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 13/06/2008, 19:23
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sonne
Joined on 11/06/2008
Surrey
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 f1steveuk wrote: | You're going to have to explain that one! Because I don't live 16 inches from there back door I can't know them? I really don't understand your inference. 99.999 % of the people complaining about the proposal haven't even read ALL of the information on the proposal, let alone spoken to those actually involved, and are more than happy to prefer assumption to knowledge, but if you don't know what your talking about, it's better to shut up....................
I will just throw this into the mix. What a lot of the carping Brits don't know is that they "assume" David and Sandra are just sitting in retirement spending their money on a new toy. What they don't KNOW is that they run a company, in France, that employs French people and it is the money from this they are trying to put back into the French system, still, best not to look further than the end of our own gardens or worse still noses..................
And if the circuit was to be near me, I wouldn't have a problem, much the same as I don't about the airfield near me, that I knew was there BEFORE I moved here.
What p#**+s me off is when someone actually tries to put something back, and help the community they have moved into, we whinge, yet I know of one town where the Brit's whinged until they were allowed a cricket field, and now wont let the French play on it. Yes I am a petrolhead, I like my cars, my motorbikes etc etc, and I understand that there are those that dont feel the same, what I will not do is try and inflict MY interests on to others. What the Brooker-Careys ARE doing, is working with the local community, to ensure the proposal includes education, employment and allowing for other interests (horses, bird watching, fishing etc etc) to be developed.
As you don't know me, or my background, or anything about me I'd rather you kept to the subject, and research you comments rather than spouting!
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Good lad!!
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15/06/2008, 13:59
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f1steveuk
 
Joined on 29/03/2007
Belves, Dordogne and Sussex
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Lad!!?? Thanks, made my day!!!
Bob, microlights going over today! is there some sort of "rally" for them? I caught my eye, solid fuselage, canard config' (I'd like to say it looked like a Lotus, but I think only two were ever built).
"Some scoundrel has taken the cork for my lunch"
W.C Fields
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15/06/2008, 15:02
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Bob T
Joined on 05/10/2006
Dordogne
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Not me today Steve, but I did drop into Belves for a coffee yesterday. I was in my flexwing and had a red fixed wing microlight with me. I left Belves at around 14:00, heading north.
Bob T 24
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16/06/2008, 10:44
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f1steveuk
Joined on 29/03/2007
Belves, Dordogne and Sussex
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I counted about 16 yestarday morning (what's the collective, squadron, fleet, armada?) led by the very stylish canard, fixed undercarriage job, although it was an assumption on my part they had either landed or taken off from Belves, as 15 minutes later every harley in France went past as well (I suppose they're V twins, but!..............), all that, and Le Mans too!!
"Some scoundrel has taken the cork for my lunch"
W.C Fields
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16/06/2008, 18:54
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f1steveuk
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Donnington, that would be paying crowds gone to see a race then? Not a few people who may have seen a car demonstrated at a museum.....................![Wink [;-)]](/cs/images/emotions/wink.gif)
"Some scoundrel has taken the cork for my lunch"
W.C Fields
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16/06/2008, 18:59
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Dick Smith
Joined on 23/08/2004
Surrey and Manche (Pays Mortainais)
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I don't remember villages on the way to Donington, but I haven't been for a while. The worst I have experienced (apart from Silverstone in the bad old days) was Rockingham, the first big meeting (the CART race). A nightmare - hours to get in and many more hours to get out, traffic queues through residential areas, which is unforgiveable. And the race, though very interesting, was a shambles.
Regards
Dick Smith
Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
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16/06/2008, 20:00
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sweet 17
Joined on 05/08/2006
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And there was I, in my protected childhood and dotage, thinking Rockingham is the tune of a hymn!
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16/06/2008, 20:24
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Hoddy
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I live near to the Donington racetrack and I can only repeat what I've said before, the noise from the track and the traffic for it are not a real problem. Castle Donington itself and two other little villages lie between the racetrack and the M1. The police route the traffic carefully to avoid all the residential areas with small roads. Now when they used to have the Monsters of Rock concerts up there - that was intrusive and late at night.
Hoddy
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