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Someone is responsible, that someone is obviously Ole Olsen. You suggest discarding years of experience in lieu of 1 cock up!

 

He may well have been complicit in the decision to call off the GP, but I don't for one minute think this was simply because of another Olsen track cock-up. I think that was just used as an excuse. All the more believeable is that they simply hadn't sold enough tickets for the 'show-piece' and wanted to dump the whole thing because it would have been a fiasco had they gone ahead with it!

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Lifts do not drop down the lift shaft unless its on tv.

 

I did actually know that lifts have safety mechanisms to prevent this, but you take my point. :wink: However, the real point is how much longer do the IMG/BSI management give Olsen, given the crap tracks he continually produces, and that he's seemingly responsible for unimaginative wildcard choices? :unsure:

 

[i will be fair and concede that it may simply not be possible to produce decent temporary tracks in the timescales available, but for the permanent circuits there's much less excuse.]

 

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Nonsense, at that time Wembley was still used at least annually with World Finals, Inter Continental, European and Worl Team Cup Finals, not to mention the Daily Mirror Series Final.

 

Wembley was not temporary in the truest sense of the word, in the main it was just hidden beneath the turf making the job much simpler than Gelsenkirchen.

 

Len Silver was preparing the track for all those meetings, not to memtion preparing Hackney on a weekly basis.

 

Why then were there not the cries for him to resign after the Fiasco in 1975, why no witch hunt trying to discredit the whole World Final system.

 

Quite simply it was accepted as a mistake, albeit one of monumental proportions, and lessons learned from it, none of this current trend of a frenzy of internet fuelled hype demanding a resignation, although that seems to be the way of the world these days.

 

 

I think your facts are wrong on this.

 

To the best of my knowledge Len Silver had absolutely nothing to do with preparation of the 1975 World Final track ... nor, as far as I know did he prepare any Wembley tracks before this date either.

 

That was the whole point as to why the track was crap.

 

Up until the 75 World Final the track was the responsibility of the ACU/SCB, which in those days were very seperate indeed from the BSPA, and they employed numpties who had no idea (shades of BSI).

 

I think you will find that Uncle Len was actually brought in to sort out the tracks after the 1975 debacle .... I think apologies may be in order.

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