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Imhotep Evil · 09-24-2008, 08:30 AM

It's Ecclestone the one pushing this. Tilke just tries the best with what he's got.
The butchering of Hockenheim shall never be forgotten nor forgiven.

Here's an article as to why there are these types of circuits:

Quote:

F1 : Report - Formula 1 race fees exceed television rights for the first time
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Source/Credit - Formula Money
Monday, 01 September 2008

Formula Money, the industry monitor for Formula One motor racing, today launches its second annual review which reveals the extent of the sport’s drive into new markets.

This year, for the first time ever, race hosting fees bring more money to Formula 1’s commercial rightsholder than TV broadcasting rights. The addition of high paying new races in Singapore and Valencia has driven fees up to $403.5m, over $23m more than the amount brought in by television rights.

This year revenues from all businesses within Formula 1 will reach a record total of US$4.7bn. The biggest component of this is the $1.6bn spent by the team owners, which increased from $1.47bn in 2007 largely due to the arrival of Indian billionaire Vijay Mallya who runs the Force India team.

Team sponsorship increased slightly to $836.9m, despite the Super Aguri team leaving Formula 1 during this year. Ferrari led this increase and became the first team with over $200m in sponsorship in a single year.

Formula Money contains more than 200 tables which uncover every aspect of Formula 1’s finances from a valuation of every current team sponsorship deal to the typical budget for a Grand Prix.

It has expanded to 156 pages, adding sections detailing the finances of Formula 1’s feeder series GP2 and analysing the editorial print media exposure of Formula 1’s team sponsors, the first time this data has ever been produced.

To produce the print media exposure data Formula Money has carried out an extensive analysis of over 14,000 international media outlets for the full calendar year 2007.

Every sponsor’s name was searched in conjunction with two other terms, the name of the team sponsored and Formula 1. This monitored each sponsor’s exposure from its Formula 1 involvement and the search covered all languages.

The results were further broken down in languages key to Formula 1 and were also rated in terms of the sponsors’ estimated spending in order to calculate their return on investment. This new perspective on exposure enables better benchmarking and allows companies to see where their money is best spent.

ING got more print media exposure than any other sponsor last year with 883 articles mentioning its name and Formula 1. This was followed by Vodafone, Fiat, Shell and AT&T. However, spending an estimated $65m, ING did not get the best value for money. This accolade goes to Allianz, which received 225 articles per million dollars invested.

The combined total of all articles mentioning the sponsors’ names and Formula 1 in 2007 was 8,243, a slight decrease on 2006’s 8,338, mainly due to fewer mentions of Formula 1’s tyre partners following Michelin’s departure.

The authors of Formula Money, Christian Sylt and Caroline Reid, are the world's only newspaper journalists to regularly cover the business of Formula 1. Their experience covering the sector stretches across all other types of media from magazines and books to radio and television.

The publishing partner of Formula Money is CNC, the communications consultancy which has worked with and represented several major sponsors, all car manufacturers and eight of the ten teams which participate in Formula 1.

shonguiz · 09-24-2008, 09:20 AM

On the Williams simulator

Centurion · 09-24-2008, 09:38 AM

Similar to Valencia although much wider in some sections. Still, the straights aren't long enough for anyone to launch an overtaking attempt. And with everybody scared of cutting chicanes I don't think we'll see any action on the circuit unless it rains.

Remy Zero · 09-25-2008, 12:00 AM

it's gonna be a boring guys, i'm afraid...

shonguiz · 09-25-2008, 07:57 AM

Yeah, if LDM says it, then it will be ******* boring.

Remy Zero · 09-25-2008, 01:57 PM

Article posted on Speed

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/artic...-miss-chicane/

"Drivers have been told that they must come to a complete stop if they jump one of the chicanes in Singapore, we can reveal. The new ruling was given in notes to team managers prior to their usual pre-weekend meeting with Charlie Whiting on Thursday evening. It comes on the heels of the Spa controversy, where jumping a chicane cost Lewis Hamilton victory. The ruling applies to Turn 2 and the controversial double chicane at Turns 10-12. If a driver puts all four wheels over the white line he will have to
come to a complete stop before rejoining the track."

Gullwing · 09-25-2008, 02:28 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Remy Zero

Article posted on Speed

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/artic...-miss-chicane/

"Drivers have been told that they must come to a complete stop if they jump one of the chicanes in Singapore, we can reveal. The new ruling was given in notes to team managers prior to their usual pre-weekend meeting with Charlie Whiting on Thursday evening. It comes on the heels of the Spa controversy, where jumping a chicane cost Lewis Hamilton victory. The ruling applies to Turn 2 and the controversial double chicane at Turns 10-12. If a driver puts all four wheels over the white line he will have to
come to a complete stop before rejoining the track."

Centurion · 09-25-2008, 02:34 PM

Wow!! Talk about a blow, no it's 100% guaranteed that the Singapore will just be an F1 parade in the dark.

Sunny · 09-25-2008, 03:21 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Remy Zero

Article posted on Speed

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/artic...-miss-chicane/

"Drivers have been told that they must come to a complete stop if they jump one of the chicanes in Singapore, we can reveal. The new ruling was given in notes to team managers prior to their usual pre-weekend meeting with Charlie Whiting on Thursday evening. It comes on the heels of the Spa controversy, where jumping a chicane cost Lewis Hamilton victory. The ruling applies to Turn 2 and the controversial double chicane at Turns 10-12. If a driver puts all four wheels over the white line he will have to
come to a complete stop before rejoining the track."

So all one has to do is push the guy you are racing wide to destroy his race.

Remy Zero · 09-26-2008, 01:20 AM

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