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F1: Canadians Go to London to Save GP

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A delegation is heading to Britain this week in a bid to save the axed race.

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Unless the Canadian delegation brought Bernie the Weasel about half of Canada's GNP nothing will be accomplished.

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The Canadian delegation should have booked a flight to Indianapolis to work out a multi-year deal with Tony George for IRL racing in Montreal.

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If the Canadian and the US GP teamed up their money. Maybe their could be an, "North American GP"... like there is the, "European GP". That way both countries can take turns each year. And at least that way everyone wins in this cluster.

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It's a waste of time talking to Bernie. Did anyone see Windsor talking to him about Indy this past weekend during the Pre-Race show? He's all lip service. He's going to do what he wants to do because he thinks he can--screw contracts, screw the fans.

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I agree with what D Scott said. Indycar has an opportunity to be the Number One open wheeled racing series in North America. Run a race or two in Mexico and add the Montreal Race into the schedule and bam you have the biggest series in North America. This is an opportunity to tell F1 if you dont want us, we dont want YOU! Spec motors are in the works for F1 and Indy has offers from several manufactures for engines, lets make Indycar better then F1 could ever be.

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I think one of the "problems" was because of the split a few years back everyone just got sick of "pointy nose cars" and F1 got lumped into it by the casual fan, but now that the merger is done interest will peak back up for BOTH OF THEM

I really don't buy the "no American" idea personally but who really know

INDY holding the race was an interesting idea, but only works because of the amount of fans that can attend, I think a better argument for RACING could be Road America for the US, and rotating between Canada/US/Mexico since everyone HAS road courses.

For NEXT year there already is the collapse of the French GP so I have no idea why he gave such a brush off to peter windsor in that interview, UNLESS there are behind the scenes talks.

The rotating schedule only had the problem of the media/timing/scoring/pit areas to be bought up to the new specs that berni wants.

The Canadian already has most(all)of it, Road America has a lot of races so I would guess they have renovated to close to that, the only wild card is whatever road course that Mexico would use, and they part that no one is going to be spending the amount needed in one shot anymore, it would need to be done over a few years.