Some great car guys there, however. Pekka (Finland) just bought his
low mileage Golden Hawk there. I just shipped some '63 Olds Jetfire
turbo parts to a guy there.
-Dick-
(even when motorsports are banned...there are probably motorsports)
"The 1955 Le Mans race may be the most remembered motor race in history.
A rear axle from a flaming, tumbling Mercedes flew off the car and into
the crowd killing eighty-four spectators. The race was also the scene of
a titanic struggle between Britain and Germany, Jaguar and
Mercedes-Benz. Stirling Moss and Juan-Manuel Fangio in a Mercedes 300SLR
equipped with a flap air-brake held off the challenge of the disc-braked
D-Type Jaguar of Mike Hawthorn and Ivor Bueb. Mercedes withdrew their
team after the accident - and from racing for more than thirty years -
and the Jaguars went on to score a 1-2-3 clean sweep.
After that deadly race, Switzerland outlawed automobile racing. Now it
seems they may allow auto racing again.
According to reports in the Motorsport Aktuell, a member of the
Nationalrat, the Swiss national parliament, has initiated a bill to lift
the ban on motor racing in Switzerland in the hope that the Formula One
circus may return there in the future."
> Did you know that motorsports are banned in Switzerland?

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Alex M - 24 Apr 2005 05:59 GMT
I thought it was the hood and the car that killed the most people?
> "The 1955 Le Mans race may be the most remembered motor race in
> history. A rear axle from a flaming, tumbling Mercedes flew off the
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>
>> Did you know that motorsports are banned in Switzerland?
I'm not sure where you would even have motorsports in Switzerland, it's
a very small country, and there are plenty of motorsports venues in
nearby countries. I rather doubt they would even be very popular.
Having seen the excellent skiing and hiking in Switzerland I can't
imagine bothering with motorsports. I suspect you won't find much in
the way of motorsports in Austria either.
--
wf.
> Did you know that motorsports are banned in Switzerland?