Turkish GP Attendance?

[wedge]

The packed grandstands looked comparable to the Moto GP race. Would be a shame if we lost Silverstone.....

[markabilly]

you mean like the USA lost Indy??

The answer is simple..said it many threads ago>

Sell it to Bernie and they he will ascertain that for the good of the sport, no matter how bad the track, attendance or anything else might totally suck at the track...there will be a GP race at Silverstone

Otherwise you english boys are staring down at a very deep hole in the wall , calendar or whatever.....
Born in the USA......

[SteveA]

Sponsors are more interested in millions of TV viewers, than a few hundred thousand at the track.

[BeansBeansBeans]

The packed grandstands looked comparable to the Moto GP race. Would be a shame if we lost Silverstone.....

What's your point? Silverstone was sold out this year.

[ChrisS]

I think he is being sarcastic because the grandstands were not packed neither in F1 nor MotoGP at Turkey in fact they were mostly empty

yet Bernie keeps the track and threatens to drop Silverstone that was sold out

[Sleeper]

Ticket prices got a massive hike this year in Turky, which kept many people away.

[ShiftingGears]

Bernie doesn't care about what the general fan thinks, he just wants the money to keep coming in. And Bernie gets what he wants...

It'd be a shame to lose the British Grand Prix but I wish Silverstone would remove the Abbey Chicane and make Club corner a sweeping right hander like it used to be. It'd make Silverstone just a little more unique.

[markabilly]

Must I repeat my prior post to remind you of the ultimate truth?
As in Turkey don't own Turkey??
Here it is again:


Turkey is good to go for 15 years, its past sin of not paying the remainder of a fine of 2.5 million, and it is "lousy deal" but Bernie says "we need to be there, just like China"....but of course, seems bernie owns the circuit, so it must be for the good of the sport--all thos brits need to do is sell Siverstone to bernie and the yankess sell Indy to Bernie as well.........

meanwhile a new song for you US GP fans to sing along

"bye buy american pie, took my races to turkey and now the US is dry......and soon soon, it will be over for Silverstone too...." :confused:


Bernie's own words:
"F1 needs to be in this part of the world. Actually our contract here for F1 is one of the worst that we have and my board of directors have often wondered why we did this deal." [well, now they should know]

"But it is like going to China, everyone thought I was stark raving mad to take F1 to China but we needed to be there and that is also the case for Turkey."


http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,189...077876,00.html (http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3441_2077876,00.html)

and Bernie decided it was not in the best interests of the sport to be fining himself ...oops I mean the organizers of the event... :rolleyes:

http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,189...027015,00.html (http://www.planet-f1.com/story/0,18954,3441_2027015,00.html)


so for all those happy folks in da untied kingdom and the us of a, happy days!!