Future F1 Grands Prix

[cider_and_toast]

India would still be there if it wasn't for the fact they wanted to charge a higher rate of tax on the earnings of each team.

So, the message is, as long as you keep the tax low and the revenue high, you get your race.

Not the sort of image Bernie would want to present to a German court now, surely?

 

[sushifiesta]

It's just skipping a year because it will be moving earlier in the calendar, it's nothing to do with the tax. The organisers just felt they couldn't host two events as close together as late 2013 and early 2014.

 

[Mephistopheles]

But if it's slot is filled in 2014 to give the maximum 20 races and with the Russians coming how will it get back onto the calender?

 

[cider_and_toast]

Ecclestone wanted to move the race earlier in the season but there is an issue with tax. The Indian government want to tax the revenue of teams total earnings while in India and not just on the revenue they earn while in India. I.E. the corporation tax they want to charge is on, for example, the entire wealth of Red Bull Racing for the duration they are working in India.

Ecclestone is not happy about this and while the race is being moved and conveniently skipping a year, there is a grave doubt about whether it's coming back at all.

 

[mjo]

I wouldn't miss it, to be honest.

 

[teabagyokel]

Pie Chart Showing Laps Led at the Indian Grand Prix:

 

[Il_leone]

Good riddance if the circuit goes

 

[Mephistopheles]

Is that some kind of record teabagyokel If so somebody had better tweet Vettel, he loves that kinda stuff.....

 

[KekeTheKing]

I believe only the Chandhok family would miss the Indian GP if it never returned after this year.

 

[teabagyokel]

KekeTheKing - There's one German fella who might wish it was still around...

 

[KekeTheKing]

Well, OK, Seb and the Chandhoks then. Or are you referring to the German refugee selling kebabs underneath the grandstand at Buddh International?

 

[teabagyokel]

He hawks stuff to people at cricket grounds the rest of the year, so he won't have to worry about the expense of buying earplugs any more.

 

[cider_and_toast]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/23491103

Just to back up my earlier post.

 

[Mephistopheles]

The Russian race is in doubt because the RAF did not make the deadline of the 31st July, I know, I know it's an easy thing to to do, after all they have only been planning the race of 50 years.

And,,,, can somebody explain to me what that big loop is supposed to achieve? Made up of turns 2,3,4 and 5

 

[Jen]

It's a KGB knitting pattern Mephistopheles. I think, if one got it right, it would be the heel of a sock.

 

[mjo]

It's meant to run in the Olympic park, so it'll probably be around a stadium or something like that I expect.

 

[Mephistopheles]

Maybe Romain can use it as a short cut so that we can all rant about what a ballsy overtaker he is.....

 

[teabagyokel]

I find it difficult to understand how going round the outside is a short-cut...?

 

[Fenderman]

Maybe the inside has been designed by the FIA to shred Pirelli's which would make the outside a shortcut since there would be fewer pit visits to change boots

 

[RasputinLives]

Maybe Romain can use it as a short cut so that we can all rant about what a ballsy overtaker he is.....

Yawn.