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Old 3 Feb 2005, 10:30 (Ref:1216295)   #1
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An open letter to the Swiss
...I'm sure their goverment read this forum It's 50 years since the Le Mans disaster and motor racing has completely changed - isn't it time you legalised motorsport???
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 15:04 (Ref:1216587)   #2
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From the country whose greatest technological achievement was the.....

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Old 3 Feb 2005, 15:37 (Ref:1216622)   #3
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But this is the country which has the Cresta Run...!
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 15:59 (Ref:1216638)   #4
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Motorsport is not illegal in Switzerland - they have hill climbs.

Motor racing is however.
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 16:31 (Ref:1216667)   #5
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Oppression of human rights, surely?
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 17:56 (Ref:1216733)   #6
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Motorsport is not illegal in Switzerland - they have hill climbs.

Motor racing is however.
Are the hillclimbs not non-competive demonstrations?
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 17:57 (Ref:1216735)   #7
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The problem is, it's all very well legalising circuit racing again - and I certainly would like this to happen. The Swiss F3 championship is a strange affair with no races in the country it gets it's name from, and just Hill Climbs!
However, would anyone actually take this revocation of the law and build a circuit, or promote a street race? Would there be enough interest to justify any race? There's 2 stages required to get motor racing back in Switzerland, but even if step 1 is passed it'll be a long time before step 2 happens too...
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 18:05 (Ref:1216738)   #8
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The Swiss allow rallying and hillclimbing without a problem. They do not seem to be willing to change their stance on racing. But then again they have always been a bit silly, haven't they? No involvement in the war, nothing to do with the EU (not that this such a good thing). There is however a Swiss businessman / politician trying to get racing going again. I wish him a lot of luck.
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 18:57 (Ref:1216771)   #9
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Why Rallying and Hillclimbing?
After the horrendous Le Mans shunt a lot of countries banned motor racing. The Swiss banned events where more than one car was on the same bit of tarmac! So Rallying and Hillclimbing with staggered starts were OK and Motor Racing with cars banging into one another was banned.

If they wanted to they could have sprints on road circuits but would they be able to find anywhere flat enough!
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 19:20 (Ref:1216792)   #10
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No involvement in the war...
To be fair, they did have some involvement in the war, i.e. making a profit by stealing refugee gold.
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 20:13 (Ref:1216840)   #11
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Are the hillclimbs not non-competive demonstrations?



Like Goodwood.
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 21:20 (Ref:1216901)   #12
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Er..., Ensign14, didn't dare to say that. Have some Swiss customers! But you are right!
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Old 3 Feb 2005, 21:52 (Ref:1216920)   #13
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Like minds!
Congrats Carrera! I thought I was the only one who thinks Goodwood isn't a real hillclimb!
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Old 4 Feb 2005, 07:53 (Ref:1217186)   #14
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From the country whose greatest technological achievement was the.....

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So you've seen that movie too.
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[QUOTE=Eddy V]But then again they have always been a bit silly,

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No involvement in the war, nothing to do with the EU :
silly?

Different country, different ways and one that has a live and let live attitude to the rest of the world.

as for motor-racing. Well maybe they should allow it again, but they just get to go everywhere else to do it
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Old 4 Feb 2005, 10:04 (Ref:1217278)   #16
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Caught out!
Cybersdorf, I just had to put that in! After all it is TRUE!
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Old 4 Feb 2005, 10:40 (Ref:1217305)   #17
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Except for Ligniéres.
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Old 4 Feb 2005, 10:42 (Ref:1217309)   #18
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Cybersdorf, I just had to put that in! After all it is TRUE!
Well the British may have invented just about everything, but chances are a Swiss holding company now owns the rights.
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Old 4 Feb 2005, 14:06 (Ref:1217432)   #19
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Don't you just hate it when someone is right!
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Old 10 Feb 2005, 09:55 (Ref:1221765)   #20
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Just to correct a few points.Swiss hill climbs ARE competitive events and counted for the European Mountain Championship.They also have Slaloms-not down mountains but on flat airfields.
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Old 13 Aug 2007, 19:50 (Ref:1987839)   #21
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...I'm sure their goverment read this forum It's 50 years since the Le Mans disaster and motor racing has completely changed - isn't it time you legalised motorsport???
you are absolutly right and there is an effort being made by some parlamentariens but we dont have a big car lobby as we dont produce any cars anymore since the smart was sold to mercedes. obviously our goverment is slightly
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Old 13 Aug 2007, 20:06 (Ref:1987856)   #22
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They also have Slaloms-not down mountains but on flat airfields.
You mean what we wold call Autotests ?

Surely with Motorsport apparently making efforts at cleaning up it's environmental image...and we all know (collectively) the Swiss are known to be tree huggers.

Perhaps low emmission one make series (say the new Polo or Fiat Grande Punto) and other seen-to-be-clean race series might be the way to persuade the Swiss government back into motorsport.
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Old 13 Aug 2007, 20:16 (Ref:1987866)   #23
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No let them ban it, one of our competitors (Post Historic Tourers) commutes from Swizerland to compete with us in his beautiful CSL, their loss!
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Old 13 Aug 2007, 23:12 (Ref:1988019)   #24
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i thought this story was a few months old and the ban had been lifted??? anyway.. with schumacher and alonso now residents ...
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