Happi Monday wrote
Racing has to adjust. ALMS is adjusting, the've merged the P1 and P2 classes.

And don't forget. In the days of yore, the privateers were substantial, not the
high end manufacturers. But we were laughing at McDonald's stupid remarks
recently, and this time he's hit the nail on the head.

One thing is certain. In all the times I've been a fan of it. When economic
troubles happen, racing is the first to suffer. But how it gets taken care of
is always up to the imagination. In the recession days of the early 1990's,
Bernie allowed anyone and everyone into F1. The 1991 Canadian Grand Prix had
36 or so participants, and pre-qualifying to get the field down to 26.

And that was a "travel" race in North America.


Bernie later decided that there was a $40 million dollar fee to keep the rabble
out.

Hmm. Campos was one of the drivers in those days! For the ones who didn't pre-
qualify! Now he's got a team!

Yay!

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<c05f46d9-5257-4eee-9281-8da764e25fa2 (AT) a39g2000pre (DOT) googlegroups.com>,
build <buildy (AT) gmail (DOT) com> writes
Thank you for admitting what your posts already indicate: that you don't
actually watch the races.

I thought last year was a bit better, but each of the last three
individually has had more excitement than the previous six had in total.
--
Richard Miller

Yadda wrote:

Time to lay in the water rice and gold...

on 11/6/09 4:45 PM News said the following:
will be Option ARMs, Commercial Real Estate, and Leveraged Commodity and
Carry Trade. Probably not until early next year as the FED/Treasury
will be propping up the economy on funny money until the moment of
reckoning. I am wondering if money market funds will be safe in this
forthcoming storm...

build wrote
Perhaps, but that doesn't infer that 2010 will be all that good.

And that is what the writer was saying.

His remarks about Brawn's loss of the Honda "subsidy", how they're in search of
a title sponsor in bad economic times (and Virgin payed squat anyway) will be
change agents for them in 2010. I enjoyed the first 5 or so races this
season, and F1 over all has enjoyed close finishes DWC-wise for quite a while
now. Every season ender, or next-to season ender has been right down to the
wire. This year was one of the few in some time that was predictable.

But as McDonald said in his write-up, there is a lot of poison in the air and
the heath of the "once invincible and untouchable" series is shaky.

I'm a huge fan, and I've attended Montreal and other F1 races for 4 decades now,
but I'm not even sure if I fancy hitting Montreal next summer. There's a lot
of other racing that I haven't seen and would like to. An overpriced, under
delivering fiasco, coupled with high priced tickets and hotel rooms and so on,
just doesn't kick it for me as it used to.

on 11/7/09 6:14 AM News said the following:
I am sure they have fixed the gold market too to screw you and me.

Yadda wrote:

There's always rice and water....

Yadda wrote:
You would have to try hard to have been screwed investing in gold. It's up
45% since November last year.

--
Chad

Chad wrote:

Want some now? That was the question.

Not Me wrote:
Well I wouldn't put all my money into gold today, or at anytime, but I don't
think "they have fixed the gold market too to screw you and me".

If you drop into your local gold dealer and pick up a 5 gram ingot every
Friday for the next year, I'd be surprised if you didn't end up a lot better
off than saving the equivalent GBP100 every week in a bank account.

--
Chad