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Look you lot first time in ages I put up a sensible post and you’ve all gone daft .
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Balls of steel (knob of butter) They're Asking For Larkins. ( Proper beer) not you're Eurofizz crap. Hace más calor en España. Me han conocido a hablar un montón cojones! Send any cheques and cash to PO box 1 Lagos Nigeria Africa ! |
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Hehehe, I am currently up the coast a bit from you Gordon, but still warm, and just returned home from watching Singapore F1 qualy in a beach bar, also a bit dafter now than I was a couple of hours ago.
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20 Sep 2018, 14:32 (Ref:3851608) | #258 | ||
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2019 dates just announced as 13-15 Sep, which this year was the weekend of the Spa Six Hours. So either one of them moves or some forum regulars here are going to have a choice to make!
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The one thing still true to period at Goodwood is that it is dangerous. As in the fifties and sixties, standing on the bankings carries a small but real risk of serious or fatal accident.. Enthusiasts know that and think it small price for the enjoyment gained. I suggest the majority of the people who attend would, in this era of extreme risk aversion, be horrified to know that they and their families were not totally protected from harm by the organisers.
Goodwood has a already had many fearsome accidents including a car in the spectator tunnel and a driver thrown from the car at the start line. I still recall the horrible silence after Jack Brabhams crash. That no one has been seriously hurt is down to pure chance and good fortune. That will surely not always be the case and the worst will one day happen. No one will be able to say the accident was unforseeable and all hell and recrimination will take place affecting not only Gilded Goodwood but other tracks as well. Lord March plays fast and loose with our sports future. Like it or not, modern society will not tolerate risk and danger and will want it stopped. |
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I really enjoyed it, down side, air displays in the year the RAF celebrate their centennial were restricted to early morning. Am assuming safety issues.
Yes I do worry that when a huge accident does happen it could be the end, His Grace has got away with things other circuits cant, flag drop to start, a 3 2 3 grid and no catch fencing. Am not complaining we attend at our own risk but assume ambulance chasers will go to town one day |
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Give it ten years or so and the interest may have evaporated anyway. By all accounts the younger generations are, overall, less inclined to want to drive and quite honestly as far as this country goes I can understand why. The road infrastructure is truly dreadful and unlikely to be improved by "smart" motorways. I think we will see a rush for autonomous electric vehicles on health and safety grounds - no matter what the cost of throwing away all of the current technology overnight - and the youngsters will love it until they start to understand what they may have lost. |
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I am of an age that might think 10 years would do quite nicely, thank you. If I can still hear a DFV at full chat by then I will consider myself blessed
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Maybe Goodwood are thinking post-Brexit few will bother with Spa as maybe too much aggro? (carnets etc)
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I think it’s the 500 cars for Goodwood next year . If the races do clash then that will be a problem for me .
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I've added it to the calendar. As to Spa, if it loses the "Superstars" it may be even more fun.
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Maybe Spa 6hr could come the week before Goodwood ... which could make it the week after Zandvoort ... would make a nice double-header! And we might get weather like this year again!
I'm working on the assumption that the EU will find someway of letting us in, so that we can spend our money with them.... |
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ELMS calendar just announced has Spa on 21-22 Sep so Six Hours either goes a week earlier or will clash with Revival.
I assumed the overlap in competitors was quite large, but seems I was wrong. |
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I've been informed the proper Spa 6hrs is final weekend of September.
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