Re: JPM to McLaren for 05

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Betts
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Sun, 23 Nov 2003 13:02:26 GMT, Mike Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> wrote:
> 
> >In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, David Betts
> ><[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >
> >> Sorry, but neither of those responses make a lot of sense to me. The
> >> Australian GP is the biggest and most important race in Australia for
> >> that year. 
> >
> >Out of curiousity, how do you know that, and what criteria are you
> >basing it on?
> 
> That's it is an FIA-sanctioned Grand Prix for F1 cars, of course.
> Australia's most important domestic series is for V8 tin-top
> dinosaurs. Very entertaining and they race on some exciting tracks,
> but hardly rocket science <g>. 

Yebbut that's what I was getting at, the Bathurst is (probably) the
biggest and most important race to Australians. Or maybe WSB or MotoGP
might be, as one had an Australian champion a couple of years ago and
the other has got that champion currently riding in it, plus another
Aussie, and Mick Doohan used to be in it...

> Only one of those races has any
> international status or interest. They don't have a worthwhile big
> single-seater series any more, although they used to.

That's the perspective of the outsider though, isn't it? I don't know
which of the races is the most important to Aussies.

-- 
Mike Fleming