothing of that will ever happen.

Course not, when have they ever been logical?

Shit just got sexy, yo.



Caption competition anyone?

How I like his driver skills and how I dislike this shit.

Don't do this and if you do at least grow some more mass. Which of course is not allowed in modern F1 so DON'T DO THIS.

Im kind of dissapointed they have ditched the tyre warmer ban. Was looking forward to seeing drivers actually have to work to get temps up which would have added some additional interest to the laps directly after pit stops.

I don't get the 'safety' argument as most other racing categories don't use tyre warmers & they seem to manage OK.


The FIA are also going to review the Perez/Massa crash:
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/114515

what we will get is

higher costs to host races and thus higher ticketprices

The sport will be further put away behind a paywall and the teams will get a smaller share of the tv revenues because Tamara Ecclestone's chihuahua needs a haircut every other week and the other week Tamara needs her bottox refilled.

and the disdain for the paying public will get worse.

Totally agree with you micha.

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StefMeister - I posted that Perez article in the Canadian GP thread earlier - viewtopic.php?p=781452#p781452

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what? why?

tire warmers are unnecessary

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That's what he says?

http://www.propstore.com/auction

they're auctioning Rush memorabilia

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