Out with MotoGP, in with F1

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If Kawasaki pulling out and Euro-sport loosing the television rights to BBC wasn’t bad enough Moto GP moving from Donington Park to Silverstone has to be the last straw!!

Any motorcycle race fan will agree that Donington is true home of Moto GP in this country and no other circuit in the world can compare to excitement of seeing that train of GP bikes three abreast coming down cranner curves into the old hairpin on their first lap, it makes the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.

After waiting all this time for Donington to modernise its facilities and improve the circuit even more we are being side lined to Silverstone so F1 can benefit from that new two hundred mile per hour straight and sixty percent spectator viewing points.

Silverstone is flat, difficult to spectate and if it was as good as Richard Philips (Silverstone Director) says why is F1 being held at Donington? Will Valentino Rossi refer to this as his third home, I don’t think so.

So its out with the bikes in with the cars, lets how long it takes for GP crowds to be back down to 18 thousand again like the last race held at Silverstone back in 1986.

John Leeming

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