It would be a real shame if we didn't have a British GP.  As other posters have said, there is a long tradition of motor racing here, and a lot of jobs here come from it.  I'd like to see it happen every year.

But, having said that, I hope that Silverstone doesn't accept Bernie's contract offer, if it means years of debt for them.  Donington couldn't get the investment they needed, how would Silverstone do any better?  Bernie wants an annual automatic 7% increase; they can't count on having that sort of increase in business for the next 17 years.  They could finish up in a few years, crippled by debt and having to sell off the newly tarted-up track.

pedekay:

It would be a real shame if we didn't have a British GP.  As other posters have said, there is a long tradition of motor racing here, and a lot of jobs here come from it.  I'd like to see it happen every year.

But, having said that, I hope that Silverstone doesn't accept Bernie's contract offer, if it means years of debt for them.  Donington couldn't get the investment they needed, how would Silverstone do any better?  Bernie wants an annual automatic 7% increase; they can't count on having that sort of increase in business for the next 17 years.  They could finish up in a few years, crippled by debt and having to sell off the newly tarted-up track.

The greed is sickening isn't it? Go on the official F1 site and the only interaction you can get with the organisers is with regards to buying something. They have no interest in anything else from us.

It's that Wax freak that created this whole problem...

He gave 100 years of rights to CVC, who want billions out of F1.... the fans ultimately pay for Wax's mistakes...

The tracks could all be financially feasible if there wasn't this huge financial hole to fill, created by the poor management team at the FIA...

Mr.Woody:

These figures are taken from F1Fanatic, based on the 2008 season.

 The opening round of 2008 drew just shy of 400 million viewers, if EVERYONE (nevermind the average is around 3 million) in the UK watched F1 (60,000,000) and suddenly stopped watching to "boycott" F1, that would still be 340 million people and a hell of a lot of money for Bernie and CVC.

Judging by those figures, is the UK really that important to F1?

 Source for figures: http://www.f1fanatic.co.uk/2008/10/06/uk-f1-tv-figures-up-by-half-a-million/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Kingdom 

Probably not.

As the global audience becomes younger they will care less and less about the History of the Sport. Ask an average viewer where the first Grand Prix was staged and they wouldn’t waste their breath with an answer.

It would hurt the Local economy, the Motor racing Industry, British Motorsport as a whole and of course us the British Fans who make their annual pilgrimage to the “Home of British Motorsport” thick and thin.

mikhailv:

In my opinion it would affect the tracks more than us.

 Id love to goto watch F1, but I wouldnt pay the prices at silverstone. its not worth it and its damn right shabby.

You can go on about the heritage ***, but screw heritage when it means my disabled father can barely get up the *** hills and ramps which are 50 years old and steeper than everest.

Its just a generally poor facility for the fans, and I refuse to contemplate spending 150 basic ticket for that. i was looking forward to donnington, id save an extra hundred EASILY for the pleasure of on site parking that isnt 6 million miles away on a gravel and dust ''field'' with a wheelchair.

So no, I watch it on television, the internet, read about it in magazines and the net. Why would britain miss the GP? How many of us actually go there and shed the waste of money for the poor facilities just to get a glimpse of the car and then watch it on a badly shown projected screen on the other side of the track which is barely legible in Rain or bright sun.

 I love going to the world series, even though it still has the complete and utter pains, but being free means youd expect that.

So no, it wouldnt be bad for F1, 90% of us watch it on TV anyway, the 10% who moan, i bet 2% only go and watch GP's.

i for one, would preferable goto bahrain, Sakhir or Spa. My favourite tracks that id like to goto myself one day.

Although I accept some of your comments, can I ask you when you last visited Silverstone and to what event?

mikhailv:

In my opinion it would affect the tracks more than us.

 Id love to goto watch F1, but I wouldnt pay the prices at silverstone. its not worth it and its damn right shabby.

You can go on about the heritage ***, but screw heritage when it means my disabled father can barely get up the *** hills and ramps which are 50 years old and steeper than everest.

Its just a generally poor facility for the fans, and I refuse to contemplate spending 150 basic ticket for that. i was looking forward to donnington, id save an extra hundred EASILY for the pleasure of on site parking that isnt 6 million miles away on a gravel and dust ''field'' with a wheelchair.

So no, I watch it on television, the internet, read about it in magazines and the net. Why would britain miss the GP? How many of us actually go there and shed the waste of money for the poor facilities just to get a glimpse of the car and then watch it on a badly shown projected screen on the other side of the track which is barely legible in Rain or bright sun.

 I love going to the world series, even though it still has the complete and utter pains, but being free means youd expect that.

So no, it wouldnt be bad for F1, 90% of us watch it on TV anyway, the 10% who moan, i bet 2% only go and watch GP's.

i for one, would preferable goto bahrain, Sakhir or Spa. My favourite tracks that id like to goto myself one day.

Some good points Mikhail.  The only thing that I would personally worry about is what would replace the British GP on the calendar.  If they were to replace it by reintroducing one of the traditional tracks onto the calendar, then I wouldn't mind a bit.  More than likely though given the current climate we'd get yet another boring street circuit. If that were to be the case, then I'd rather keep Silverstone.

On a side note, when you say that you would like to go to Bahrain, Sakhir or Spa....you do realise that Sakhir is Bahrain right?  Did you mean Sepang or was it just the way that you worded it?  Just curious as I'm looking into going over for the Malaysian GP next year, so would be able to give you some info.