Due to all the unrest currently happening in Bahrain the F1 season opener may be moved to a new location or canceled.
http://www.upi.com/Sports_News/2011/02/19/F1s-Ecclestone-weighing-Bahrain-race-mov...
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Feb. 19, 2011 7:01 p.m. Feedyurhed HalfDork
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Feb. 19, 2011 7:30 p.m. z31maniac SuperDork
At least the troll pulled his head out of his........an interview a few days ago he was saying, "This stuff happens there all the time, it will blow over."
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Feb. 19, 2011 9:35 p.m. friedgreencorrado SuperDork
Considering that most of the protests in that part of the world are because of the economic inequality, it might be a bad idea to hold an F1 race there. The locals might see it as a "let em eat cake" motion by their feudal overlords.
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Feb. 19, 2011 9:41 p.m. irish44j Dork
yeah, maybe something more blue-collar like a sprint car race would be more appropriate
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Feb. 19, 2011 9:54 p.m. Dr. Hess SuperDork
I've been to Bahrain a few times in the 80's. It's the "garden spot" of the Middle East, after the Sand People destroyed Lebanon. You can actually get a beer in Bahrain. They built a super causeway from Saudi to Bahrain so the rich arabs can go drink whiskey and screw whores in Bahrain, then go back and be good moslems again the next day. There's like multiple armed checkpoints along the causeway. Where you gonna get on or off? It's a causeway. Everything is very expensive there. Ten cent items cost 2 bucks. Probably more now. The Bahrainians were not happy that the Saudi citizens got paid for being Saudi citizens (doing nothing at all), while the Bahrainians had to actually work for money. Really pissed them off. And every drive to town is a blue-collar sprint car race. You should see those traffic circles. And the stop lights count down like a tree at the drag strip. Red-yellow-green-nail it.
Anyway, the so-called protests in Bahrain will blow over. There's too much money at stake, plus that whole whiskey-whore thing. Can't screw that up.
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Feb. 19, 2011 11:31 p.m. oldsaw SuperDork
The board-blokes on Autosport.com have a sense of humour. They stated a "Countdown to Bahrain" thread, featuring pics of cars where the numbers indicate the days remaining until the race.
This one just showed up:
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Feb. 20, 2011 1:34 p.m. ncjay Reader
Maybe they can hold the season opener at Indy. Yeah, that will happen.
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Feb. 20, 2011 3:47 p.m. captainzib HalfDork
Dr. Hess wrote:
Anyway, the so-called protests in Bahrain will blow over. There's too much money at stake, plus that whole whiskey-whore thing. Can't screw that up.
Oh really?
Warning, NWS graphic content ahead.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwnUQcKXmMM
Also, the middle east isn't the ass backwards place the media portrays it to be. You say you can actually get a beer there. Well you can actually get a beer in more middle eastern countries than not. The whole region is becoming more like the west, and guess what, the people there generally prefer it that way.
Back on the topic of F1 racing, it would be nice if the ticket prices were more in line with that of other motorsports. I know it's not gonna happen, because obviously they're not having any trouble selling seats to events, but right now I see attending a race as something only people with a greater disposable income can accomplish.
I think it would be cool if they did a street course through Dubai, but maybe since it's only a couple hours from Yas Marina, they'd consider it redundant?
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Feb. 20, 2011 8:08 p.m. Feedyurhed HalfDork
That video is really sad.
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Feb. 21, 2011 10:54 a.m. Jamesc2123 Reader
Well: its official. Apparently they might be looking for a later date, albeit later in the year. But, as Mark Webber said in an article I read, whatever happens, its important to remember that F1 is completely trivial in the face what is happening there.
http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/f1-ecclestone-looking-for-new-bahrain-gp-date
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Feb. 21, 2011 11:03 a.m. oldeskewltoy Reader
hahahaha
bernie is such an A hole..... he tears races away from established european tracks so he can line the F1 pockets.
Remember Button @ Brazil last year... nearly got kidnapped for ransom.
Bernie doesn't give a crap aboput anything but money... if justice were actually just... Bernie would get ripped apart by some angry mod
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Feb. 21, 2011 1:46 p.m. DukeOfUndersteer SuperDork
BREAKING NEWS: It is cancelled
http://uk.eurosport.yahoo.com/21022011/58/bahrain-grand-prix-called.html
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Feb. 21, 2011 4:06 p.m. ncjay Reader
I've been into F1 since the legendary days of Senna an Mansell. As I learned more and more about the sport and how much Ecclestone has his fingers in every little piece of the pie, I've been waiting for that greedy S.O.B. to drop dead. I believe that F1 would be soo much better off with a reasonable, semi-intelligent human being at the helm instead of that jerkoff.
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Feb. 21, 2011 6:52 p.m. Billy_Bottle_Caps Reader
In reply to ncjay:
^^^ What he said.........
