...then there was the poor-selling Audi A1; such a cynically tarted-up & overpriced fabia, all the Audi buyers noticed & stayed away in droves?

The Euro-project, where Germmany's economy has to single-handedly bail-out all the basket cases because the latter cannot devalue...

...I could go on.

They did invent the term Schadenfreude though. Which is a woody word.

 

So in a straight line then?

It's about 280 miles from Calais, which if you live in the South East makes it closer than Angelsey, Croft, and probably Oulton Park.

 

It's closer to me than going to see my parents.

Dundee, Rochester, Ring.

My father-in-law went last year in the XKR with a few mates, this year he is going again with another XKR, an M6 and a few other cars, he has invited me along but I'm not sure.

Not when Brands is a half hour away.

 

Will this result in constipation

 

tend to agree with this, I did my 3rd trip there last year and love the place but don't drive it fully committed after all Tourist days are not trackdays I tend to drive it more like a fast A road.

I'd hate to see the nurburgring go but even if it did go in to administration I could see the Nordschleife re-opening fairly quickly as it must make good money it was just all the OTT stuff around the GP circuit which has caused the problems.

On the plus side anyone taking over could hopefully ditch the stupid policy of needing to pay for everything on a ring card.

 

I love forums and the fact that so much mis-communication and aggro can take place amongst people who supposedly have similar interests, even if they no longer own the object of the forum's existence and hang around like a bad smell.

I love tangents that spawn even more mis-communicaton and aggro.

I love the 'everyone is entitles to their own opinion as long as it is the same as mine' attitude that always pops up on forums.

I love the flaming that I know I am going to get for posting this.

It reinforces my faith in mankind's ability to totaly muff up anything that it gets involved in.



Regardless of your opinion of the Ring, the people who go there and enjoy the experience, the benefits of a local British track over one of them there foreign ones, or whatever, the fact remains that it is a historically important site that should be preserved and protected with as much zeal as a Guild Hall, Church, Castle, Forest, or whatever.

 

Sound Info

Seems this guy has biker friends with similar experiences to mine

I'm not saying don't go just be aware of the perils which I am and why I will never go.

Like riding the TT to me. Some will and some won't cos its a crazy place.

 

That's all about bikes. The bikers are somewhat crazy to go to there, if for no other reason than the proximity of cars. They're 1000 times more vulnerable, and 1000 times more likely to get injured, obviously.

Cars: not the same as bikes.

 

I agree with all of that, but not with this:

If you ramp up the price, that will not stop the pr1cks.

Ramping up the price would certainly stop me going because i'd see it as a colossal waste of money.

As others have said, there are plenty of tracks around here, and plenty of other tracks in Europe (Spa is a track I am desperate to visit).

Yes, the ring closing would be a shame, but, imho, the image it currently holds of being somesort of King phallic comparison of the motoring world is massively detracting from the enjoyment it should offer to a driving enthusiast.

The irony is that it is these 'wealthy' people who take control of something they don't understand, but think they do because they have money and wealth=knowledge obviously

 

I assume you also haven't been?