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Tifosi
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Tifosi
Post Number: 4736
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 68.95.131.56
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 4:28 pm: |    |
long term future secure cheyyalanTe F1 needs an american driver. Scott Speed is the only person who has a chance to attain that privilage in the near future |
Nag_rocks
Bewarse Legend
Username: Nag_rocks
Post Number: 15611
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 65.15.78.43
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 4:27 pm: | |
even this year the attendance didn't even cross 100K and Indy is loosing money every year. If Indy rejects F1 then they might have to go back to watkins glen like they did in the 80's |
Tifosi
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Tifosi
Post Number: 4733
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 68.95.131.56
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 4:19 pm: | |
adi matram cheppalemu mama
we just have to wait and see how things settle down. ippudu evvaru em maaTaaDina in the heat of the moment.
After the FIA hearing if everyone is satisfied with the ruling we might actually have a USGP in 2006 with assurances from all the teams.
But we cant ignore the fact that damage has been done...next year inta turnout unDakapovacchu. But if the championship is as close and riveting as this years....rest assured we racing fans will forgive and forget |
Nag_rocks
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Username: Nag_rocks
Post Number: 15609
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 65.15.78.43
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 4:15 pm: | |
tif maaya,
according to some track officials at Indy, F1 is finished in america for quite a while. |
Tifosi
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Tifosi
Post Number: 4717
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 68.95.131.56
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 3:09 pm: | |
anta ledu mama
ferrari leni series ne evvaru serious ga tesukoDu...ippudu unna line up lo kuda other than toyota and ferrari there are no other works team...its all ways been a combo of an engine supplier and a chassis developer in partnership.
GPWC is only a veiled threat to get more money out of FOM which is owned by Bernie. Never discount the short brit. He has some aces up his sleeve.
earlier ferrari was a part of the GPWC and it broke ranks and signed on for the renewed concorde agreement which presently ends in 2K8. Bernies policy of divide and conquer is a tired and tested method.
come 2k8 things will still be the same. |
Nag_rocks
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Username: Nag_rocks
Post Number: 15602
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 65.15.78.43
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 3:02 pm: | |
michelin help tho 2008 lo F1 ki competition ga inko series start settaru anta nijamena? Atta sette IRL and CART bathuku emayyindo F1 kuda ade avuddi. |
Plz_kissme
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Username: Plz_kissme
Post Number: 7294
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 65.24.93.201
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 12:19 pm: | |
michelin ni boycott sette kevv untadi!
maaa karthikeyan inko 1-2 races kummukovachu |
Tifosi
Mudiripoyina Bewarse
Username: Tifosi
Post Number: 4707
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 68.95.131.56
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 12:15 pm: | |
BOYCOTT MICHELIN
FIA and FOM ni emi peekaleru....it was an actual race....em anna argument unte it can be made against michelin and the michelin shod teams for acting prejudicial |
Nag_rocks
Bewarse Legend
Username: Nag_rocks
Post Number: 15596
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 131.96.2.208
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 10:29 am: | |
for PKM and tif maayas. |
Infinity
Yavvanam Kaatesina Bewarse
Username: Infinity
Post Number: 1127
Registered: 04-2005
Posted From: 192.127.94.7
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 10:22 am: | |
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Nag_rocks
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Username: Nag_rocks
Post Number: 15595
Registered: 03-2004
Posted From: 131.96.2.208
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Votes: 0(Vote!) | | Posted on Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - 10:20 am: | |
Before a frustrated Formula One fan from Colorado Springs left Indianapolis on Monday, he hired a lawyer to file a class-action lawsuit against nearly everyone connected to Sunday's ill-fated U.S. Grand Prix.
Larry Bowers, who had paid more than $500 for five tickets to the race, sued the Federation Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA); Formula One Management, which oversees the finances of the series; the tiremaker Michelin; and the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, said his lawyer, William Bock III.
The lawsuit, which was filed with the U.S. District Court in Indianapolis, contended that Sunday's event did not "constitute a true grand prix race under FIA and Formula One rules in that the race was started with an insufficient number of participants."
The U.S. Grand Prix had only six cars after the drivers of 14 other cars, all using Michelin tires, withdrew from the race, citing concerns with the safety of the tires. The cars that raced used Bridgestone tires.
Bock said in a telephone interview that Bowers, who had attended the race five times, "felt the situation was handled poorly; he felt as if he wasn't treated fairly."
Bowers was not alone. As the speedway began to sell tickets Monday for the 2006 U.S. Grand Prix,some fans visited the speedway offices in Indianapolis looking for refunds.
As of Monday night, no refunds were offered. Fred Nation, the executive vice president for communications at the speedway, said the track's officials met Monday to review whether Formula One Management fulfilled its contractual agreement.
More meetings remain. The seven teams that fielded the 14 cars that did not race Sunday have been summoned to Paris for a hearing on June 29 with the FIA, the governing body for Formula One. Punishments - like fines, docked points or suspensions - could be levied.
Those seven teams, representing 70 percent of the starting field, said the Michelin tires they were provided with were unsafe to use, particularly on a banked turn known as Turn 1 by Indianapolis 500 fans.
After two accidents during practice on Friday, Michelin asked if a chicane, or a series of turns, could be built before the turn to slow the cars and prevent crashes.
The FIA said Monday that cars using Michelin tires should have raced anyway, but at lower speeds around the perilous turn.
"Formula One is a sporting contest," the governing body said on its Web site. "It must operate to clear rules. These cannot be negotiated each time a competitor brings the wrong equipment to a race."
The federation mandates that only one set of tires be used in a weekend.
Frederic Henry-Biabaud, Michelin's deputy director of competition, said in an interview with The Associated Press on Monday that Michelin planned to stay in Formula One, despite speculation that it would help form a competing series in 2008.
The FIA, the Formula One director Bernie Ecclestone and Ferrari, the most powerful team in the series, are on one side of what is perceived to be a widening chasm.
The nine other teams, including the seven supplied by Michelin, are on the other side. All nine supported the addition of the chicane to the track Sunday. Only Ferrari was opposed. Michael Schumacher, Sunday's winner, drives for Ferrari.
Henry-Biabaud said the problems with the tires might have been caused by the track. The curve known as Turn 1, which uses about one mile of the two-and-a-half-mile oval, is punishing, Henry-Biabaud said.
"At Indianapolis, the tire coating suffers," he said. "The circuit is very traditional, but the straight line before the banking delivers massive pressure on the car and the tires. For the car to do the whole race, we have to be sure the tires can last."
But this was not the first U.S. Grand Prix to be held in Indianapolis; it was the sixth.
The race has been held at five other tracks since 1958, most notably from 1961 to 1980 at Watkins Glen. Ticket prices to this year's race were $75 to $150.
The first four races at Indianapolis were in September, but the race was moved to early summer last year because of waning attendance. The U.S. Grand Prix drew about 100,000 Sunday, a fourth of the crowd that attends the Indianapolis 500.
There is a fear that Sunday's race could harm Formula One in the United States, where the series is attempting to build a fan base.
The speedway pays Formula One a sanctioning fee generally believed to be $10 million to $15 million to stage the event. The speedway makes money by selling tickets, concessions and merchandise.
"It was the FIA that made the decision to enforce the rules, which meant no chicane or other changes to the rules," Nation said in an e-mail message. "IMS was ready to install a chicane if that was the decision. We had no role in the decision."
Joie Chitwood, the speedway president, said in an interview Sunday night that the speedway would look into whether Formula One broke its contract with the speedway. Recovering some of the sanctioning fee, or all of it, could lead to a refund offer. |
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