We started the Nurburgring Petition on 1st January 2011 and in 1 month we have achieved over 13,000 e-signatures.
Great going. I would personally like to thank everyone who has signed, but we still need more, so if you havnt signed please click here
Monday 31 January 2011
Sunday 30 January 2011
SWR German TV Report on Nurburgring Troubles
A German TV crew have made a documentry on the current problems at the Nurburgring.
This brings home the true issuies at stake. The link has been supplied by a good friend Mike Frison, who is the originator for Save The Ring Campaign
Support from Ari Vatanen.
Ari Vatanen - Rallye World Champion 1981 and Member of the European Parliament 1999 - 2009 - supports the Save The Ring initiative, signer #11849:
His words say it all about this place
Nurburgring is absolutely unique racetrack and it's part of not only motor sport heritage but part of German history! I still remember how I was scared (yes, I can be scared!) in that steep down hill on the circuit and how my respect of F1 drivers went up by coefficients 10!
I had heard already about that massive spending, during my years in Bruxelles I saw how public money is wasted in an irresponsible manner!
Many thanks for that great support.
His words say it all about this place
Nurburgring is absolutely unique racetrack and it's part of not only motor sport heritage but part of German history! I still remember how I was scared (yes, I can be scared!) in that steep down hill on the circuit and how my respect of F1 drivers went up by coefficients 10!
I had heard already about that massive spending, during my years in Bruxelles I saw how public money is wasted in an irresponsible manner!
Many thanks for that great support.
Saturday 29 January 2011
Pistonheads: Has the Nürburgring as we know (and love) it become a lost cause?
Dan Trent over at Pistonheads published a brilliant article on the Nurburgring and Save The Ring situation. He even stopped by to have a look himself. PH has a great audience and many Ring visitors in their community, so don't miss the comments. Great work Dan!
Secret 33 Millions additional Ring-Loan
Despite the massive loan of 330 Million Euros plus an additional 40 Million to cover debts of the original Nürburgring GmbH, an extra 33 Million loan has made the headlines today.
330 + 40 + 33 ... we are officially at 403 Million Euros now, which sits on the shoulders of Nürburgring GmbH. That´s heavy!
Only revealed by the ´Rheinpfalz´ newspaper today, the Rhineland-Palatinate Minister of Economic Affairs - ´Hendrik Hering´ - had to admit the additional need for money. The officially confirmed 33 Millions are estimated even as 50 - 80 Millions by the newspaper reports.
The funny bit is that Hering still describes this as success, because the damage could have been higher.
The speed of this disastrous development is impressive, they only needed 3 years to spend (waste!) this amount. Imagine how many race tracks you could create for 400 Million!
Nurburgring Needs Help
Ok so the Ring is in trouble, so whats happened you ask?
From 2007 - 2009 the German government built a huge Leisure Park at the Nürburgring. It is based on fake visitor numbers, over sized and badly executed. Most of the time it is an empty ghost town. Once promised as private investment, it is now based on a debt of 400+ million EUR public money.
Instead of pulling the plug they rented the park, including both race tracks to exactly the same privateers who were driving forces behind the Leisure Park's initial private setup.
Without Racing experience they are since experimenting with events completely unrelated to Motor-sport all under the iconic "Nürburgring" brand name.
They now want Nordschleife to pay for the huge losses. Tourist drives are at a record high, plus a 5 times increase in rent for the automotive industry for their prototype testing sessions.
So what can be done?
Separate Nordschleife from ring°park.
Let Nürburgring be Motor-sport.
Value the great heritage and tradition, rather than Roller Coasters.
Let the Ring be run by Motor-sport experts.
We are asking the EU-Commission to take action to Save The Nürburgring and stop package deals and the monopoly power that is threatening to push traditional local businesses out of the market, replace the current owners with Motor-Sport Experts and don't let the heritage of the Nürburgring be lost.
Ringracer are supporting this and we have set up an online petition, please sign the petition here and help save this magical and historic place
From 2007 - 2009 the German government built a huge Leisure Park at the Nürburgring. It is based on fake visitor numbers, over sized and badly executed. Most of the time it is an empty ghost town. Once promised as private investment, it is now based on a debt of 400+ million EUR public money.
Instead of pulling the plug they rented the park, including both race tracks to exactly the same privateers who were driving forces behind the Leisure Park's initial private setup.
Without Racing experience they are since experimenting with events completely unrelated to Motor-sport all under the iconic "Nürburgring" brand name.
They now want Nordschleife to pay for the huge losses. Tourist drives are at a record high, plus a 5 times increase in rent for the automotive industry for their prototype testing sessions.
So what can be done?
Separate Nordschleife from ring°park.
Let Nürburgring be Motor-sport.
Value the great heritage and tradition, rather than Roller Coasters.
Let the Ring be run by Motor-sport experts.
We are asking the EU-Commission to take action to Save The Nürburgring and stop package deals and the monopoly power that is threatening to push traditional local businesses out of the market, replace the current owners with Motor-Sport Experts and don't let the heritage of the Nürburgring be lost.
Ringracer are supporting this and we have set up an online petition, please sign the petition here and help save this magical and historic place
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Anything and everything we find out about the Nurburgring will be published here, so keep following
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