orangeNblue wrote:Holy crapsickle, I had no clue he was moving over to Nascar. Well that should be huge for that sport. They'll get a whole new set of fans from him being there.
Mr1der wrote:eh, props to him.
open wheel racing just can't make it here anymore...I blame the lack of interest in F1 due to there not being a good American driver or even an American team.
I guess we'll soon find out if your theory is right. The US Grand Prix (F1) returns in 2012 on a circuit being built near Austin TX. I was sorta hoping they'd return to Watkins Glen or use VIR.Chaotic_Warlord wrote:I'm sure if there were more F1 races stateside there would be more interest.
The closest F1 race we get is at Montreal, and Indycar (CART) is primarily stateside races, and there are quite a few American drivers/teams in Cart. After all a lot of the NASCAR guys do some time in CART plus the Andretti family is a staple of Indycar.
Well, there was talk initially about making Liberty State Park (Jersey City) an F1 track site, but it failed.Chaotic_Warlord wrote:I'd like to see some sort of race happen in downtown NYC or here in Philly.
That would be fun. I could see doing a Goodwood Revival sorta event for historics with a course thru Fairmont Park, but the city can't afford it, well, unless you want to higher taxes and bridge tolls than you are paying now.Chaotic_Warlord wrote:While I know the streets in Philly are horrendous, it would be pretty freaking awesome to watch some real race cars blast around the city, particularly down the parade route (Market st, Vine St, and around the the loop for the Ben Franklin Parkway. Not to mention the beautiful sound of some high revving race motors echoing off the buildings in center city would be like heaven.
That would be great but I think NJMP is too small.troskinatior wrote:Why dont they just have it at njmp? I love watching the 24 hour races
Monticello Motor Club's track is nice, but it's literally a private country club. Big membership fees. Their ownership tend to avoid big sanctioned series there. At most they tolerate occasional HPDE's with big national clubs, but you wll not likely see ALMS, F1 or Rolex there.troskinatior wrote:What about that track in NY, I think its like montigello or something
Thats so dumb, if people were watching f1 and they realized they were racing in ny I'm positive that some more people would join. I learned about njmp when they had rolex there like 3-4 years agoBubba1 wrote:Monticello Motor Club's track is nice, but it's literally a private country club. Big membership fees. Their ownership tend to avoid big sanctioned series there. At most they tolerate occasional HPDE's with big national clubs, but you wll not likely see ALMS, F1 or Rolex there.troskinatior wrote:What about that track in NY, I think its like montigello or something
It's not dumb. Monticello is different. Unlike NJMP, who will rent out their facilities to just about any club/sanctioning party, Monticello is an private, upscale country club whose main priority is catering to their core membership who pay $125,000 to join plus about $10K per year for the pleasure of running their cars there whenever they want. The only sanctioned events you might see at Monticello might be some sort of historic race they sponsor, or a pet charity concours d'elegance. Monticello does not seek spectators. They have rented the facility to some major car clubs, but they've also scaled that back. Im sure I'll drive on Monticello at some point in the next year with Audi or Mercedes, but I understand the management there is arrogant and takes away some of the funtroskinatior wrote:[Thats so dumb, if people were watching f1 and they realized they were racing in ny I'm positive that some more people would join. I learned about njmp when they had rolex there like 3-4 years ago
Uh, no. You imagine wrong. They were renting to clubs (no longer as often as their own membership grew), who were willing to pay their rent, supply insurance, and followed their more strict rules, including re-sodding fees if you go off track even once.troskinatior wrote:But they rent it out so people can drift tho, because there was 2 or 3 drift days there. Id imagine they would allow the biggest racing series ever over so drifters
considering two of the hosts on this show lost a driving competition to a blind man....... i will refer back to my other postPEZi720 wrote:i will refer to this as needed as this thread progresses.....Razi wrote:Top Gear must hire Greg, Jesda, and Pezi!
Jesda will go on about weird features on the cars he's driving, Pezi will do some cool powerslides, and Greg will whine about how the suspension is too stiff for his back.
the drift bit was sad. It pretty much confirmed the bearded fat guy and mole dude can barely drive. And they're already down to B list celebs after one show. If they're gonna make an exact clone of the UK show down to the last detail like Stig intro's, they might as well save a lotta money just use the British guys.PEZi720 wrote:[considering two of the hosts on this show lost a driving competition to a blind man....... i will refer back to my other post
Bubba1 wrote: they might as well save a lotta money just use the British guys.
