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21/06/2008, 21:14 Gluestick Joined on 22/03/2006 UK and Nord Pas de Calais Posts 2,343 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France...  f1steveuk wrote: Racing should improve the breed, but F1 technolgy rarely filters down these days! We've discussed many of these aspects privately before, Steve and we have agreed that the current iteration of F1 is only about making the midget horror and his cabal even more billions............... As you know, I am less than interested these days in any concern about computerised Go Kart drivers! However whomsoever we attribute modern monocoques and unitary construction to, the fact does remain that gradually deformable structures save human injury. I was again, recently, scanning my copy of Barré Lyndon's seminal work, "Grand Prix", published originally in 1935, which follows the whole (1935) season and recounts the awful fatal accident which befell the hugely talented driver, Guy Moll at Pescara. His heavy GP car went on and on for a considerable time before it came to rest.   "Yes, but that apart, Mrs Lincoln, did you enjoy the play?" Gluestick    Report

21/06/2008, 21:25 f1steveuk Joined on 29/03/2007 Belves, Dordogne and Sussex Posts 298 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France... you can sum it up in one word, money (oe Ecclestone!) Without doubt, more survive now, than would have, but it would be nice for some more benefits to appear on road cars. Still your right, I prefer the historic F1s to anything post 1985. "Some scoundrel has taken the cork for my lunch" W.C Fields    Report

08/07/2008, 14:20 Uffcat Joined on 02/01/2008 Posts 27 Re: Racetrack plan shatters quiet life in France... As someone living not more than a stone's throw from the proposed car track, can anyone tell me what is happening there?  I seem to glean that the proposals may have been turned down?    Report

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