The street sof San Jose - A Quinn Martin Production

[gridlore]

OK, I'm pretty much opposed to the whole San Jose Grand Prix. It's a money sink, disrupts our entire downtown, and at a time when we are begging people to conserve fuel, we invite gas-guzzling cars that lack even basic emissions controls to rip up our streets.

But this is cool. A video tour of the race course made with a professional driver at 120mph.

Comments

[caraig.livejournal.com]

That looks kinda like a live-action video game, actually...!

[jeffreyab.livejournal.com]

I was thinking we will have car racing long after we stop driving cars, like the situation with horse racing today.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

The cars in the Grand Prix switched to ethanol years ago. No gasoline waste at all, and emissions are lower accordingly as well. As for the money sink, do you honestly think the city isn't earning anything from the permit fees, sales tax, hotel occupancy tax, and whatnot?

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

We had to give the organziers a four million dollar grant to get them to come back. Last year's event was a net money loser.

[lysana.livejournal.com]

And how much did the city make last year, as they were the people I referred to in my comment? The event organizers are a separate discussion. Also, if every event that lost money in its first year didn't come back for a second, we'd have bloody few events. I'm not that committed to SJ having a race in it, but I'm not seeing all of the logic in your arguments.