F1 » Donington reclaims F1 as British GP moves

Perhaps Bernie Ecclestone might have used some of his loose change to help Silverstone upgrade rather than expect British taxpayers to impoverish themselves further?

Too right George2.

Quote: "All of that will undoubtedly be needed to bring the circuit's facilities up to F1 standard, with the Leicestershire venue currently lagging a long way behind Silverstone in that regard. The track itself will also require lengthening."

Sadly, this will mean all the character will be lost. "Lengthening" undoubtedly with a prissy chicane or two and/or a bunch of other low or mdeium speed turns. Another classic track lost to "progress" as seen in Bernie's mind. It wasn't enough to ruin the layouts of Silverstone, Spa, Imola, Monza, Hockenheim, .......

all i can say is i hope that the f1 fans love to queue up for hours and also love the smell of horrid portal loos that are overflowing and also have the fun of queuing up for that too.
went to moto gp 2 weeks ago i have seen better facillities at a car boot sale
then to finish the day off a queue for hours to get out.
glad to see we keep f1 here but not sure you fans will be when u get to go there.

Much better circuit than Silverstone, glad to see that there will be a big improvement to the facilities, but I'm a bit nervous about the 'track lengthening'. Hope they just tack a bit on to the Melbourne Loop and leave the core of the track unchanged. Other obvious one I can see is an inwards loop near the Old Hairpin.

steve, they will upgrade it all to prevent any of this happening to the f1 fans

Oh deep deep joy!
The end result of this is that one of if not the best Motorcycle circuits in the UK gets mutilated
Just to fulfil the poisoned dwarfs personal vendetta against Silverstone / BRDC

More F+++1+g madness from the world of F1. Bernie should be heading for his Altzheimers test and Max the Perv's words are a disgrace. Donnogton Logistics is a nightmare, 3 hours added to normal Donnington journey when I visited the recent GP.
I guess Bernie could fund a new Motorway branch directly in to the circuit!

But who is the £100 million mystery donor funding Donnington Improvements, what's the odd's on the mystery person being closely related to Bernnie

Home page of the Donington Park website has the headline

F1... The British Grand Prix is coming to Donington park.

The car pictured..... an A1GP car

F1 is definately in safe hands

Isn't it alot narrower than modern GP tracks, same with Brands Hatch? I can't see that much overtaking going on down craner curves.

I dread to think what 'Upgrades' F1 has planned for Donington, Dr Chicane AKA Herman Tilke will take one look at the craner curves and start shoving hairpins in left right and centre