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Think we are missing the point. Wimbledon might not be doing the trade it once was, but it is stilling pulling in drivers and crowds throug the winter months. I remember when we used to have thriving circuit racing winter series through ioctober and November kicked off by the Formula Ford Festival and the Grandstand FF2000 championship. We used to have thriving Rallycross events right through the winter, with racing at two tracks in Kent, with the Lydden Winter Series and the Shell Oils Championships. All these have gone, and the last two attempts to get a New Years Day Rallycross back, have had to be cancelled.
So nothing is as it was, but Wimbledon is our last Winter Sports Motorsport Venue. The land was ear marked for leisure and sport. And it is not a case of Wimbkedon AFC coming home, they never played in Plough Lane.
The save the Wimbledon campaign, is just a banger team, trying to give the sport a voice. I think they have done amazingly well in such a short time. Over 10,000 signatures, articles in papers, meetings with MP's and Councillors, and "ex Superstox 221" Derek Warwick voicing his support for grass roots Motorsport.
The question is, does London need really need another football pitch., at the expensive of the last of the Grand Old Stadiums.
Do we want choice, do we want the choice to be able to go short circuit motor racing during the winter months. Do we want somewhere that is warm and dry, where families go, and children can have their interest sparked in the whole world of Motorsport.
Looks like there is just one more day to sign the petition before the planning decision is reviewed by the Mayor of London.
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