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Circuit of The Americas today announced that it has been declared ready to host the 2012 F1 United States GP by Charlie Whiting, who directs racing, safety and technical matters for the FIA. Whiting visited the Central Texas racing circuit as part of a scheduled pre-race inspection and approved the circuit for “Grade 1” status, hence appropriate to host an F1 race.
Perhaps the good commissioners would have liked to go themselves, rather than sending some hickeyville fire-officer and county-sheriff to make fools of themselves in the big city where they talk so funny and drive on the wrong side of the road?hairy_scotsman wrote: ...
Travis County Commissioners vote down employee trip to British GP:
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xpensive wrote:Perhaps the good commissioners would have liked to go themselves, rather than sending some hickeyville fire-officer and county-sheriff to make fools of themselves in the big city where they talk so funny and drive on the wrong side of the road?hairy_scotsman wrote: ...
Travis County Commissioners vote down employee trip to British GP:
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I'm kinda suspecting you've never been anywhere near the southern US and get all of your information from sources that play trucks in animated movies.xpensive wrote:I was kinda suspecting them Cota-folks planning on staying in London (UK) and go to Silverstone by one of them choppers?
Circuit of the Americas approached Leffingwell and Ott about a month ago with the offer to fly two city officials to London to see the British Grand Prix at Silverstone, a permanent track in the English countryside. Last week, Leffingwell accepted one of the trips, and Ott accepted the other. Ott also decided to send (Austin Police Chief) Acevedo and (Austin Fire Chief) Kerr as well as Sue Edwards, the assistant city manager for development services, and Rodney Gonzales, the deputy director of economic growth and redevelopment services.
Leffingwell's and Ott's flights and lodging will be paid for by Circuit of the Americas, a circuit spokeswoman said, and the city will pay for the other four trips. Officials did not know how much the trip would cost, but a search of travel websites found that airfare and lodging in London for five days could be about $2,000 per person.
"The intent is for (Austin officials) to go and see how others do a job they're going to do in Austin in November ... and learn from some very experienced people what it is that they need to do to make sure they run a successful event in Austin," said Julie Loignon, a spokeswoman for Circuit of the Americas.
Loignon said Silverstone representatives have arranged for the Austin contingent to meet with their counterparts in the track's nearby county of Northamptonshire. Silverstone is similar to the F1 track near Elroy, as both are permanent tracks in somewhat rural areas, Loignon said.
On Tuesday, Travis County commissioners nixed a similar trip for two staff members that would have been primarily paid for by race organizers. The offer made to Austin was never discussed by the City Council.
While the track is not within Austin's city limits, the city said it will be closely involved and affected by the estimated 120,000 attendees for the race weekend Nov. 16 to 18.
The majority of those people will stay in Austin, city spokeswoman Roxanne Evans said. "All city public safety agencies will be engaged during the event," she said.
hairy_scotsman wrote:F1 officials to pay for mayor, city manager to travel to London race; city to pay for 4 more
http://www.statesman.com/news/local/f1- ... 05570.html
...xpensive wrote:Perhaps the good commissioners would have liked to go themselves, rather than sending some...hairy_scotsman wrote: ...
Travis County Commissioners vote down employee trip to British GP:
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probably will be taken as 2 though, 2nd and last perhaps.
"Officials did not know how much the trip would cost, but a search of travel websites found that airfare and lodging in London for five days could be about $2,000 per person."strad wrote:Any reason for a junket X...