Thailand Revs Up F1 Bid

[Card]

As an F1 fan, i think this would be great but what would be the issues involved?:

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Methinks potholes, street hawkers, tuk-tuk drivers and soi dogs would get in the way, as well as the cars being stopped for speeding!

Edited September 6, 2011 by soundman
No quotes or links to Bangkok Post please.

[Tropicalevo]

Phrases with words like "snowball in hell", flying pigs, pxss-ups in breweries spring to mind here.

There is about as much chance of Thailand hosting an F1 race on a regular basis as there is of OMID serving his sentence and telling the truth.

As much as I would love to see an F1 race here - it's never going to happen.

By the way - the cars would not be stopped for speeding, but they would be stopped for the BIB to collect tea money

Edited September 5, 2011 by Tropicalevo

[WarpSpeed]

:cheesy: not in our lifetime and I still have quite a few years left ....

I hope...........

Honestly I can't even begin to get into all the reasons it will not happen here but one primary reason is the fact that there is not enough experienced first rate marshals to begin with.

Edited September 5, 2011 by WarpSpeed

[RedNIvar]

Look at the 3G fiasco. The politician would never agree on who should be responsible of syphoning up money allocated for the GP. The will all take court injunctions against each other to put a hold on the event. This is Miracle Thailand, and it would probably take a miracle for the F1 GP to be hosted here.

[MAJIC]

Bernie Ecclestone - Owner, promoter and president of Formula One Management and Formula ... Formula One Race Director, Safety Delegate, Permanent Starter and head of the F1 ... wikipedia

IMO I can't see Bernie Ecclestone downgrading his F1,to allow Thailand to be the hosts,even for one race.

Edited September 5, 2011 by MAJIC

[ignis]

would be nice, but what cars would race ? or what would be the backhander to get everything out of customs

[bkkjames]

Did I hear world class event here? Let's be serious..

[rakman]

Bernie Ecclestone - Owner, promoter and president of Formula One Management and Formula ... Formula One Race Director, Safety Delegate, Permanent Starter and head of the F1 ... wikipedia

IMO I can't see Bernie Ecclestone downgrading his F1,to allow Thailand to be the hosts,even for one race.

Pay Bernie enough money and it gets done. Look at the amenities around the track in Korea, not anything like what it was proposed. No Yacht basin, sitting in low lying farm land.

Now a venue like Singapore would be a world class event. A road course in BKK (with proper pavement) would be a treat, and only block the some roads for a week. Brings in the jet setters and celebs. Put on a few concerts. Make it a huge party.

It would take several hundreds of millions (in Euros or US$ equivalent) and multi-year funding to get the ok from Bernie, and several hundreds of millions to build a suitable circuit. It also could be a major renovation exercise. Of course, most sites lose tens of millions on the event, but make it up with purchases and hotels and tourism.

Course workers would be trained, experienced marshals would come from other F-1 sites to help initially. Wish they would issue temporary work permits, I'd volunteer.

[Thaddeus]

Won't happen, the cars have nowhere to hang Buddha images and amulets from.

Would the pit stops have to include buying a flower garland and a sausage on a stick.

[janverbeem]

Would be nice to see them making shortcuts or entering the pits at the exit side.

[monsieurhappy]

F1 has been given the go ahead in Thailand!

The new circuit will be built near Pattaya.

The contractors have already been signed up, the same contractors who have nearly finished their last multi billion baht scheme at Theppasit/Thappaya roads.

Completion date and first F1 race scheduled for 2325.

Get your tickets here!

[ignis]

F1 has been given the go ahead in Thailand!

The new circuit will be built near Pattaya.

The contractors have already been signed up, the same contractors who have nearly finished their last multi billion baht scheme at Theppasit/Thappaya roads.

Completion date and first F1 race scheduled for 2325.

Get your tickets here!

?? 2325

What calender is this ? if Thai we are now 2554...

If Western why would it take over 300 years to build ?

[tonytigerbkk]

2325 (300 years), that sounds about right if the contact went to the same company that are doing the Theppasit/Thappaya roads.

No doubt even that schedule would be extended and the budget would quadruple

Regards,

Tiger.

[snowflake]

Since they would be working, what kind of work permit would they all have?

[janverbeem]

Is the article incomplete or did I read over it.

Normally there supposed to be a line that say's

" Within the next 2 years Thailand aims to be the F1 hub of Asia"

[nocturn]

F1 has been given the go ahead in Thailand!

The new circuit will be built near Pattaya.

The contractors have already been signed up, the same contractors who have nearly finished their last multi billion baht scheme at Theppasit/Thappaya roads.

Completion date and first F1 race scheduled for 2325.

Get your tickets here!

?? 2325

What calender is this ? if Thai we are now 2554...

If Western why would it take over 300 years to build ?

think about it mate, just think about it.

[VeraLynn]

F1 has been given the go ahead in Thailand!

The new circuit will be built near Pattaya.

The contractors have already been signed up, the same contractors who have nearly finished their last multi billion baht scheme at Theppasit/Thappaya roads.

Completion date and first F1 race scheduled for 2325.

Get your tickets here!

?? 2325

What calender is this ? if Thai we are now 2554...

If Western why would it take over 300 years to build ?

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[afarang]

Phrases with words like "snowball in hell", flying pigs, pxss-ups in breweries spring to mind here.

There is about as much chance of Thailand hosting an F1 race on a regular basis as there is of OMID serving his sentence and telling the truth.

As much as I would love to see an F1 race here - it's never going to happen.

By the way - the cars would not be stopped for speeding, but they would be stopped for the BIB to collect tea money

Tea money? What is that? it is more likely ,that there is NO whiskey in the jar!!! Please contribute to your favourite charity, and fill the jar

[bobdown1]

Easy put it on an upper deck expressway to beat the congestion below. The express ways are treated like race tracks anyway.