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Donnington you silly sausage

On a channel where you don't have to cough up another £15 a month to watch it !!

agreed with both suggestions.

A sorted Donington would be ace but they've got to improve the facilities.

Yeah, i actually dont think the current donny is an interesting circuit for racing. It mostly comes down to block passing on the melbourne loop.

Kwacky wrote:agreed with both suggestions.

A sorted Donington would be ace but they've got to improve the facilities.

the one and only gp race I watched live was at donnington, it must have been one of the last years there. The atmosphere was amazing and the racing good. I still remember the sight of the bike park, sort of behind Redgate from what I remember, I had never see so many bikes in one place..

It would be good to get to another race, but silverstone has never been a place I've wanted to goto as a spectator. IMO it's just too big, and many other race tracks offer a much better experience to the spectator.

I really don't like Silverstone. Too big and too many fences.

Wales would be a nice change. Donny is a great track but the facilities are tired.

Have they proposed a location for this stadium of Wales? Never been to Donny so can't comment on that. In fact, I haven't been to silverstone either! A new place for the riders to learn would be good thoigh

Interesting tweet from Stuart higgs this morning....

So to recap in last 6 mths MotoGP has lost 1m regular tv viewers per race & the Brit GP will be held at a track that's not built - cracking

Lol.

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Why has it lost viewers? Is this due to it going to BT sport? I know I've only seen one race now Eurosport no longer have it. I know its repeated in the week, but I dont watch TV then. I liked watching racing on the weekend.

Bring it to Caldwell. Imagine Marquez and co going over the mountain

I will be very surprised if the track is ever built in Wales.

Silverstone have said that they could not run a viable event in the future with the money Dorna wanted to host it. So how will an unbuilt circuit that is in the middle of nowhere make a profit from it?

And who is going to fund this circuit? As i understand it, you cannot use government money to build sporting venues under EU rules.

duke63 wrote:
As i understand it, you cannot use government money to build sporting venues under EU rules.

what about all the olympic stuff ?

and the commonwealth stuff, or university sports facilities?

National stadiums built for the common good are different.

Funding of privately owned facilities by government cash breaks competition rules.

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Swansea football stadium is currently being investigated because it was funded by the local council and currently runs at a loss.