Re: JPM to McLaren for 05

Mike Fleming <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 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.

Similarly, it would be very difficult to defend the proposition that
the USGP is "the biggest and most important" auto race of the year to
folks in the US.

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