Spa license suspended

Wed Sep 23, 2009 12:47 pm

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009/09/ ... t-f1-race/

Wow... 17 years
at least

Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:23 pm

Words cannot express

Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:52 pm

F***n' gutted! Spa did much more for exciting racing this season that a million OWG's ugly designs could.

What about other races?

PS: or maybe it's BE's cunning plan to find an excuse to ruin the legendary track for more 'entertaining' events a-la Singapore? Timing for this outrageous news is a bit suspicious isn't it?

Wed Sep 23, 2009 1:57 pm

Thats it time to Invade!

We can make just the track its own country!

I am gutted, this is the race i most wanted to see live, infact is on my list of things to do before i die! (i was waiting till the ticket prices were not 4 times more expensive than going to see a another other motor sport at Brands hatch)

:evil:

Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:25 pm

Are those Belgian politicians nuts?

Wed Sep 23, 2009 2:32 pm

"It is believed that the decision comes following a 2007 complaint posted by people living in the vicinity of the legendary track."

People live near there? Isn't the main complaint about Spa that it's in the middle of nowhere? We need to investigate the signatures on this complaint, I believe half of them to be deceased or cattle. Someone should really make up a petition to get it back, I'm sure there's many many more people that want a race there than don't.

Wed Sep 23, 2009 3:51 pm

jon-mullen wrote:"It is believed that the decision comes following a 2007 complaint posted by people living in the vicinity of the legendary track."

People live near there? Isn't the main complaint about Spa that it's in the middle of nowhere? We need to investigate the signatures on this complaint, I believe half of them to be deceased or cattle. Someone should really make up a petition to get it back, I'm sure there's many many more people that want a race there than don't.

I agree.

Give it a couple of years and they'll lose a major part of their income from people visiting their restaurants and cafeterias. They'll come back begging for a race.

Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:16 pm

No race in SPA for the next 17 years :cry:

Ah what a epic fail.
I am sure this track was there long before the people who organised the complaint.
Politics should not decice over sport. The race is only oneweek end in the whole year and just people who really live next to the track will get disturbed by the noise. We can just hope that there will be new elections soon.

Wed Sep 23, 2009 5:27 pm

thats so horrible, one of the most exciting races there is on the calendar, why dont they get rid of Valenica.

Wed Sep 23, 2009 6:08 pm

Well, it's an oportunity. Spa could be the first track to comply with noise regulations, couldn't it?

Time to include silencers in the exhaust of F1 cars... Aren't they "green" at FIA? Well, what about the incredible noise of those cars? I bet Mosley would be delighted to launch the SERS (Sound Energy Recovery System).

Another possible solution could be to use baffles around the track or earth berms. It's pretty straightforward to design them to reach the noise levels that legislation demands.

Melbourne sound tube. Let's dream a little: I always wanted to design a track with seats OVER the track, on top of a transparent roof... It's ugly... like the Eiffel Tower

With all due respect I wouldn't blame politicians, I guess that this is a legal ruling. Noise levels are enforced everywhere.

Last idea: pay some vacation package to all neighboors during race weekend.

Seventeen years... time enough for Max Mosley to quit.

Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:55 pm

Think for a moment Ciro, 17 years from now the oil reserves are perhaps dried out and F1 will be nuclear and silent?

Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:13 pm

Maybe things are not so grim
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/78806

Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:33 pm

Ciro Pabón wrote:Well, it's an oportunity. Spa could be the first track to comply with noise regulations, couldn't it?

Time to include silencers in the exhaust of F1 cars... Aren't they "green" at FIA? Well, what about the incredible noise of those cars? I bet Mosley would be delighted to launch the SERS (Sound Energy Recovery System).

Another possible solution could be to use baffles around the track or earth berms. It's pretty straightforward to design them to reach the noise levels that legislation demands.

Melbourne sound tube. Let's dream a little: I always wanted to design a track with seats OVER the track, on top of a transparent roof... Imagine that: the seats couldn't be closer to the action, even with large safety run-off areas. That's what I would call a XXIth century circuit. I would actually pay money if they allowed me to design something like that over Eau Rouge, nonwithstanding purists complains. It's ugly... like the Eiffel Tower

With all due respect I wouldn't blame politicians, I guess that this is a legal ruling. Noise levels are enforced everywhere.

Last idea: pay some vacation package to all neighboors during race weekend.

Seventeen years... time enough for Max Mosley to quit.

Cheaper than the vacation package...

Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:49 pm

The belgian government suspended the courts decision, Spa keeps his license has more environment checks are made.

Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:27 pm

Afterburner wrote:The belgian government suspended the courts decision, Spa keeps his license has more environment checks are made.

Indeed.

Don't worry guys, this is Belgium, there's often a stir but things usually turn out ok in the end

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