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mrfill

December 20, 2012 6:14 PM

MOTOGP » British MotoGP makes top ten UK attendance list


@andrew I think the problem with motoGP and F1 in the US is the American parochial approach to team sports. They have their 'football', baseball and basketball - none of which appear much outside the US. Their support and representation in world team sports e.g. football, F1, motoGP is very poor. In motor sports they have NASCAR and AMA which appear to have huge support but which rarely stage any events outside the US, making them almost invisible to the rest of the planet. The American people have chosen to reject F1 and motoGP to a great extent and have what they perceive as perfectly good alternatives. They may be right, they may be wrong but its their decision. Europe, Asia and Australia take a different view and love the international competition.

mrfill

December 20, 2012 11:04 AM

MOTOGP » Penalty Points among latest MotoGP rule changes


I'm a bit confused about this 'random allocation' of moto3 engines. There's more than one engine supplier in moto3 so are the engines being distributed 'randomly'? If so, a team might get a Honda engine in one race and a KTM for the next? That would be quite a challenge for the engineers and riders! Or is this about moto2, where it would make absolute sense (although I thought the engines were randomly allocated already).

mrfill

December 19, 2012 5:22 PM

F1 » Thailand set for 2015 F1 debut


"An F1 race builds support. 14 years after Sepang debuted we had two Malaysian F1 teams. 7 years after China debuted, we have the first Chinese F1 driver. " Well, Sepang first featured in 1999 and 14 years later makes...2013 Oops Malaysian manufacturer Proton owns Lotus Cars but that has no connection with ownership of Lotus F1. They merely sponsor. Caterham are Malaysian owned. So that would be just the 1 Malaysian team (no Malaysian drivers though). Oops And I'm afraid we don't have a Chinese driver in F1. One did make a couple of appearances in FP1 for a team that does not now exist.. No other Chinese driver has ever appeared in F1, despite not being short handed as a country.

mrfill

December 19, 2012 12:04 PM

F1 » Razia caught out by Marussia move


@shaken That 'supposedly poor country' of Brazil is 7th in the world in terms of GDP and that puts it above poorer countries such as the UK, France, Italy, South Korea, Australia and Saudi Arabia. (IMF figures). The 'world recession' is also a bit of a misnomer as places such as SE Asia and China are certainly not in recession. It is only really the US and Europe that is struggling with recession after the western banking fiasco. There are still a huge number of very wealthy people in virtually all countries who could fund teams/drivers if they wanted. Problem is, most are so greedy they would prefer to buy their children ludicrously lavish houses rather than support the sport that made then a fortune.

mrfill

December 11, 2012 10:58 PM

F1 » McLaren 'won’t dwell on Hamilton departure'


I will leave tomcol, richard, taipan and bob to answer your accusation against them but the records still show only 1 WDC in 5 years which, in the 'best car' is very poor. It also demonstrates that Vettel must be vastly superior to win three times in an inferior car. Anyway, none of the other drivers were in a McLaren for all the 5 years so its very unfair to compare.


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