London Grand Prix Lap

Zagato

Can't see a thread on this yet. Santander have commissioned a circuit layout for a London Grand Prix and created a video of it being lapped.

Video with introduction from McLaren drivers can be found here

PJTierney

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDb4oi43AEA

Looks familiar...

De Hipster

Hitting objections already:

But green campaigners, business leaders and taxi drivers raised concerns about the plan, while Westminster Council, which would be responsible for the track, said it had not been consulted.

Motor sport insiders insisted it was little more than a pipe dream long-held by Mr Ecclestone. Experts pointed out that the route took in Admiralty Arch and that its three single-lane arches made it impossible for motor racing.

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London Mayor Boris Johnson said he would need to be convinced of the economic case for the event, which comes amid trepidation over city-wide disruption during the Olympics. "I am broadly positive providing we can satisfy the air quality and noise issues," he said.

Backers claimed the event could net £100m for the London economy and be watched by 120,000 spectators. But Robert Davis, deputy leader of Westminster City Council, said the announcement had come out of the blue. "This is an event that would have obvious benefits to London in terms of finance and profile – but the council will wish to also put forward any concerns we receive from residents," he said.

Darren Johnson, London Assembly member for the Green Party, urged the Mayor to veto the "crazy" plan.

Read more: Belfast Telegraph Article

Grim.

Funny that Bernie announced this the day after one of his business partners was sent down for bribery....

Myrddin

Green campaigners weren't consulted? Shock horror.

Surely the drop in traffic on the London streets for the weekend would more than offset the emissions from the race? And the emissions from the race would only be happening elsewhere anyway. :P

Myrddin

Deleted User wrote: »

Surely the drop in traffic on the London streets for the weekend would more than offset the emissions from the race? And the emissions from the race would only be happening elsewhere anyway. :P

Oh but you know, those big evil race cars run by those big conglomerate teams will cause so much carbon that it will be so harmful to the environment. Nothing about the planes these campaigners take for their holidays though...

EnterNow

EnterNow wrote: »

Oh but you know, those big evil race cars run by those big conglomerate teams will cause so much carbon that it will be so harmful to the environment. Nothing about the planes these campaigners take for their holidays though...

Quit spouting rubbish, everyone knows Al Gore's plane is fueled by his tears.

ScumLord

The archway looks plain dangerous for a F1 race. I don't see how they could realistically stop the centre of London for that many days, some pretty major streets in there.

ScumLord

ScumLord wrote: »

The archway looks plain dangerous for a F1 race. I don't see how they could realistically stop the centre of London for that many days, some pretty major streets in there.

No way they could put them through the Archway without a chicane before it and be prepared for plenty of red flags. :pac: In my limited experience of London there's a fair amount of streets that don't seem critical to traffic flow. On the other hand they're important in pedestrian terms so could affect business quite a lot. I'm no expert obviously :P

Myrddin

Deleted User wrote: »

Quit spouting rubbish, everyone knows Al Gore's plane is fueled by his tears.

An inconvenient truth for sure

Zagato

PJTierney wrote: »

Looks familiar...

Exactly!

The only one I ever played was the original PGR (as I switched to Forza) and I thought the same, I seem to remember driving through that arch too (though it must be 8yrs or so since I played it)

PJTierney

Most of the PGR crew's either working at Turn 10 or Playground Games now, so they've been doing bits in Forza/Horizon that you might recognise.

Myrddin

LIGHTNING wrote: »

The 4th one is one of the best racing games I have every played, to this day no other even proper PC sim`s has done standing water as well as PGR4.

Really? Must give it a blast

LIGHTNING

LIGHTNING wrote: »

The 4th one is one of the best racing games I have every played, to this day no other even proper PC sim`s has done standing water as well as PGR4.

Despite its arcadey-ness it was always great to hit Nurburgring or St. Petersburg after a downpour :pac:

Stay out of the Ariel Atom or any other "open-wheel" car if ya know there's rain.

De Hipster

EnterNow wrote: »

Green campaigners weren't consulted? Shock horror.

...and the local authority - thats all!

Myrddin

De Hipster wrote: »

...and the local authority - thats all!

Boris Johnson? He'd be well game for it, it's only being touted at this stage...it's not as if they're setting up the grandstands just yet. Besides, it puts F1 back in the news just talking about it

PJTierney

I'm sure it's just a coincidence that it was announced at roughly the same time that Gribowsky was jailed for the Bernie bribe

Cookie_Monster

Watching Cars 2 last night, can't help thinking that where they stole this idea from