See you at Donington GP in 2010?

Posted by: Tony Lockhart on 04 July 2008

So, at last, the British Grand Prix fans are going to have a decent circuit to watch F1 at.

Silverstone? Ha ha ha! You just didn't listen to the complaints made by fans. I never could see how they expected fans to pay just to look at the back of advertising hoardings around what looked like the run-down bit of a trading estate in Burnley.

Here's to the future!
Tony
Posted on: 09 July 2008 by scottyhammer
How does she manage to drive in those shoes ? not that im that bothered.....wonder if she needs a co-driver !
Posted on: 11 July 2008 by count.d
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Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
One thing that nobody hasn't mentioned yet is the track surface at Donington. The flights overhead leave the track with a certain slipperiness. Worse in the rain!

Not that a little rain got in the way of the 1993 European GP, when I was lucky enough to see Senna go from 6th to 1st on the first lap. The only driver to get his discs glowing down the Craner Curves too!

Tony


You've got a good memory Tony! I still remember the sight of Senna's discs glowing as he went down the curves. Wonderful.

The circuit is slippy from the overhead flight path, but it makes it interesting and it is the same for all of the drivers!

The Craner Curves are terrifying and a lot steeper than they appear from a spectator point of view. The weight transfer from left to right as you enter the final left curve is .... well terrifying. One was always supposed to be flat out along those curves, but I could never manage it. I loved racing on that circuit.

One thing to be said for the BP being there, it's in central England for everyone.