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I have a permanently and often painfully stretched tendon in my right thumb courtesy of flagging at Donington on a wet day.
My moans: 1) Over-ambitious, over-long programmes with poor breaks. 2) Series for self-interest groups, money making promotors instead of for the good of the sport. Usually involving too few cars and three times as much track time as justified. 3) Days which manage to combine both of the above. 4) Actually, I'm not going in to details about that one... |
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The astroturf at Silverstone. Why is it there? What is it supposed to do?
At the weekend, a lot of it was ripped up by the car and dragged across the track. This became an embarrassment and could have been dangerous. It might be pretty, but it's not clever. Get rid of it. |
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My moan: Why is it that the Moaning Thread seems to always last longer than the Happy Thread? Ah, yes... 'cos its the internet, and bad news is always more interesting.
As for the astroturf, isn't it there to prevent drivers going to far outside the confines of the circuit? In the "good 'ol days", there would have been gravel there, but with these tarmac run-offs, they need something to deter running wide. |
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Maybe because it feels different under the wheels, so they know they're going offline?
Also on Mark and Anita's points. I understand both of these as the last thing you want to do is ruin someone's session unnecessarily, but why ask someone on a straight to look at it? Liquids escaping and doors opening etc often happen on corners, how can someone on a straight determine if it is safe or not??? |
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fix it down with those strips of spikes used for carpets at home
how about replacing it with gloss paint? bottom line is that the "4 wheels off" surface is still too attractive as an alternative to staying on the black stuff. |
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2CV on the old Anglesey circuit; every time it went round a bend one of the front wheels was tilting one way or the other, depending on the direction of the bend. Several posts reported it, so a scrute was summoned to the pit wall to give his opinion. "I can see nothing wrong with that car" was his pronouncement. A couple of laps later: "Control, Post 4: you may be interested to know that the wheel's just fallen off that car".
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Having to find a 'man' because the circuit in their wisdom have put the Safety Car boards in a cupboard in the gents toilet.
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Earlier this year at a meeting at Donington on the Loop, I (eventually) realised that the Gents was unlocked, even though the Ladies wasn't. So at the end of one session I invaded the Gents (it was empty when I went in). Embarrassingly, it was rather full when I left so I just put my head down and strode out. Come to think of it, that probably constitutes a "moan" as well. PJ |
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Can I moan that the moaning thread is indeed appearing to be permanent, but the happy thread seems to have vanished?
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At a Grand Prix many, many years ago the queue for the Ladies was huge before the start of the race when I wanted to "prepare" for 1.5 hours on the bank. In previous years the ladies had been happy for this vision in orange to jump the queue - but not this time. So I just went into next door, announced my intention, did the business and vacated. Sometimes a girl just has to have no shame!
Also at Silverstone, being told I couldn't use the racing school loos (you might upset the punters) was a bit odd. Never mind, the mechanics let me use theirs - so long as I whistled! (Sorry - latter moan has turned into good. Must be the people involved.) |
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sorry greem, ive suddenly made your decent thread turn into a toilets discussion...
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Aren't the facilities (or lack of) one of the main gripes at any circuit? I'd say this thread has reached its natural level.........
Time for someone to drag it up a level or three....... |
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agreed... i love the way donington is in a good way, for what it takes they couldnt really care about the state of some of the knackered buildings and huts, theyd rather let the wtcc and other high prestige crowds see caved in roofs and do nothing about it, the size of the campsite, good in a way, i suppose it gets everyone talking to each other, and unfortunately fighting , the good thing is pretty much all the facilities are there, unlike some bigger outfits...
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There's been a good bit of work in recent months to clear "caved in roofs" and such like. The site was far, far worse a year ago. Unlike some operators the owners don't have a bottomless money pit, so there's a definite priority list. I don't believe toilets or knackered outbuildings feature highly on the good and bad points of an FIA grade 2 license so they've spent the money on re-obtaining that and the corresponding bike certification.
If you really do believe that circuit operators are leaving crap facilities out of malice then write to them. Or, of course, you already spoke to your post chief or chief marshal on the day to raise your concerns, didn't you...? |
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Uninformed / new security peoples at this years Canadian GP. We show up at corner 11, downstream from the hairpin on Friday, all dressed up in our white finery and the closeset security person asks us " are you folks going to be here all day "
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it may not feature high on their list but part B ecc's public reason to cast doubt over the allocation of the british gp featured toilets... a few years ago at silverstone they were s***e improved now, doningtons arent too bad theres plenty of them so if he can complain about something like that, plenty of other promoters can use that against circuits when the contract starts to end... i agreed donington has come a long way, but what im saying im a builder itd take me less than half a day to make each one look decent, temporarily block the door off so they cant see inside, take the whole roof off, put a temporary roof up with the old wood and plenty of big plastic sheeting so its relatively water tight.... dispose of the rest of the wood until they get round to knocking the whole thing down. i dont know why they didnt put a temp roof on either means theyre replacing the roof and the stuff inside is going to need a whole load of tlc, knocking it down or getting rid of the sinks and toilets which i highly doubt. there's only 1 or 2 like that but now its been left like that they may as well leave it for the offseason... except maybe tens of thousands of spectators who may have already seen them. |
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