Famed athlete P.T. Usha has said that the Indian Grand Prix is useless waste of money. Do you agree with her? In fact, PT Usha does not even consider motor or formula 1 racing a sport.
"I feel very bad because such hi-fi business has nothing to do with 99% of Indians. It is a criminal waste (of money). First, Twenty20 cricket spoiled the spirit of Indian sports, and now here comes another avatar which will mostly attract corporate money, who (Corporate) rarely spend for sports promotion. Only God can save the Indian sports," Usha said.
Top Shooter Gagan Narang thinks that Formula 1 racing in Indian should be open to viewing for everyone not just people with lot of money. He said, " "Let's face it that the sport is not for everyone. Only people with money will have the access. It has to be marketed well. I have heard from Indian friends abroad that turning up for Indian GP is more expensive than Singapore GP. That beats the purpose."
Its high time for change in way sports in perceived in India. Commercialization is the way to go. These corporates can pump in huge money in sports which will only enable them to pose as a proper career prospect. These traditional sports person keep cribbing for the lack of sports facility and funding from the government. We all know what our government cannot do in 100 years, our corporates can do in months.
I am pretty sure that if we can get good funding through commercialization, we have enough talent to shine in all possible sporting arenas. F1 is mistaken as a richmen sport it is not,the investments are huge but look at the opportunities it has created in employment,technology and resources,TCS provides services for ferrari,more than 10000 ppl will get jobs at buddh,it will help in tourism,will generate money as its reaches to more than 300 countries,and even the CEO of sauber team(monisha) is an indian origin women,it provides work for engineers n many others,its run with lot of thoughts not something like wht happened with cwc n athletes also found guilty for doping,n its corporates like tata,sahara who are providing facilities for our athletes,if u dont support anything at least dont discourage it,was the money spent on CWC was usefull?
"I feel very bad because such hi-fi business has nothing to do with 99% of Indians. It is a criminal waste (of money). First, Twenty20 cricket spoiled the spirit of Indian sports, and now here comes another avatar which will mostly attract corporate money, who (Corporate) rarely spend for sports promotion. Only God can save the Indian sports," Usha said.
Top Shooter Gagan Narang thinks that Formula 1 racing in Indian should be open to viewing for everyone not just people with lot of money. He said, " "Let's face it that the sport is not for everyone. Only people with money will have the access. It has to be marketed well. I have heard from Indian friends abroad that turning up for Indian GP is more expensive than Singapore GP. That beats the purpose."
Its high time for change in way sports in perceived in India. Commercialization is the way to go. These corporates can pump in huge money in sports which will only enable them to pose as a proper career prospect. These traditional sports person keep cribbing for the lack of sports facility and funding from the government. We all know what our government cannot do in 100 years, our corporates can do in months.
I am pretty sure that if we can get good funding through commercialization, we have enough talent to shine in all possible sporting arenas. F1 is mistaken as a richmen sport it is not,the investments are huge but look at the opportunities it has created in employment,technology and resources,TCS provides services for ferrari,more than 10000 ppl will get jobs at buddh,it will help in tourism,will generate money as its reaches to more than 300 countries,and even the CEO of sauber team(monisha) is an indian origin women,it provides work for engineers n many others,its run with lot of thoughts not something like wht happened with cwc n athletes also found guilty for doping,n its corporates like tata,sahara who are providing facilities for our athletes,if u dont support anything at least dont discourage it,was the money spent on CWC was usefull?
