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Audi, Austin, Bernie Ecclestone, India, Interlagos, Kubica, Le Mans, Montezemolo, Track Safety
Audi, Austin, Bernie Ecclestone, India, Interlagos, Kubica, Le Mans, Montezemolo, Track Safety All Quiet
Thursday, April 21, 2011 at 11:52AM
It's an unusual break to the Turkish F1 race and it has gone quiet, well almost. Bernie's protesting loud and long that F1 is not for sale, and then adds anything's for sale if the price is right. Montezemolo has come out and admitted opposition to the new engine rules. That's good of him, we would never have known that from his carrying on about it for the last three months.
Some scuttlebutt from well connected people in Texas has suggested all may not be as it seems with the Austin deal, and forecast that the legislature would not pass the $25m hand out as reported yesterday. A friend also sent me a youtube video of the Indian track from March that shows a ribbon of asphalt and not much else. I don't want to sound like a negative person, I wish none of these ill, but as a construction engineer by profession and one who has always finished a track on time I have to wonder who is managing this stuff?
I am sad to hear of another death at the Interlagos track in Brazil. This was not in the area of the previous one, it was the left after the Senna Esses after the start. We have been spared these for a long while and must continue to push for safer tracks without making them sterile and boring. I agree with Sir Jackie Stewart that the rash of asphalt run off does not penalise a driver for a mistake, in fact it can be the fast line. Neither of us want to see drivers injured, so there must be a happy medium here somewhere. On that note it is great to here that Robert Kubica is to leave hospital soon.
Le Mans Test Weekend is this weekend. Should be interesting to see the new Audi, and if the "equalization" is working for the petrol brigade.
Some scuttlebutt from well connected people in Texas has suggested all may not be as it seems with the Austin deal, and forecast that the legislature would not pass the $25m hand out as reported yesterday. A friend also sent me a youtube video of the Indian track from March that shows a ribbon of asphalt and not much else. I don't want to sound like a negative person, I wish none of these ill, but as a construction engineer by profession and one who has always finished a track on time I have to wonder who is managing this stuff?
I am sad to hear of another death at the Interlagos track in Brazil. This was not in the area of the previous one, it was the left after the Senna Esses after the start. We have been spared these for a long while and must continue to push for safer tracks without making them sterile and boring. I agree with Sir Jackie Stewart that the rash of asphalt run off does not penalise a driver for a mistake, in fact it can be the fast line. Neither of us want to see drivers injured, so there must be a happy medium here somewhere. On that note it is great to here that Robert Kubica is to leave hospital soon.
Le Mans Test Weekend is this weekend. Should be interesting to see the new Audi, and if the "equalization" is working for the petrol brigade.
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