Not this crap again..Nürburgring declares bankruptcy

[williamggruff]

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120718/CARNEWS/120719856

Seriously. You're running a government-subsidized business based on the world's most famous race track--a track on which anyone with a valid license and an operating motor vehicle can legally buy a ticket to take laps; a track on which some of the most amazing racing takes place every year; a track that surrounds a HUGE, beautiful nature reserve; a track that hosts the FIA GT ONE, F1, as well as events for every other major racing league--and you run it into the ground?

How can I get involved in this debacle? I'd gladly mismanage that property for a year, book hundreds of laps on the ring, grant myself an all-area pass to every event, setup members-only counter-clockwise race events at night, and leave the German taxpayers holding the oil-soaked bag at the end of my tenure. Who's with me?

[robspeed]

http://www.autoweek.com/article/20120718/CARNEWS/120719856

Seriously. You're running a government-subsidized business based on the world's most famous race track--a track on which anyone with a valid license and an operating motor vehicle can legally buy a ticket to take laps; a track on which some of the most amazing racing takes place every year; a track that surrounds a HUGE, beautiful nature reserve; a track that hosts the FIA GT ONE, F1, as well as events for every other major racing league--and you run it into the ground?

How can I get involved in this debacle? I'd gladly mismanage that property for a year, book hundreds of laps on the ring, grant myself an all-area pass to every event, setup members-only counter-clockwise race events at night, and leave the German taxpayers holding the oil-soaked bag at the end of my tenure. Who's with me?

Bankruptcy was caused by failed amusement-park expansion project. The track/s itself is (was) basically sound financially.