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28 Jul 2006, 03:00 (Ref:1666384)
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Ron Walker confirms AustGP *is* 1st round and Mar18
On local melbourne radio, Ron Walker has announced that Bernie has agreed that the F1 season next year will begin at Melbourne on March18. Despite clashing with the World Swimming Championships, only the Diving apparently will be affected and talks under way to change thier dates.
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28 Jul 2006, 03:09 (Ref:1666386)
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here is the local rags take on it:
http://www.theage.com.au/news/sport/...816356021.html please excuse the self congratulations from the tourism minister quoted.... |
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28 Jul 2006, 07:26 (Ref:1666444)
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That means 2 week later start for longer season-does not compute..
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28 Jul 2006, 07:54 (Ref:1666458)
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Who cares... Melbourne's opening the season again!! Yay!!!
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30 Jul 2006, 11:28 (Ref:1667738)
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Yep, great news. Bahrain was just weird imo.
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30 Jul 2006, 11:36 (Ref:1667744)
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Aus at the front, Spa in the middle and Suzuka at the end is the natural order of F1 and the universe.
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30 Jul 2006, 16:48 (Ref:1667986)
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It's only been the 'natural order' for 9 years out of 57. I see what you mean though, it's not really a surprise that Melbourne starts the season again, it was always expected that the sswitch was a circumstantial one-off.
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31 Jul 2006, 09:59 (Ref:1668684)
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Island Magic
Terrific....Advance Australia Fair
 Does anyone know if Island Magic will immediately precede the GP?? 
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31 Jul 2006, 10:10 (Ref:1668698)
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should be a good year to go, looks like half the crowd won't be there.. no V8SUPERCARs
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1 Aug 2006, 02:29 (Ref:1669557)
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numbers will be waaaay down...
link here This has to be one of the dumbest things i've heard in ages... V8 supercars going to channel 7 was a daft move in the first place, but now, saying the clash between the swimming championships (probably on channel 9?) and a round the following week in perth means a bit of a disaster for the gp. Numbers will be way down, thats for sure, especially in the lead up days, where usually the v8s pull in at least a bit of a crowd... Would love it if they could replace the v8 slot with a gp2 round though, we dont get to see or hear anything of that series down here, and so only hear the hype on hamilton, carrol, premat (and rosberg previously) etc on forums like this. Cant see it happening... so, if the v8s dont race, then they will have to fill it with what? historic monaros? kingswoods? commodore cup? an albert park triathlon? |
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1 Aug 2006, 03:43 (Ref:1669567)
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I think the crowd numbers are more likely to be effected by the world swimming championship than the V8s.
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1 Aug 2006, 05:19 (Ref:1669587)
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There is still the possibility of the Developement series running (despite the Ch10/Ch7 crossover, they just won't get shown on TV...)
But, a draw card is needed, something big, something new- DTM! (the other production car racing series using V8's) 
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I actually thought the Bahrain opener was very good...
Mar 18 too late for opener, surely it'll be at the beginning of the month?? |
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1 Aug 2006, 09:13 (Ref:1669714)
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1 Aug 2006, 09:58 (Ref:1669748)
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They'll probably end up hyping the Porsche races more.
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1 Aug 2006, 10:39 (Ref:1669789)
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Someone on the Aus forum mentioned organisers were looking at importing GP2
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