claretandbluedagger 3:00 Fri Jul 14
Revealed: Audacious plan to hold F1 Grand Prix in London's Olympic Stadium
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An audacious plan to hold a Formula One Grand Prix in and around Stratford’s Olympic Park has been pitched to the mayor of London, rivalling a separate bid to host a race in the Docklands.
Reports of the Docklands plan surfaced earlier this week after the owners of Silverstone triggered a break clause in their contract with F1, casting doubt over the future of the British Grand Prix.
Now City A.M. can reveal that more than one attempt is being made to bring F1 to the capital.
Under a rival plan, cars would race into and then out of the Olympic Stadium in east London as part of a huge seven-day festival featuring concerts and other performances centred around the event. The proposal, a copy of which has been obtained by City A.M., boasts that up to a million people could attend the festival.
Full article: http://www.cityam.com/268444/olympic-stadium-formula-one-plan-revealed-audacious
How much would it cost E20 to make this happen?
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Saul Bollox
7:03 Fri Jul 14
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If you want the level of excitement of F1 you could go and watch the traffic on the M11
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Far Cough
6:11 Fri Jul 14
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Indy racing is boring, come to think of it, F1 is not much better
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El Scorchio
5:14 Fri Jul 14
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You could probably get away with in one end, s bend or similar in the middle and then out the other end.
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Trevor B
5:13 Fri Jul 14
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Stadium to be used as a pit lane ;-)
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El Scorchio
5:13 Fri Jul 14
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The stadium is nowhere near big enough for an oval which could accommodate F1 cars.
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Swiss.
4:18 Fri Jul 14
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Actually an Oval Indy car type track in the LS and then out on the streets and back in the Stadium could be quite a spectacle
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Robson
4:07 Fri Jul 14
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I guess our stadium is no less suited to F1 than it is to football, so yeah why not!
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El Scorchio
4:03 Fri Jul 14
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In and around the Olympic park is probably the only place in London where a Grand Prix could be realistically and logistically hosted although there would be outrageous costs remodelling loads of the park to turn it into something resembling a track.
It should stay at silverstone though. Really hope they come to some agreement to do so.
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gph
3:57 Fri Jul 14
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Linguistic evolution in action.
"Audacious" used to mean daring, now it means idiotic
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Northern Sold
3:53 Fri Jul 14
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Get acid chucked in your mush Hackney
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Gavros
3:35 Fri Jul 14
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Brook Care Home
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Northern Sold
3:34 Fri Jul 14
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Suppose will make a change on Monster Trucks at the Cesspit….
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Gavros
3:23 Fri Jul 14
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The silvertown plan seems more likely. the road theyre suggesting within the olympic park are too narrow to have a proper race down.
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Swiss.
3:19 Fri Jul 14
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F1 is boring shite
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Poplar Iron
3:18 Fri Jul 14
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Can only assume the playing area of the London Stadium is too big to host F1...!!
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goose
3:14 Fri Jul 14
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straight across the pitch would be a good idea!
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Mike Oxsaw
3:10 Fri Jul 14
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Behave!
They're just softening us up for our new stadium sponsors - Kwik-Fit.
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Gavros
3:06 Fri Jul 14
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the route would be north out of the stadium onto waterden road, a hairpin west onto the A12, down to stratford high street, left onto carpenters road, another hairpin onto the loop road back to the stadium.
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Trevor B
3:06 Fri Jul 14
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ag
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On The Ball
3:03 Fri Jul 14
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Trevor B 3:02 Fri Jul 14
When has that stopped anyone?
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claretandbluedagger
3:03 Fri Jul 14
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Rhetorical question. Particularly given their financial problems...
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