Comments on: Melbourne Grand Prix in doubt

By: No Name

No Name — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 21:56:37 +0000

Come to the UK Peter. Interest rate gone down today to 5.25% base rate

By: Peter

Peter — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 12:44:13 +0000

I live in Melbourne all this news lately is starting to be depressing. Between losing the Grand Prix and interest rates going through the roof, I serioulsy thinking of moving to Queensland were the economy is booming.

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 11:06:33 +0000

yes i knew what you were getting at…….ha ha ha

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:12:46 +0000

Yes I remember that one was but remember last year when you took your rock collection along……….you also had a couple of RC Roos!!

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 10:01:43 +0000

ah yes truely awesome sounds……….
and also the flame or puff of black smoke on drop of revs paints the rest of that picture perfectly.

well it actually has made some historic photos over the years.

kangaroo aint real??
well maybe you better ask Jim Richards if the one he hit felt real………..ha ha ha
ah JR is a great bloke though

By: No Name

No Name — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:41:58 +0000

Calm down BM…you’ll have us all going. RC Kangaroos interesting, I vaguely remember seeing one in a film somewhere with a gun barrel from its mouth.

Oh yes the F1. Naahh you’ll never lose it completely. Bernie will buckle under pressure.

By: Bavarian Missile

Bavarian Missile — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:35:12 +0000

Awwwwwww,thats mean Andrew.

Remember your Kangaroo isn’t real………remote control.shhh

Could you imagine the noise though coming down the mountain going back through the gears……………I get all tingly thinking about it………

By: Andrew M

Andrew M — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 09:21:44 +0000

Thats right Richo,
the track isnt as smooth (flat) as F1′s would require.

the cars would be pretty much suspended by the front and rear body with the wheels off the ground through places such as the dipper ha ha ha

also i thought F1 tracks had to have min 8 car width tracks ha ha ha

oh and then wait till a kangaroo breathes on a F1 car………. the bloody wheels would fall off

By: Richo

Richo — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 08:42:08 +0000

Mt Panarama is a fantastic race track, be realistically it is fairly unsafe even for touring cars, for open wheelers it is straight out stupidity. There is no run off and in order to create enough run off to make the place safe for the high speed of F1 cars they would have to completely destroy the circuit. Also F1 cars would literally take off coming down the mountain particularly in places such as the dipper. The track is simply to extreem for that kind of car.

In short, The track is NOT safe for F1 cars, and in order to make it safe for F1 cars, they would have to completely rewin it.

By: Manic Mustang

Manic Mustang — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 00:01:30 +0000

I live within a kilometer of the Clipsal track in Adelaide (which is also the old F1 track) and i get all the noise and the traffic restrictions, and i love it. For a week of the year, im disadvataged with traffic restriction, but who cares, im at the track for the 4 days of the event, so it doesnt worry me, and i love the sounds of the V8′s, and the old muscle cars aswell. I was there at the last adelaide F1, and it was a brillant atmosphere, that has never been replicated by Melbourne, and i dont think they have ever gotten a bigger crowd than our last F1 in Melbourne. Ive always been disapointed about adleiade loosing F1, but i dont care so long as we can hold on F1 event a year in Australia.