What is it with these people?
When, if ever will they stop?
Why the constant desire to wreck London and ensure it’s reduction to dystopia?
Are ordinary workers never to be allowed to pursue their day to day activities without constant interruption?
It appears that having nigh on wrecked the City for months with those bloody Olympics they now want to hold a road race round the West End. I do not see any other capital city in the Western Hemisphere committing such commercial suicide. Bernie Ecclestone, a wretched malignant dwarf if ever there was one, wants a F1 circuit basically round HMQ’s joint.
The money, the tourists, the profit etc etc.
What about the poor bloody residents and workers?
What about the clean air acts?
What about the roads being withdrawn from the paid for network?
What about the lost productivity and profits of ordinary companies?
They have a couple of perfectly good circuits elsewhere, let them use those or build a new one at their own expense somewhere out of the way, Rockall might be eminently suitable! Why ordinary taxpayers should be constantly disrupted going about their lives in favour of idiots running, jumping and now vrooming is totally beyond me. Don’t these bloody retards have anything more constructive to do? And if they must perform, would they please go and do it out of sight as consenting adults not in a public place!
Londoners need a revolt to stop all this nonsense.
Boadicea's Chariot 
Chill out, CO! The route being discussed is not residential and it is centred on the Olympic Park. I think your protestations may exceed the wishes of the Londoners you want to protect!
The map I saw was round Hyde Park, Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square! In the papers yesterday.
I think it is up to the Londoners to protect their own incomes. I doubt Eccleston will want to share any of his ill gotten loot any more than Coe is flashing his cash!
I note Coe is busy importing more immigrants, the torch carrier gone awol before it even begins!!! (Brings a whole new meaning to ‘doing a runner’!)
I bet he won’t be paying the inevitable state handouts out of his own pocket.
God rot the lot of them, nothing like leaving the taxpayer to foot the bill.
CO, apologies! They’ve changed the original story – and Stirling mosss likes it! Gawd ‘elp us.
Janus, just checked, the Olympic idea was kicked into touch, it is now posited as a road race in the West End. With much support from all those who will profit! (Anyone surprised?)
Various articles on it in the F1 page of the sports section in the DT today.
OH sorry too, simultaneous postings!
I reckon he couldn’t afford the stadium not enough seats to gouge a profit, this way he has got Santander to pick up the bill, he seriously is one inventive malignant dwarf, got to give him that!
I’ve attended perhaps 10 GPs, (I was at the one where Peter Revson had his tragic accident)
They’re great fun, if Londoners want one then Bernie and Boris should get on with it.
I’d vote for one here tomorrow.
From The Guardian
Looks good
Soutie, correct me if I am wrong but I am under the impression that you have lived in Africa most/all of your life? Perhaps you have no actual idea of how much more the taxes, both direct and indirect are in the UK than what you pay in SA?
Londoners are some of the most heavily taxed of all people in the UK, with the dreaded congestion charge added, extortionate parking fees for outside your own house, lethally expensive public transport and all establishments charging top dollar for everything everywhere, not forgetting housing taxes to make your eyes water; there is a pitiful amount left after for discretionary spending. I doubt there are many ordinary people that can afford the fees for endless visits to international sports jamborees like yourself.
Try putting on someone else’s shoes!
Good evening CO,
When I first saw your post with the poetical line spacings I thought that you were entering the Pets competition. Sadly, your dogs have not been immortalised sonnet or otherwise.
Formula One and motorsport in general is not something I get ecstatic about though I do confess to enjoy playing F1 racing on Xbox; very realistic with the added bonus of knowing you are not in mortal peril every time you take the wheel. As regards your complaints I can see that there would be plenty of disruption. As a non-Londoner it is not my fight. From the motoring fans viewpoint they will probably tell you that street circuits are the most exciting as there is not much margin for error. The run off area is usually a wall.
Monaco does it every year, Christina, and it doesn’t seem to be commercial suicide for them. As TR says, the run-off area is often a wall or the harbour. Could be fun to see Schumacher joining the ducks in St James’s Park!
Thanks for the map Soutie. From a quick scan it appears the race goes through the Queen’s bedroom. This could play havoc with the Duke’s carburetor. Personally I would love to see this take place, a once a year ear-ache of a race, and an invitation to all disaffected foreigners to come into the West End to enjoy a picnic.
Oh come, Monaco, the capital of a tinpot Principality that relies on tourism and tax evasion!
Hardly the financial centre of the Western World is it?
Interesting that you all seem to like the increased probability of crashes.
I can see that this would be the last straw for a lot of financial companies, an annual event of this disturbance level would have a lot heading for the doors. Frankfurt has been sitting waiting a long time!
CO, quit while you’re ahead – everybody like F1! 🙂
Oh No they don’t, Janus. I see nothing particularly wonderful or exciting in watching a bunch of over-paid idiots zooming round and round…
Adelaide has an annual race around the town – nothing on the scale of what is being proposed for London. It’s a nightmare and doesn’t just disrupt the city for one day – there’s all the preparation that causes chaos for a week before-hand.
Attending ‘jamborees’ is not as expensive as you think, I’ve taken my list from your Olympic post and costed it out.
The events listed cost less in total for me to attend than four tickets to The Lion King (Lyceum) (£220)
British Lions v EP Kings (rugby)(£4)
South Africa v Japan (football)(£12)
Portugal v Ivory Coast (football)(£12)
Germany v Serbia (football)(£12)
England v Slovenia (football)(£12)
Holland v Brazil (football world cup ¼ final)(£40)
Germany v Uruguay (football 3rd/4th play off)(£free)
Boks v All Blacks (rugby)(£30)
SA v Aus (cricket)(£10)
International 7′s (rugby)(£15)
Boks v England (rugby)(£40)
Total (£187)
You said western capital, Christina, and Monte Carlo is that, so stop wriggling. Practice there is on the Thursday, so everyone can continue life as normal on the Friday. The locals either rent out their properties for fantastic sums or stay and enjoy or endure. It is particularly noisy since the sound echoes off the tall buildings, which would not happen on the London circuit. Hotels raise their prices, extra trains are laid on and a good profit is had by all.
Boadicea, agreed.
Which is why I suggested that Londoners should decide.
I agree that racing cars are not everyone’s cup of tea, the organizers are expecting over 300,000 at Silverstone next weekend
Personally, I would much prefer a NASCAR race in London. The cars are much more evenly matched and the results do reflect the drivers’ skill far more than F1 does.
Now we’re talking, me too!
I’ve recorded last night’s Nationwide race from Kentucky to watch later this evening 😉
Soutie, how incredibly cheap!
Try it elsewhere, cost an arm and a leg!
Re the F1 Be careful what you wish for you just might get it.
(And the bill for the policing!)
Any that think that London would only be disrupted for a couple of days needs certifying!
Reckon those roads would be closed for a month or more whilst elf and safety fart about, erect seating, erect barriers, faff over Zil lanes and bigwigs. Probably prosecute any that looked out their window for free knowing those bastards! (Look at the fuss to try and charge for Box Hill cycling) Free viewing from John of Groats only!!! And then there will be no tickets available for Londoners, all been reserved for arse lickers!!!
Don’t you ever learn?