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30 Mar 2011, 09:22 (Ref:2855776)
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 Go Nelson  Bernie, before his time is up, should re-invest some of his billions & get this track re-built... |
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30 Mar 2011, 09:22 (Ref:2855777)
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 ... My time at Hockenheim was a good 10 years later but still in a frame to have witnessed the circuit in full glamour.I seem to a remember a website that was centered on old Hockenheim. Something with rapsody but I either can't find it now or it doesn't exist anymore. It was a beautiful place with lots of memories from the forest straights. Quote:
I always thought that the green and hilly areas are part of the "fascination Nordschleife" for instance and realise now that these two elements fascinate me on a lot more circuits world wide. Bathurst and Brands Hatch, for example. Ok, old Hockenheim wasn't really hilly. I think I once calculated 3.5m height difference towards Ostkurve and the same difference back to finish line from a height profile. Dead flat but also beautiful when you stood somewhere in the woods and bet on the next car passing by, from nothing else than engine sound. |
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30 Mar 2011, 09:23 (Ref:2855778)
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It would be nice wouldn't it?
With a bit of thought it could be restored and purpose built this time, rather than a ridiculously quick track marred with chicanes - at least this way it'd be purpose built with thought out run-offs etc. But will not happen, unfortunately!  Selby |
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30 Mar 2011, 09:31 (Ref:2855784)
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I think I read once that the old forest areas have been put to nature reserve area status so rebuilding the old bits is out of question
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30 Mar 2011, 10:23 (Ref:2855802)
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Absolutely mate. It is a shame.
Why not just put trees over the current Hockenheim?  Funny thing is, if it was just a new track on the calendar, I don't think we'd mind too much. I think it's more a case of it's just been replaced with something that's absolutely nothing like its original character. That's my main gripe - it's not that it's a bad circuit, it's more the fact that it doesn't contain any of the characteristics that the old Hockenheim embodied. Selby |
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30 Mar 2011, 10:26 (Ref:2855805)
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Progress is a one-way street, I'm afraid. You'll never see trees reappearing trackside. Having said that, I watched 'The Killer Years' last night, which made me realise that all these safety measures have been important over the years.
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1 Apr 2011, 19:24 (Ref:2857028)
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