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| An American LeMans Seris Round each year |
   
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16 | 25.40% |
| The British F1 GP |
  
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11 | 17.46% |
| A round of the DTM each year |
  
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2 | 3.17% |
| F3/GT |
  
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5 | 7.94% |
| BTCC |
  
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6 | 9.52% |
| British Hillclimb Champs |
  
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6 | 9.52% |
| A round of Champ Cars each year |
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2 | 3.17% |
| Goodwood Festival |
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9 | 14.29% |
| Regular Euro BOSS rounds in the UK |
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4 | 6.35% |
| WRC Rally GB |
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2 | 3.17% |
| Voters: 63. You may not vote on this poll | |||
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8 Aug 2003, 00:27 (Ref:682451)
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Which would you save
Ok, quite simeple.
By freak of circumstance you are given a chance to permanently save the future of one of the above events... Vote for one of the above. And give us an idea why below. Might be a chance for the gods to see what we like and why..... |
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8 Aug 2003, 00:37 (Ref:682455)
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I think the UK has some of the worlds best sportscar venues, has some of the best teams and manufacturers. We deserve top level sportscar racing. ALMS please. I found that tough though.
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8 Aug 2003, 08:04 (Ref:682593)
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Festival - haven't been yet!
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8 Aug 2003, 09:06 (Ref:682633)
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Wanted to save the Festival and Hillclimb Champs.........
Went for the Hillclimb as the Festival is only once a year and I would be bored s******s for the rest of the year.... Hahahahaha |
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8 Aug 2003, 10:59 (Ref:682703)
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None of the above. World Kart Championship
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8 Aug 2003, 11:03 (Ref:682709)
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Seeing that 2CV racing wasn't on there, I opted for ALMS!
Only did it once at Silverstone - an evening race - and it was superb! It put the following days FIA GT's to shame! |
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8 Aug 2003, 11:18 (Ref:682730)
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The irony of voting for the Festival (which I have done) is:
It is not really a competitive motorsport event. It does not need saving as it is efficiently and well run as the most superb motorsport-related fun event I have ever seen. The hint of competition in the background adds just the right spice. Actually the event I would have voted for is not there: "Club level motor racing". Add "Club (up to National championship) forest stage rallying" as a second choice. Now how about a poll (multiple items to be voted for) for those events you would kill off?  Regards Jim |
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8 Aug 2003, 11:45 (Ref:682762)
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Not really what I want to 'save' but what I want to 'see' - and there are several... But being allowed to vote for one only I have gone for the ALMS .. never will I forget the evening race at Silverstone ... one of my all time greats.
Events to kill - the F1 circus, BTCC (or whatever they call themselves nowadays) and 2 hour Radical races!! |
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8 Aug 2003, 11:54 (Ref:682776)
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I am of the same train of thought as blackx... And voted accordingly.. Funny tho I hadn't seen his reason for voting that way before I placed mine....
Seriously, I think that the rest of the choices are far more likely to survive without any intervention from the little people but hillclimbing needs more in the way of publicity as it is not that well known. In my humble opinion hillclimbing has more excitement than F1 or many other types of motor racing!!!.... But then what would I know, I am only a marshal's widow!!! 
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8 Aug 2003, 12:00 (Ref:682781)
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F3, only 'cos Ford and Renault might be on the undercard hopefully.
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8 Aug 2003, 12:43 (Ref:682834)
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Euroboss of course - it's somewhere for all the F1 cars to play when the F1 circus series eventually disappears up it's own bottom.
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8 Aug 2003, 13:16 (Ref:682862)
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I might be sad but if all the above where to go and leave meetings like 750, MGCC & JCC that would be fine by me. But the one meeting a year I must do is the 12 Lawn Mower Race.
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8 Aug 2003, 14:08 (Ref:682904)
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I still think the Goodwood Revival, though not quite a competitive event, is the best advert for good, clean, sporting driving that we probably have in the UK. Its worldwide impact on motorsport cannot be underestimated and the access the public have to the cars, teams and drivers is unparallelled at any other event of this size. A bonus is that marshals get treated well at the event, (though we have missed our commerorative medals for the last two years...) and the long hours are rewarded by the sight and sounds of some mouthwatering machinery driven by some of the greatest drivers in the world.
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8 Aug 2003, 15:41 (Ref:682980)
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MRO national series.
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8 Aug 2003, 16:00 (Ref:682995)
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ALMS gets the vote for me - definitely one of the best things I've seen on a racetrack.
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8 Aug 2003, 16:46 (Ref:683026)
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With the Bentley win fresh in people's minds, I think the sportscar fraternity should have a good think again about coming back here again. Surprised DTM isn't doing better..... |
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8 Aug 2003, 16:51 (Ref:683038)
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Yes I`m biased but it`s got to be hillclimb champs. I agree with Mrs Black X, there is more excitement than F1, more contact with all the combatants and it truly does represent grassroots motorsport....although the lawnmower folks might disagree !!!
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8 Aug 2003, 20:15 (Ref:683240)
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Wheres Combe? Oh well have to make do with ALMS
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8 Aug 2003, 21:02 (Ref:683275)
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This is crazy, there is no way I will vote for just one of these.
I will fight tooth and nail for all of these events, and more! Long live British motorsport. |
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8 Aug 2003, 21:39 (Ref:683303)
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Difficult choice. I was tempted to go for the ALMS. That Silverstone race was the best ever. The quality is variable, though. I'd go for the Champ Cars ir they were on the Oval, and the oval were changed so they could actually race instead of follow. So in the end I went for the Hillclimbs, because I really couldn't manage without a couple of visits a year. Club meeting at it's most friendly, coupled with awesome cars and vitually every driver fully on it the whole time.
What I'd really like to save is old-fashioned club racing, probably by amalgamating the whole lot into about 10 series of wildly oversubscribed grids. Let's face it, most of the categories are very similar to each other. Except the Radicals. |
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9 Aug 2003, 17:07 (Ref:683764)
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It's just dawned on me......
Unwittingly I've momentarily put us in the position of the people who make the decisions the we often object to and dislike. IE cancelling events we like and running many various formulae. At the time of this posting, the 43 of us who have voted have only agreed to ditch one event on the calendar (I've taken the nil vote for Champ Cars as a thumbs down). All in all this doesn't really prove much, but I've found it an eye opener. Wouldn't it be good if Don Panoz saw it
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9 Aug 2003, 21:49 (Ref:683887)
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I would save the Grand Prix it being the oldest continualy run race on the calander. How many are left that started that first seson 53 years ago? (Thats the origanal ones)
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10 Aug 2003, 18:49 (Ref:684400)
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Shelsley Walsh????????? I take it you are an F1 fan!!!!! |
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10 Aug 2003, 19:43 (Ref:684438)
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Goodwood Festival, pure nostalgia, pure magic and reassuringly expensive.
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10 Aug 2003, 21:21 (Ref:684524)
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i voted for alms i did not see them at silverstone but i saw them at donington and they where great .i would also like to put in a vote for hillclimbs .this weekends meeting at loton was really competative also euroboss as old fi cars are so much better than the new ones
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