Comments on: Teams want more say over F1 venues

By: James Allen

James Allen — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 17:16:29 +0000

Not necessarily; Bahrain and Malaysia are very wide tracks and it’s hard to pass at the latter. However wide the track is, off line it[s slippery with the rubber fragments and dust that accumulate

By: classjazz

classjazz — Sun, 13 Sep 2009 08:03:30 +0000

May I ask a question?
I don’t have access to my motor sport reference books at the moment but it strikes me – could be mistaken – that the width of F1 circuits has decreased over the years.
If the circuit was wider there would be more room for overtaking – simplistc view I know as the drivers will all go for the racing line, but would it not encourage the adventurous and competitive drivers to overtake on a piece of road not on the racing line?

Perhaps the width of the modern F1 car has increased since I first watched the Maserati’s and BRM’s.

By: Roberto

Roberto — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 14:44:36 +0000

Hi James, although is July 30th i hope you can read this reply and if possible give us you thoughts about it.

If there is a time when Formula 1 needs to make a full comeback to North America is now. As contrary as this may sound, the F1 name has been a all over in the principal media networks since the Honda fall out, if you see the CNN.com website, every racing weekend they have the headines with the polesitter and next day with the news of the race results, which in 7 years that i lived there never happened.

The Massa accident was covered by them in full swing and it was on the top 5 headlines until wednesday, and yesterday the announcement of Schumacher comeback was there too. Nascar and IRL are in serious decline and if the F1 power players make the right moves they could start again in the US & Canada with higher ratings and attendance than ever.

By: James Allen

James Allen — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 07:15:35 +0000

Loved it. My favourite was Laguna though. Great track, fantastic surroundings. You’d certainly pull a big crowd in California

By: philipb

philipb — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:49:13 +0000

Although the US does not have a huge concentration of F1 fans we do have excellent facilities and cheap travel & accommodation. In other words, for a European live racing fan we could often make more economic sense for a visit than the Middle East & certainly Asia.

By: Rudy Pyatt

Rudy Pyatt — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 00:26:33 +0000

Thanks for linking this. If there’s no race over here, the teams should at least do more things like this. A lap of Indy proper? Fontana? Watkins Glen? ROAD AMERICA! PLEASE!

Heck, let Heidfeld really go for it at the real ‘Ring. If a they can run a 24hr touring car race there; if anyone can roll up in a street car; if anyone can roll up on any motorcycle, just by paying a few marks/euros; why can’t “the best in the world” turn five laps there?

By: Rudy Pyatt

Rudy Pyatt — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 23:46:25 +0000

Yup. And Road Atlanta (Petit LeMans after all!) and Road America. What was your impression any of these when you covered CART James, especially Elkhart Lake?

By: Harveyeight

Harveyeight — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 20:53:48 +0000

I’d love to come. Any chance of putting me and some friends up for a month or so?

I’m sorry if my meaning wasn’t too clear. I meant that F1 is based in Europe but should still retain it’s old haunts, including Australia, Canada, the USA and not go off to such places as Turkey. Indeed, I feel we should return to South Africa. F1 was happy engough to go there during apartheid so it’s only fair that we should make the effort now.

No insult to Oz meant. It’s such fan bases that make the sport.

By: Danny Q

Danny Q — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:20:05 +0000

Thanks James! That’s why you are the best!

By: James Allen

James Allen — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 18:18:17 +0000

I’m on the case with Iley, will post on that tomorrow, Danny.