F1... In Ireland... Next Year!!!!

Beta Ray Bill

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/breaking/2011/0821/breaking4.html

Formula One cars will be racing on the streets of Dublin next year in an event which is expected to bring more than a quarter of a million people into the city.

City racing featuring the F1 cars already takes place in Moscow and Rotterdam and today, Bavaria Beer, the event organisers and main sponsors, announced they were adding Dublin to the roster.

The day-long demo will take place on June 3rd next year and the organisers expressed confidence that it would prove to be a significant boost to the local economy and would showcase some of the city's key landmarks to a global audience.

The demonstration race track will start at the Central Bank before passing Trinity College and going down Burgh Quay and crossing the Samuel Beckett bridge. The track ends on Custom House Quay.

City racing, featuring the high powered Formula 1 cars, first took place in 2006 and today close to half a million people turned out in Rotterdam for the event.

'It has been 16 years since Ireland witnessed the excitement of a current F1 car but Bavaria City Racing is about to change that,' said the managing director of the event Gavin Collins.

He praised Dublin City Council and the gardai for the manner in which they embraced the concept and said the track had been specially designed to showcase some of the city's oldest and most modern sites, including Trinity, the Bank of Ireland on College Green, the Custom House and the Convention Centre.

While tickets will be on sale for some sections of the course from tomorrow, 96 per cent of it will be free to spectators, Mr Collins said. Cars from all the main F1 teams will take part and while there will be no competitive edge to the racing he said it would give an Irish audience a real feel for the high octane experience.

Former Formula One boss Eddie Jordan said he was looking forward to bringing the event to Dublin.

“It’s not really feasible for Dublin to consider hosting a full Formula One race. It would place an unfair burden on the taxpayer.”

However, an event like this would give people a real flavour of what Formula One is like,” he said.

“And the great thing about it is, it’s almost entirely free which makes it accessible to everybody.”

In addition to Formula One racing demonstration there will also be stunt car racing and other classes of motor racing vehicles on display.

But the best bit of all is that they will have to fix all the roads that the F1 cars will be going on!

YAAAAAYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Plug

Wait a sec is this the real deal so, not some mickey mouse effert?:eek:
Never mind:(
Sweet Jesus just think of Jesinta and Decko 'wood yiz look at da speed o da yoke'.

Big Nasty

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbfaOMjOYtc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXBMPxX2C2Y

Owen

These cars will be going far too fast for the city centre. Obviously, no one has thought of the children here.

Big Nasty

Owen wrote: »

These cars will be going far too fast for the city centre. Obviously, no one has thought of the children here.

There'll be tractor units too!

Voodoomelon

Anyone speak Russian? What does he shout out at 2:25 in that second video? :P

antodeco

I'm surprised the government didn't try and make them go via the eastlink!

exador

MCMLXXV wrote: »

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hbfaOMjOYtc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXBMPxX2C2Y

enjoyed that ! Nothing you wouldn't see every weekend in the industrial estates with the local boyz gathering in their glanza's ! LOL ..

dr.fuzzenstein

Owen wrote: »

These cars will be going far too fast for the city centre. Obviously, no one has thought of the children here.

Don't worry, I'm sure the "Safe-e-ty Cameras" will be out in force!
And the Gards will pull them over for excessive noise from the exhaust.
(Is this yourr mechhanicallly prrropelllled veeaaahicle?)

mytime

Slightly off topic but can anyone suggest a nice hotel with a good location for the weekend?

Mar4ix

mytime wrote: »

Slightly off topic but can anyone suggest a nice hotel with a good location for the weekend?

check www.hotels.com

Diagonally

mytime wrote: »

Slightly off topic but can anyone suggest a nice hotel with a good location for the weekend?

Clarion Hotel IFSC? Never stayed there but if the track goes straight down the quay from the Samuel Beckett Bridge to the custom house, it'll pass right by the hotel.

Gumbo

Diagonally wrote: »

Clarion Hotel IFSC? Never stayed there but if the track goes straight down the quay from the Samuel Beckett Bridge to the custom house, it'll pass right by the hotel.

i'd say you would want to book early too, to avoid inflated prices and booked out status too.

dharn

Wah Hay something good to look forward to

Northern Monkey

Jurys custom house will be looking right on to the track

TestTransmission

kceire wrote: »

i'd say you would want to book early too, to avoid inflated prices and booked out status too.

Anywhere half decent/not expensive is gone now at this stage!

MugMugs

What about the 30kph limit? Will they have to hammer on the brakes and crawl like the rest of us?

Cill Dara Abu

This is only an exhibition not an actual F1 Championship race.

Loada sh1t.

Hotwheels

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

This is only an exhibition not an actual F1 Championship race.

Loada sh1t.

Maybe only an exhibition, but will still give people a chance to see a F1 flying along the street...and the glorious sound that follows...:)

As an aside: The final round of the Irish Hillclimb championship will be in Knockalla Donegal Sept 3&4. If you can go along and see some of the fastest machinery in Ireland go head-to-head on this wonderful hill...

13spanner

Right in the middle of my Leaving Cert. I bet the weather will be brilliant too :mad:

Creamy Goodness

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

This is only an exhibition not an actual F1 Championship race.

Loada sh1t.

so you seriously think the F1 parade would come here for a proper race through Dublin of all places?

wow, mind boggles.

Cill Dara Abu

Creamy Goodness wrote: »

so you seriously think the F1 parade would come here for a proper race through Dublin of all places?

wow, mind boggles.

Where did I say I thought an actual F1 race would come to Dublin?

And they do it through the streets of Monaco so why not Dublin?

Hal1

I can visualise DCC laying down a F1 approved type scalectirx track for them to use for the event. Once it's done they just take it back up :pac:, it could happen .

TestTransmission

Cill Dara Abu wrote: »

And they do it through the streets of Monaco so why not Dublin?

Monaco =



Also,they've got the cash to put it on ,we don't.

Beta Ray Bill

TestTransmission wrote: »

Monaco =



Also,they've got the cash to put it on ,we don't.

Dublin:



Might wanna make sure those F1 Cars are alarmed and have an immobilizer fitted :rolleyes:

bijapos

Owen wrote: »

These cars will be going far too fast for the city centre. Obviously, no one has thought of the children here.

Talk to Joe on 1850 715 815.........children, boy racers, noise, roads blocked....... that twat covers everything.


BTW bring earplugs everybody, the noise off a F1 car has to be heard to be believed.

dobsdave

Think of all the VRT money

MugMugs

dobsdave wrote: »

Think of all the VRT money

Wonder if they will fill in that overpriced Topaz on the quays.

MagicMarker

Surely the roads aren't good enough for F1 cars?

MugMugs

MagicMarker wrote: »

Surely the roads aren't good enough for F1 cars?

Q DCC out and about filling the canyons we currently negotiate. Can't get over the state of some city centre roads. Drove to swords via Hatch street from the match in Donnybrook last week. I live in the sticks and our roads are better than the capital? Go figure!

shedweller

“It’s not really feasible for Dublin to consider hosting a full Formula One race. It would place an unfair burden on the taxpayer.”

:pac::pac::pac:

It would be what percentage of our national debt???:pac:

Beta Ray Bill

shedweller wrote: »

:pac::pac::pac:

It would be what percentage of our national debt???:pac:

I'd say 0.28%

magunkey

Hope I don't get stuck behind this pair.

Wouldn't get to see a thing....