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i dont know how they could use it for f1 now.the road on is crap even compared ith silerstones old routes in.bernies company would have to spend a lot of money on opening up the rest of the circuit to spectators.it only has a license for 5000 people at the moment.and they would need to lift the booze ban.
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« Reply #16 on: March 31, 2012, 03:14:30 pm » |
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« Reply #17 on: March 31, 2012, 04:52:42 pm » |
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« Reply #18 on: April 01, 2012, 12:25:20 pm » |
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I see that Loeb has legged it down there to front his team after crashing out in Portugal (wow, that was some wreck.) Great timing on his part - hopefully he'll keep up French interest now that Peugeot has pulled out of sports car racing.
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« Reply #20 on: April 01, 2012, 02:47:14 pm » |
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cheers watching now.not many cars at race though.
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« Reply #21 on: April 01, 2012, 06:01:51 pm » |
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Small field, but great race.
Well done Johnny Crocker.
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I don't know why but I find Ricard in its present form is not very "telegenic" somehow. Whether it's my ageing eyesight or what, I'm not sure, but its open-ness, the lack of many barriers, and all the lines seem to take the edge off the racing for me. It's not at all evident when you're there but the TV seems to have a more negative effect there than on any other circuit.
Good race though and a great result for Team Loeb. He'll be almost glad he landed upside down now.
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I don't know why but I find Ricard in its present form is not very "telegenic" somehow. Whether it's my ageing eyesight or what, I'm not sure, but its open-ness, the lack of many barriers, and all the lines seem to take the edge off the racing for me. It's not at all evident when you're there but the TV seems to have a more negative effect there than on any other circuit.
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« Reply #24 on: April 02, 2012, 02:11:41 pm » |
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Looks like the Zolder round has been cancelled due to lack of entries.
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Nothing wrong with a little nostalgia, but a low car count on a relatively long circuit like Ricard is going to make things look sparse. I'm afraid not all's healthy with sportscar racing these days. The big marque events like Le Mans and Sebring are going to attract large grids, but the regular ALMS & LMS grids are looking a bit anemic, especially in the prototype ranks. The ALMS is being kept afloat by some terrific GT grids, but the LMP1 class is a joke. The Grand-Am series isn't any healthier, despite what some of the knuckleheads in Dayotna would have you believe. Their prototypes cost a fraction of a what a LMP1 car cost, and they can't assemble a full field.
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« Reply #26 on: April 03, 2012, 12:57:07 am » |
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Good race but I agree with termie that the circuit on television looked very untelegenic (great word Debs).
It almost looked like I was watching a stadard sized image on a wide screen, everything just looked so flat (including the cars).
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« Reply #28 on: April 03, 2012, 12:08:16 pm » |
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you say that....but it doesn't half take a pretty photo....
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« Reply #29 on: April 06, 2012, 08:06:40 am » |
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All this Paul Ricard conversation reminded me that I have a copy of the 1976 French GP on VHS tape. Broke it out tonight and watched it, with a good bottle of wine of course. It really hit home how lovely F1 was back then. A bright sunny day in Provence, huge crowd, James Hunt's McLaren M23 perfectly suited to the long straights and fast sweepers of Ricard, dominated the race, helped by both Ferrari's having their engines scatter, while at full chat on the Mistral (obviously the Maranello engine dept. tried to squeeze to much grunt for the passes down the straight). Really the beginning of James championship charge. Also great drives by Patrick Depailler in the P34, and Wattie in the Penske. Ricard is probably much more manicured now, but it was also a hell of a GP venue back then.
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