Valencia looking to sell the rights to it's GP

F1 today. You can't even give it away.

 

Good. Valencia regularly produces one of the most boring races of the season.

 

+1 Valencia is a snooze-fest. It's hardly surprising that they aren't making any money out of the uninspiring weekends they've put on.

Circuit de Catalunya (Circuit de Barcelona) is such a better track and the changeable conditions (i.e. wind) make it quite entertaining watching the cars trying to get a good, stable set-up that will cope with that. Why can't the Spanish GP go back there?

All the best,
Andrew.

 

Wasn't it in Valencia where Kobayashi embarrassed Alonso in front of his home fans? It was awesome.

 

Yeap, but nothing to feel embarrassed about. Koby was on fresh rubber, IIRC

 

Actually mate, the Spanish GP is held at Barca. The Euro GP, however, is held at Valencia.

 

D'oh... I'm really not on the ball today at all.

All the best,
Andrew.

 

No prob mate.

 

Here's what I don't understand...

Did Valencia really think they were going to turn a profit? How can anyone think they are going to turn a profit?

I agree with Bernie on this. They were dumb enough to spend bajillions making the track and there were reams of data to show these races don't work, unless you use Bernie-Math that shows the economic impact of billions makes any price for the race a mere pittance.

They have nobody to blame but themselves. Let them burn (or pay).

 

not only that, but they have a perfectly good track just up the road...why have they gone through all the trouble to make another temporary track? surely not with the idea to be the spanish monaco?

 

Agree with you and SRTMike

I've been to this race and it was horrible for the spectators and you couldn't tell there was a GP in town. The city didn't give a damn.

No tear here if it goes away

 

enuff said then ..bin it.

 

Wonder if anyone in Austin is paying attention...

A picture that speaks a thousand words... (An Austin-GP lawyer at a hearing)
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Not quite the same situation:

Austin is building a track dedicated to motorsports year round. Valencia's city GP is the only event they run on that "track".

Also as I said the city never really fully embraced the GP and made it a tourist attraction. In fact the whole city is only slowly awakening to modern tourism: They were just another Spanish City until they got the Admirals' Cup. That brought some tourism plus the yachters and they built the new harbor (where the GP is held). When you go there you see that the city is just starting to build up infrastructure like modern tramways, a gigantic soccer stadium, new congress areas and a new zoo. They still have a small airport and all flights connect via Madrid.

So to put a F1 GP into that town is a bit like putting it into Watkins Glen. Today. Which would make no sense at all.

I dont know much about Austin, but knowing that anything is bigger in Texas, I'm sure it has the infrastructure and city size to cope with the event.

It still is probably a loosing proposition financially, but Bernie won't live forever.

 

damn, no more random chics in bikinis standing in the roof top spa, which the tv camera man slowly pans past every so often.