2017 F1 Race at Lime Rock!

[Pe7e]

I'm really busy today, but this news from the management at Lime Rock Park is so important that I felt I needed to take the time to post it:

 

Ecclestone Greenlights 2017 F1 Race at Lime Rock

 

ASKWITH, U.K. (March 32) – In a surprise announcement, F1 major domo Bernie Ecclestone told reporters that he’s made a deal with Lime Rock Park owner Skip Barber to bring the Formula 1 circus to Connecticut’s 1.5-mile, 9-turn road course, starting in 2017. A date has not been set, and the F.I.A. World Council must still approve the expanded schedule, “But that’s simply a formality,” Ecclestone said.

“I met Skip in Monaco back in the mid-70s, when I was running Brabham and Max [Mosely] was trying to stick Skip into that crap-can March,” Ecclestone said. “When I heard from one of my many minions that America’s New England region didn’t have an F1 race, well, I was shocked. So I rang up Skip."

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Ecclestone (l.) and Barber met secretly at Lime Rock Park in 2012.

Photo: “Photos by Kimi. Because I know what to do”

 

Ecclestone, who had gathered 241 racing reporters around his feet inside his quaint $650 million cabin in Askwith, Worchestershire-on-Gloucestershire-no-thanks-to-Shropshire, England, also revealed that Formula One Management will not charge Lime Rock Park the normal one-year rights fee of $21 billion. “Instead, Skip’s going to buy me dinner at Mizza’s Pizza – and he has to change the oil in one of my Range Rovers,” Ecclestone said.

On the other side of the Atlantic, Barber said, “As much as I would like an F1 race at Lime Rock, my handshake agreement with Bernie does not include an oil change. We’re still negotiating. I think rotating the Hankooks on his Wolseley 16/60 is sufficient, really.”

Because of this ground-breakingly different business case, Barber said he will set ticket prices accordingly.

“I’m thinking $12.50, plus the 10% Connecticut Amusement-Admission Tax, for a three-day pass,” Barber said.

Ecclestone was quoted further as saying, “I am also very excited to bring my 75-meter motorhome, Helga’s Revenge, to the infamous Lime Rock infield camping area for the Formula One race. I personally love the painfully passé ‘No Fear’ bumper stickers you see on the campers. I mean, literally, they’re stuck to their arses. As well, the plush pigs along the camping area’s roadsides really do make me feel at home. Well, at least one or two of them.”

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[blubarisax]

I'll believe it when I see it!

[coffee break]

Check "Current Conditions" @ bottom of page.

 

http://www.limerock.com/

[coffee break]

I hope it's on the original circuit so we can get back to airborne F1 again.

[blubarisax]

April Fools!

Edited April 1, 2013 by blubarisax

[Kitcat]

It looks totally legit! And I heard that some of the F1 teams have actually started a bidding war for Blubarisax to serve as coach for their drivers since he is a track savey Lime Rocker (apparently he has finally figured out how not to get big air over that one uphill turn and not land in the tire wall!).

[Canadian 7]

They need to something in F1 to make it exciting again. Man has it ever been boring for the last few years.

[Boxologist]

It's been better the last few years. Last year was the first year I could more than a few races in well over a decade.

[blubarisax]

It looks totally legit! And I heard that some of the F1 teams have actually started a bidding war for Blubarisax to serve as coach for their drivers since he is a track savey Lime Rocker (apparently he has finally figured out how not to get big air over that one uphill turn and not land in the tire wall!).

 

Tire walls make good spectator sports. With the right wings, they could skip the whole Back Straight.

[DeanG]

This is great! I always wanted to riot in the mud at Lime Rock during a F1 race. We need to start a Se7en USA gang then go beat up some Mercedes & Ferrari pukes.

[S1Steve]

This is great! I always wanted to riot in the mud at Lime Rock during a F1 race. We need to start a Se7en USA gang then go beat up some Mercedes & Ferrari pukes.

 

Let's see, 1978, Watkins Glen for the F1 race. In the Bog, National Guard, tear gas.

 

Is that what you are talking about, were you the guy I bought the weed from.....LOL

 

Yes I was and still am one of those Ferrari pukes......