Dan
I've got no problem with that ... you, of course, are welcome to your opinion. And I can understand exactly what you are saying. However my opinion is different, and I think it would be a great shame to see Curborough go.
It has got some considerable heritage ...
Curborough history , although (of course) it's no F1 track. It's been around for over 50 years, and has seen a great deal of use in that time.
And I disagree that it's a go-kart circuit ... it is a very testing track. Ok, so you don't go hooning at 140mph down the back straight, but I guarantee that if you can get a lap or two of Curborough correct (and by that I mean tidyly and speedily picking the lines), you'll actually be demonstrating far more skill than the above hoon! And the next time that you go to Silverstone, you'll actually travel a lot faster, and a lot safer!
And because of this, it's a fantastic place to learn how to drive a car quickly on a track. The last FCCUK day there demonstrated this admirably. I don't think it would have been anywhere near as much fun if we were all sat in our own Coupes simply chasing each other round Silverstone. It was great to have the short runs that we could each watch and analyse, and the ability to go out in many others cars to see how they attacked the problem.
And that brings me to my penultimate point. If nothing else FCCUK has had some great days out there, and it would be a great shame if we lost that opportunity, I believe.
And my final point is that I'm always worried when somthing like this happens. The 'thin edge of the wedge' type situation? All those people who think that having fun on a track is a ridiculous, noisy, smelly, un-environmentally friendly thing. I'm not saying that this is what is driving the situation here ... in fact, it probably isn't. But loosing one track could be the slow drip-drip of others??
Of course ... all IMHO