[Emulmans]

Originally posted by D-Type
Can I ask why you are trying to do this?

There are a lot of reasons..the mains are 1) the large offer of broadband lines: everywhere there are ADSL lines with 1 or more megabit, which allows to see quickly sites 2) script languages (PHP or ASP NET) which allow to create great dynamic sites which are like apps you use at office 3) to demonstrate that to create such things is more than possible...IT'S REAL! think: a lot of sites are beautiful ok..but after some times a few peoples remember it...my site is a real dynamic site which is ALWAYS updated, at every moment you can find new things..and this with the collaboration of a lot of peoples..if i did a static site i must wait for someone who send me some race result for example..but now everyone can do everything he wants...
And a lot of peoples write me and tell me that it's a great idea..for a lot of peoples who don't know the 99% of races in the world...a great site for beginners! and with the contribute of experts..

There are already several excellent sites listing results of different series, forix and silhouet.com come immediately to mindand there are others covering sports cars, NASCAR, CART etc. It would be far more useful to the motor racing community if you were to specialise in an area that has not been fully researched. As you are Italian, the Italian racing scene is an obvious choice: internationally you have the Italian GP, the Targa, the Mille Miglia, all the non-championship F1 races at Syracusa, Napoli, etc, the non-championship sports car races at Mugello, garda, etc. Then you have all the Italian national races. That would be a far more valuable task than simply plagiarising the research that has gone into other sites.

I don't want to plagiarising nothing...my source is the italian newspaper AUTOSPRINT from 1968,a nd i want to insert all the possible race results i find in its pages! and as you can see my site is very extensible: when you insert a race can insert comments on the race, on the winner, on the car, on the track..on EVERYTHING.
It's obvious that only passionate of racing can use and update my site and i think these passionates are intelligent enough to insert what they want to see. And to retrive all informations which are diffuclt to retrieve in other sites: for example for minor formulas.

You also appear to say that you want anybody to be able to add races and modify them. This is extremely dangerous and could destroy the credibility of your site. How long will it be before somebody decides it would be fun to add fictitious races or maybe in all sincerity add some of the spoof results that magazines have published on April 1st. If you look at some of the discussions on, for example, the AtlasF1 historical forum you will realise that even the contemporary published record is not necessarily correct. You would be better advised to invite contributions but insist on knowing the source and on checking them yourself.

if a record isn't correct..this is a great reason to see my site, to correct wrong datas! or not?

If you are really interested in recording motor racing history and publishing it on the web I suggest you would be well advised to contact the 'owners' of some established sites and offer to work in collaboration with them rather than set up in competition.

it would be a great idea..but also a little of competition is necessary to improve these sites or not?

Finally, as your site grows how do you propose to fund it?

you must think that i have this site for 25 euros every year..and if it grows i want to convert the database in MySQL, an OPEN SOURCE database..(thing that i am doing now...) where is the problem?