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  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    The asshole also said that the Montreal organizers have only paid 1/2 of what they owe for the last three years. The MTL party says there was a commercial disagreement for the 2008 event only.
    Extortion.

    yep
    lets see no race in Canada but instead UAE

    gee tough to figure that one out

    Im looking into packages for Brazil, Turkey and Japan (I have a place to stay there) next year. But truthfully, I doubt I will spring for it.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Get_Right wrote:
    yep
    lets see no race in Canada but instead UAE

    gee tough to figure that one out

    Im looking into packages for Brazil, Turkey and Japan (I have a place to stay there) next year. But truthfully, I doubt I will spring for it.

    I was suppose to be in be in Brazi this year for the race! oh well, next year I guess.

    I hear Montreal may get the race back. oh and the UAE may get another race.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    MrBrian wrote:
    I was suppose to be in be in Brazi this year for the race! oh well, next year I guess.

    I hear Montreal may get the race back. oh and the UAE may get another race.
    Bernie says Montreal isn't getting the race back.
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Rygar wrote:
    Bernie says Montreal isn't getting the race back.

    Well that sucks!....
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    MrBrian wrote:
    Well that sucks!....
    Most of what Bernie says/does sucks ;)
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    Bernie says Montreal isn't getting the race back.
    source??
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    source??
    TSN: http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/formula_one/story/?id=252868&lid=sublink04&lpos=headlines_auto_racing-formula_one
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    TSN: http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/formula_one/story/?id=252868&lid=sublink04&lpos=headlines_auto_racing-formula_one

    I think that is only speaking to the 2009 season
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    I think that is only speaking to the 2009 season
    My bad, I meant next year specifically when I responded to MrB's post as I assumed he meant 2009. Hopefully we have it again for 2010.

    How tight is the pack going to be with standardized engines and no David Coulthard to smash into/blame people?
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    My bad, I meant next year specifically when I responded to MrB's post as I assumed he meant 2009. Hopefully we have it again for 2010.

    How tight is the pack going to be with standardized engines and no David Coulthard to smash into/blame people?


    hahahahaha first turn will be a doozy!
    I think it will be back, but now I wonder if North Amercian can match the fees Bernie is probably getting from the Middle East and Asia-I fear not
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    hahahahaha first turn will be a doozy!
    I think it will be back, but now I wonder if North Amercian can match the fees Bernie is probably getting from the Middle East and Asia-I fear not
    Yeah the cash flow going into his pockets from the ME won't be matched I don't think.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    Yeah the cash flow going into his pockets from the ME won't be matched I don't think.


    I will be bummed if they dont have a race in North American in 2010
    kinda like when the NHL cancelled the season over money

    it will make me less of a fan

    No way I can spend 5K for a trip overseas
    not without the wife anyway ;)
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    I will be bummed if they dont have a race in North American in 2010
    kinda like when the NHL cancelled the season over money

    it will make me less of a fan

    No way I can spend 5K for a trip overseas
    not without the wife anyway ;)
    hahahaha, nice one :p
    I wouldn't go overseas to see F1 unless that greedy prick pays my way.

    Although on that note I'm as big a hockey fan now as I ever was.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    hahahaha, nice one :p
    I wouldn't go overseas to see F1 unless that greedy prick pays my way.

    Although on that note I'm as big a hockey fan now as I ever was.

    Yeah, Im starting to feel that way, although I could do Japan on the cheap-but the time of year is a tough one for me.

    I am just coming back to hockey. Slowly. I still havent gotten over the whalers moving south. :D
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    Yeah, Im starting to feel that way, although I could do Japan on the cheap-but the time of year is a tough one for me.

    I am just coming back to hockey. Slowly. I still havent gotten over the whalers moving south. :D
    Moving a team (unless they're already in Florida) isn't right.
    I'll keep watching races on TV and guess I will have to settle for that until 2010 :p
  • MrBrian
    MrBrian Posts: 2,672
    Working on a solution for 2009 and beyond

    A delegation is heading to London this week in a bid to save the axed Canadian Grand Prix.

    Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay will accompany a Quebec province minister, Raymond Bachand, as well as the Canadian federal minister of international trade Michael Fortier, as they meet with Bernie Ecclestone on Thursday, the Montreal radio station CJAD said.

    "What we will be discussing is a business deal," Tremblay is quoted as saying by the Canadian business newspaper Financial Post.

    "If we do nothing, it is gone."

    Fortier said Canada has a five-year contract to stage the Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

    "There are three years left on it," he noted. "I believe on the basis of the contract we can move forward."

    "It is a surprise to me that we've come to this situation. We will do whatever we can to see that the Grand Prix stays in Montreal," Fortier stated.
    ---

    Let's see what happens.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    MrBrian wrote:
    Working on a solution for 2009 and beyond

    A delegation is heading to London this week in a bid to save the axed Canadian Grand Prix.

    Montreal mayor Gerald Tremblay will accompany a Quebec province minister, Raymond Bachand, as well as the Canadian federal minister of international trade Michael Fortier, as they meet with Bernie Ecclestone on Thursday, the Montreal radio station CJAD said.

    "What we will be discussing is a business deal," Tremblay is quoted as saying by the Canadian business newspaper Financial Post.

    "If we do nothing, it is gone."

    Fortier said Canada has a five-year contract to stage the Grand Prix at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve

    "There are three years left on it," he noted. "I believe on the basis of the contract we can move forward."

    "It is a surprise to me that we've come to this situation. We will do whatever we can to see that the Grand Prix stays in Montreal," Fortier stated.
    ---

    Let's see what happens.
    What a dick that guy is.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    Rygar wrote:
    What a dick that guy is.

    If they brought their checkbooks, then there is hope.
    Bernie isnt gonna give the GP back without major $$$$$$$$$$$$$


    Clarification Note from Grand Prix F1 du Canada
    Racing series F1
    Date 2008-10-20

    REGARDING ALLEGATIONS FROM BERNIE ECCLESTONE

    Montreal - Contrary to allegations made by Bernie Ecclestone regarding money owed by Grand Prix F1 du Canada for past hosting rights, the organizers of the Canadian Round of the Formula 1 World Championship would like to make clear that Mr. Ecclestone has received and accepted the terms of payment that were fully agreed to for the 2006 and 2007 events. According to Paul Wilson, Vice-President Marketing Grand Prix du Canada: "It is totally untrue to suggest that our organization has defaulted on payments owed for the past three years."

    As reported this past week, Mr. Wilson continued: "It is true that we have a commercial disagreement regarding our monetary obligations, but only for 2008. This is the result of an historical difference within the contractual understanding between the two parties. We were working hard to resolved the matter in order to meet our 2008 obligations when Mr. Ecclestone, without notice, surprised everyone by unilaterally dropping the Canadian Grand Prix from the 2009 FIA schedule last October 7."

    "We believe that it is important to shed the light on this matter and to clarify any allegations that could tarnish the reputation of our organization. We do not accept that the integrity of the Grand Prix du Canada should be called into question, when it is evident that the table is being set for new negotiations with different levels of the Canadian government," concluded Mr. Wilson.

    Bring that fucker to court and force him to hold the race under the terms of the contract.
  • Rygar
    Rygar Posts: 8,711
    Get_Right wrote:
    If they brought their checkbooks, then there is hope.
    Bernie isnt gonna give the GP back without major $$$$$$$$$$$$$

    Bring that fucker to court and force him to hold the race under the terms of the contract.
    Agreed on all counts.
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,136
    getting psyched for the finale
    should be good, a lot at stake
    and finally one I can watch in real time


    been checking 2009 races

    spain might be an option some decent packages available

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