Ordinary Gweilo

I couldn’t quite believe this, but today is not April Fools Day, and this news is from the BBC, so I guess it must be true.  It seems that there is a serious plan to run a Formula One Grand Prix on the streets of London!!

Apparently they set up a demonstration circuit as a publicity stunt, but now the mayor of London (even more publicity hungry than that nice Mr Ecclestone) thinks it’s such a good idea that he is talking about having a Grand Prix in the centre of London in 2006. 

The demonstration circuit was like this.

• Start at Waterloo Place, bottom of Lower Regent Street
• Up Picadilly Circus and into Regent St
• Up to DH Evans department store.
• Turn right through pedestrian precinct outside the London Palladium
• On to Marlborough Street opposite Liberty’s
• Back onto Regent St for run back down to Waterloo Place

I love the idea of Formula One racing cars driving along a pedestrian precinct.  Surely there must be a law against that?