Lord R,

Please allow me to ppint out a few points your staff may have overlooked when you asked them to look into buying Silverstone.

The current owners, those spiffing chaps at the BRDC would be only too willing to lease you the track as they would be only too happy to allow you to impose the sort of dress code they admire. DJs, for the car drivers and waxed cotton for the riders.


Silverstone has the capability to run two circuits at once hence you staff could be warming up one machine for you on one circuit while you use the other, hence there would be no chance of a minor inconvenience should they stray into your path while on a "hot" lap!!

It is possible to land fixed wing aircraft at silverstone, yes yes I know you can do that next door at Donnington but then you have to use the same roads as the general public to get into the circuit??!!

Having said all of that why buy a tattly secondhand circuit I'm sure a nice new one would look a lot better in the garden.

PS A warning to any new owner at Silverstone, Bernie would have your address and sooner or later you know that will cost you some money!!

Ray

[Edited on 5-10-2004 by Ray]

Listened to radio this morning and government chappie was saying "Nooo, all we want to do is get the two parties round the table to discuss the matter", in other words (as quite rightly pointed out by the interviewer) it is highly likely that the british taxpayer will be footing a part of the gross obscene cost of supporting the event.
Rant.

Talking of buying race tracks does anyone remember that place for sale in the South of France about 2 years ago,

Big house, swimming pool, gatekeepers lodge, 2.5 km race track, about 25 kms of enduro tracks, and quite of few hectares of land to complete the country estate, all for a million quid.

Why didn't you buy that one Tim?

I was almost tempted to rob a bank myself:D

Is anybody really surprised, when they wouldn't sell him the circuit Bernie first moved the Silverstone GP date to coincide with the height of the UK monsoon season then bitched at all the mud.

Silverstone spent a fortune on new carparks and the road access has been vastly improved but who really expected the all powerful Bernie to let them carry on having told him where to get off.

God help us if the poisonous little worm ever gets his dirty little mitts on bike racing (as has been rumoured)

did anyone see the story in todays paper about donington holding the giant go karts, apparently nigel mansells consrotium are trying to take the lease over

but hows donington going to cope with f1, the facilities are no where near as good as silverstone in my opinion

I read in our local rag that Mansells mob might be helping somehow with funding of the Silverstone car GP. No way they could get Donny up to scratch for a car GP with all the problems they have access and parking wise.