The 'Ring - closure threat
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From: Plymouth
Originally Posted by tailhappy,Jan 1 2011, 06:10 PM
Doesn't surprise me as the place is lethal. Heard some awful stories from folk who have been.
And thousands of miles of driving to get there?
Where are you, Mars?
(No need to answer that)
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I am a bit confused by this news. Although I did know they had plans to build a museum, hotel and roller-coaster 
I can't believe they are in so much financial trouble 
I don't see why Governments should have to bail out under-performing businesses, but I think this track is worth saving.
Even though I've never been I would love too one day, and if I'm honest the language barrier is probably holding me back more than anything else
It's a race track with years of history behind it, and for me that's something worth saving. If it was a country manor house or renaissance painting then there would be no question about saving it. But just because it's "only a race track", made from tarmac and armco doesn't make it any less important as an item of historical note for German.
I can't believe they are in so much financial trouble I don't see why Governments should have to bail out under-performing businesses, but I think this track is worth saving.
Even though I've never been I would love too one day, and if I'm honest the language barrier is probably holding me back more than anything else
It's a race track with years of history behind it, and for me that's something worth saving. If it was a country manor house or renaissance painting then there would be no question about saving it. But just because it's "only a race track", made from tarmac and armco doesn't make it any less important as an item of historical note for German.
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From: Banbury, Oxfordshire
Originally Posted by j8mie,Jan 2 2011, 09:11 AM
I am a bit confused by this news. Although I did know they had plans to build a museum, hotel and roller-coaster I can't believe they are in so much financial trouble
I don't see why Governments should have to bail out under-performing businesses, but I think this track is worth saving.
It's a race track with years of history behind it, and for me that's something worth saving. If it was a country manor house or renaissance painting then there would be no question about saving it. But just because it's "only a race track", made from tarmac and armco doesn't make it any less important as an item of historical note for German.
I can't believe they are in so much financial trouble I don't see why Governments should have to bail out under-performing businesses, but I think this track is worth saving.
It's a race track with years of history behind it, and for me that's something worth saving. If it was a country manor house or renaissance painting then there would be no question about saving it. But just because it's "only a race track", made from tarmac and armco doesn't make it any less important as an item of historical note for German.
It's all the other nonsense that has got them into trouble. I'm sure most fans of the place wouldn't be that bothered if the entire GP circuit and complex was just buldozed, and they left the Nordshleife to get on with it.
[QUOTE]Even though I've never been I would love too one day, and if I'm honest the language barrier is probably holding me back more than anything else
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From: Survivalist enclave
can't see the problem myself
if the whole enterprise goes under it seems almost certain that the track would resurface under different ownership in due course
as for it becoming scum city, I can well believe it if my experience of other major events over the last decade is anything to go by
unless you REALLY ramp up the price and impose VERY strict rules o behaviour, the scum WILL take over and spoil things
never really got the sticker thing but then I don't get t-shirts with messages on them either
all goes under a heading of a bit needy afaiac
if the whole enterprise goes under it seems almost certain that the track would resurface under different ownership in due course
as for it becoming scum city, I can well believe it if my experience of other major events over the last decade is anything to go by
unless you REALLY ramp up the price and impose VERY strict rules o behaviour, the scum WILL take over and spoil things
never really got the sticker thing but then I don't get t-shirts with messages on them either
all goes under a heading of a bit needy afaiac
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From: Hertford
It's just another cliche, I'm afraid. Although b-segment poxboxes with a ring sticker make me rofl.
A bit like everything of interest needing a theme park & bloody great hotel built next to it, which promptly goes tits. Bit like mangement hiring another set of mangement consultants, who tell them to do exactly what the penultimate set of mangement consultants told them to do...does one still case study Enron on an MBA?
Let it go tits. The Vages could afford to buy it every month, with their impressive profits. And buy Alfa four times a year...seriously!
A bit like everything of interest needing a theme park & bloody great hotel built next to it, which promptly goes tits. Bit like mangement hiring another set of mangement consultants, who tell them to do exactly what the penultimate set of mangement consultants told them to do...does one still case study Enron on an MBA?
Let it go tits. The Vages could afford to buy it every month, with their impressive profits. And buy Alfa four times a year...seriously!