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South Korea is pushing ahead:
South Korea still pushing for 2010 race

By Jonathan Noble - Friday, September 18th 2009, 10:21 GMT

South Korea's hopes of holding its first Formula 1 race next year have received a big boost with the government this week passing legislation to approve funding for the race.

Although South Korea's event has not appeared on provisional calendars shown to F1 teams so far, the country is pushing ahead with its ambition to hold a grand prix.

And its preparations have stepped up a gear after the governing Grand National Party and Democratic Party passed an 'F1 Act' this week that support the construction and management of the venue, plus calls for financial support from the administration.

The act means that central government will fund any shortfall in the budget to build the track, with finances having so far been raised through private investment.

Young-Cho Chung, the CEO of race promoters Korea Auto Valley Operation, said: "With the passing of the F1 Act and the construction of the circuit well above its progression rate, the dream of having an international motor sport circuit has become a reality for the motor sports community.

"By maintaining strong co-operative relationships with the central government and with the support on a national level we will do our best to make the 2010 F1 Korean Grand Prix an event of unprecedented success."
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So the government will make sure the circuit gets built, but can they make sure it will be built in time? I should think the owers That be would like a circuit to host at least one international race - Abu Dhabi has the GP2 Asia cars, Valencia had GT3s - before it gets opened. Maybe SuperGT could do something if needed ...
 
Aaand the official 2010 race calendar has been revealed:

Bahrain - Sakhir - Mar 14
Australia - Melbourne - Mar 28
Malaysia - Kuala Lumpur - April 04
China - Shanghai - April 18
Spain - Barcelona - May 09
Monaco - Monte-Carlo - May 23
Turkey - Istanbul - May 30
Canada - Montreal - Jun 13
Europe - Valencia - Jun 27
Great Britain - Donington Park - Jul 11
Germany - Hockenheim - Jul 25
Hungary - Budapest - Aug 01
Belgium - Spa-Francorchamps - Aug 29
Italy - Monza - Sep 12
Singapore - Marina Bay - Sep 26 *
Japan - Suzuka - October 03
Korea - October 17
Abu Dhabi - Yas Marina - October 31
Brazil - São Paulo - November 14

* night race
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Wow, thats a long calendar! Quite an early start and late ending, 19 races :eek:

Korea confirmed? Have they even started building the track yet?

Overall, I like such a long and varied season, great to see Canada back, and Brazil back as the finale.
I'm not so sure about Bahrain being the start again, but I suppose we get it out of the way early on.
 
Ardius
Korea confirmed? Have they even started building the track yet?
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They haven't started, but they have got a year. And I'm led to believe that the Koreans are pretty industrious.

Ardius
I'm not so sure about Bahrain being the start again, but I suppose we get it out of the way early on.
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The idea about having Bahrain as the season opener is that the teams have a major test there two weeks before the season begins. In order to save costs, the can leave all non-essential equipment there.
 
Ardius
Its pretty obvious we're talking about South Korea, or do you think people will get confused and think Kim Jong-il will be presenting the trophies?
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There is no country in the world called "Korea".

C.
 
I said this earlier.

https://www.gtplanet.net/forum/showpost.php?p=3528498&postcount=39


I know what some of you think of 90 Degree corners, but they creat better passing opportunities than a high speed flowing track.
You set up someone to make a pass by making them use less track on the way in,(being on the outside) so they must compromise their exit and in the following straight a passing opportunity arises. LOGIC. It also is harder on the engine and drive components as the acceleration is far more aggressiv. With a couple of chicanes a great circuit is created. eg; Gold Coast.
 
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yeti
There is no country in the world called "Korea".

C.
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Like how there is no country called "America"? I don't think there's a need to correct people as its fairly obvious which one we mean, and if it isn't (like if we were discussing Korean politics) then we would say so.
 
Question: when you talk about "Korea" in the context of having a Grand Prix, what are the odds that you're talking about the North?

Answer: about one in a very large number.
 
Minor change for next season: Monaco has been brought forward a week from the 23rd of May to the 16th to allow teams time to get to Istanbul without turning it into a flyaway event.
 
There isn't a country called Abu Dhabi, Pescara, Dallas, Detroit, Ceasar's Palace, United States West or Europe, but they have all had Grand Prix's named after them.
 
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There isn't a country called Abu Dhabi, Pescara, Dallas, Detroit, Ceasar's Palace, United States West or Europe, but they have all had Grand Prix's named after them.
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It's because several countries have more than one decent circuit, so it's renamed as an excuse to use the other circuits. But I must say that the Luxembourg Grand Prix was the most pointless thing known to man!
 
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There isn't a country called Abu Dhabi, Pescara, Dallas, Detroit, Ceasar's Palace, United States West or Europe, but they have all had Grand Prix's named after them.
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So? What does that have to do with next seasons calendar?
 
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Minor change for next season: Monaco has been brought forward a week from the 23rd of May to the 16th to allow teams time to get to Istanbul without turning it into a flyaway event.
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Wow - isn't this a massive deal - hasn't Monaco been held on the same weekend for 50 odd years??!?!

C.
 
PeterJB
But I must say that the Luxembourg Grand Prix was the most pointless thing known to man!
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That was done as a way of giving Germany a second Grand Prix when the European GP was at Jerez.
 
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That was done as a way of giving Germany a second Grand Prix when the European GP was at Jerez.
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Well that makes sense in 1997, but there wasn't a European Grand Prix in 1998, and someone said something about Korea, I don't remember why I brought that up, but something to do with Korea.
 
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Well that makes sense in 1997, but there wasn't a European Grand Prix in 1998, and someone said something about Korea, I don't remember why I brought that up, but something to do with Korea.
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Korea originally intended to have a Grand Prix in the late 1990s and a contract was signed with FOM. But the circuit never eventuated, and Bernie Ecclestone sued the pants off them - can't blame him, really - to make an example to other organisations who were looking to start their own races. Jerez was originally slated to host the European race in 1998, but there was an incident on the podium in 1997: the mayor presented a trophy that was suposed to be presented by a representative of Daimler-Benz. The circuit was banned from hosting Grands Prix, but I should think the organisers were still hanging on to the title of European Grand Prix, because the infamous 1997 race was the last on the calendar. Rather than fight it, FOM had the Nurburgring as the Luxembourg Grand Prix for 1998 because the rights to the European Grand Prix probably would have defaulted after the end of that season or if a venue failed to host an event.
 
yeti
Why does Spain get 2 GP's
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Italy and Germany have also had 2 GP's for most of the past decades... be it Monza and San Marino, or Hockenheim and the Nurburgring. I'd personally just drop the "European" Grand Prix altogether, and rather see them go back to Estoril... or even Buenos Aires.
 
I did post that quite a long time ago... - My new post was about South Korea...

C.
 
yeti
My new post was about South Korea...
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Could you be a little bit more descriptive? What exactly are you trying to say about the South Korean GP?
 
Jackington
Could you be a little bit more descriptive? What exactly are you trying to say about the South Korean GP?
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Try clicking the link...

It's the proposed layout of it...

Seemed like this was a good place for it - didn't see it posted anywhere else.

C.
 
The circuit layout was unveiled quite a while back now, there's a bit of information in this thread.
 
Ah - missed that thread!

Cheers,

C.
 
-Fred-
Italy and Germany have also had 2 GP's for most of the past decades... be it Monza and San Marino, or Hockenheim and the Nurburgring. I'd personally just drop the "European" Grand Prix altogether, and rather see them go back to Estoril... or even Buenos Aires.
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The Spaniards get a second race because it's intended to capitalise on the popularity of Fernando Alonso. The same logic ws used to give Germany two races when Michal Schumacher was the reigning Champion.

yeti
It's the proposed layout of it...
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Not proposed. Confirmed.
 
Yet Blighty struggles to have 1 GP in it's country - despite having the last 2 Champions?! (And always having massive support from the populace)

Methinks the logic falls down somewhere...

C.
 
yeti
Yet Blighty struggles to have 1 GP in it's country - despite having the last 2 Champions?! (And always having massive support from the populace)

Methinks the logic falls down somewhere...

C.
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Blame the BDRC.

Bernie Ecclestone might be a tyrant, but when the British Grand Prix was on the line, he made it known that he was more than willing to deal with the organisers. He made them an offer, and he told them that they alone could save the event they set so much store in - and they still complained about it. Ecclestone has gone on the record to say that the only reason he gave them a better deal than originally offered was because he'd had enough of their complaining.
 
Good - it's not all about money - it should be about racing... and the fans...

Why are we racing in Turkey? - Cos of Money... no Fans.

C.
 
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