Future F1 Grands Prix

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

I have to say I don't. but then again i didn't like the never ending turns 1 and 2 in Shanghai but its sort of grown on me. The layout looks a little dull, but didn't people say that about Melbourne when it was first proposed, that hasn't done too bad.​

 

[Bill Boddy]

Melbourne has the advantage of being the first race of the year. This gives it a lot more uncertainty so there tend to be more surprises, like the Brawn was really fast.

 

[teabagyokel]

And any Button fan will tell you how great Melbourne is...

 

[mjo]

Couple more rumours from this week for races in France and Mexico:
http://www.f1-fansite.com/f1-news/alain-prost-2014-french-f1-grand-prix-is-possible/
http://www.autoweek.com/article/20130224/f1/130229884#ixzz2LtMbXQt9

Of course, nothing is official until it is officially announced.

 

[GermanF1]

“Mexico City is a better place to hold the race than Cancun,” he said. “In more or less any city around the world you could ask people 'where is Mexico City?' and they would say Mexico. If you said to somebody where is Cancun they would say 'I don't know.'”

Only Bernie can come up with that kind of nonsense. Ask people around the world "where is Vatican City?" and they would say Vatican. So what? Not difficult if the name of the country happens to be same name of the city...

 

[teabagyokel]

GermanF1 - This is the man who for 30 years held the San Marino Grand Prix in Imola...

 

[F1Yorkshire]

To be fair though Imola is actually bigger than San Marino.*



*random fact may not be true.

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

I loved Imola... the flat out at Tamburello sweeping down to Tosa with no chicanes of traffic calming devices Imola...

 

[GermanF1]

ZakspeedYakspeed Yes it was really impressive, but too many crashes have happened there (Berger, Piquet and obviously Senna), so it was definetly right to calm it down. Actually this seems to be only one of all those "safety modifications" I approved of.

 

[The Artist.....]

@GermanF1- add patrese in there as well!

Now I thought that the hermanos e Rodriguez circuit in Mexico had a football field built over the peraltada (or something like that)... I'm not sure that any talk of races there is credible!

 

[soccerman17]

Baseball but they have still been racing there, only affects visibility if you try to look across the curve, but not whats in front of you. Champ Car actually ran a race that went through the baseball stadium to bypass the pretty sketch peraltada.

 

[gethinceri]

Champ Car? Well if they've done that then F1's a deffo.

 

[Galahad]

Mexico makes sense from a financial perspective as the article suggests, and if it means we don't get another street race then I'm all for renovating the Hermanos Rodriguez. Unfortunately the best thing about it was the Peraltada and you can be sure that's the one corner that won't return in original form after Tilke the appointed designer has finished.

 

[mjo]

http://www.planetf1.com/driver/3213/8541693/Bernie-eyeing-22-races-and-Cape-Town

 

[mjo]

http://www1.skysports.com/formula-1...-austrian-gp-to-return-to-f1-calendar-in-2014

 

[RasputinLives]

Gonna be a lot of races next year and can't say I'm shocked Red Bull got their home race.

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

A non Tilke track ... a pure horsepower circuit ...

http://www.aerialf1.com/europe/austria/osterreichring/

 

[mjo]

ZakspeedYakspeed Sorry to burst your bubble, but Tilke designed the A1 Ring.

 

[cider_and_toast]

Yep, like all great Tilke designs, take a real track (all be it a bloody dangerous one) remove all the good bits and leave it nice and sterile. Prawn sandwhich in the VIP area anyone ??

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Bull_Ring

 

[ZakspeedYakspeed]

oh the humanity....

I know it is not the Osterreichring ... but at least his hands were tied regarding what he had to work with ... i.e. no mickey mouse chicanery ...