Motor Racing On Our Streets

[mikey4444]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-28261960

Aren't out towns and cities polluted enough ! Daft idea. I wonder if it was from the same Government Dept. that thought it was a good idea to use the hard shoulder on our Motorways as an extra lane ?

[Bazile]

Whether you held these races at dedictaed circuits or on the streets would make no difference , with respect to pollution .

Afterall pollution doesn't stay within the boundaries of a circuit - does it ?

[Baldric]

I wonder if it had been 'Wallace' who mentioned it it would have got the same level of disapproval?
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[EDDIE51]

It will cause no more pollution than if it was held outside a town or city on a track. Our cities are less polluted now than they have been for 100s of years due to the rules on smokeless zones, compulsory catalytic converters particulate and NOX filters. The latest diesel engines for example are 'cleaner ' than any petrol engine.

[naomi24]

I like the idea. Monte Carlo does it brilliantly.

[Frank97]

F1 over potholes, suppose it would add another dimension to the sport.

[heathfield]

'It will cause no more pollution than if it was held outside a town or city on a track'. Yeah, but if I'm in a city doing my shopping while racing is on, I'd be breathing that pollution.

[mikey4444]

Actually Franky, if it meant that all the pot holes were dealt with, using some of that money I keep paying each year in car-based taxes, I might be more keen on the idea.

[Frank97]

True, I was surprised that they managed to find 300 miles of pothole free roads for the Tour de France to ride on.

[mikey4444]

According to my mate who lives in Wakefield, it must have been a miracle, as the flipping potholes were back the following day !

[New Judge]

Actually, Mikey if they closed, say, central London for three days (as they do in Monaco) and only allowed racing cars to take to the streets for a few hours the level of pollution would fall drastically.

I have to agree that the conversion of motorway hard shoulders to live lanes is a disaster waiting to happen. All it needs is a major pile some distance from a junction which needs the attendance of police, Fire & Rescue and paramedics and the outcome will be tragic. I was on the newly converted stretch of the M25 a week or so ago when I came across stationary traffic caused by a collision about half a mile up the road. The incident needed paramedics and I heard an ambulance and a police car bullying their way through the four stationary lanes for about fifteen minutes. They took another ten to reach the scene. Vehicles stuck in such circumstances simply have nowhere to move to. When I finally managed to pass the scene of the accident it seemed that no serious injuries had been sustained, but that was more luck than judgement. An F1 race around London's West End would present far less of a risk.

[Canary42]

////pollution doesn't stay within the boundaries of a circuit - does it ?////

Noise pollution tends to be fairly local to the "circuit"

[tonyav]

Shouldn't be any pollution or noise from these.
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[anotheoldgit]

Much more dangerous than running away from bulls in Spain.

[hc4361]

We had the Superprix in Birmingham for four years in the 1980s. Don't know why they stopped it

[tonyav]

Yeah, I remember the superprix, can't remember why they were stopped though.