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This ex Rosenblatt partner...

... who (by her own admission, before the usual suspects pipe up with their kneejerk responses) used the phrase "n------- in a woodpile" at a company dinner - WTF???  It baffles me that she is baffled that it might be an offensive phrase, but I am even more amazed that anyone under the age of, I dunno, 80 would think to use it...

Interesting that the anti-semite label was immediately affixed to the partner who is taking the claim against Rosenblatt:

Leiper said: ‘He accused you of being a fooking antisemite.'

Deans replied: ‘For the first time, yes. He was swearing a lot in that situation. I would not call it a meeting.’

I can see nothing in the reporting to substantiate the allegation that the partner who is taking the claim is an anti-semite.

It's Nicola Foulston, she wasn't a partner at Rosenblatts but managing director of its parent co.

Inherited Brands Hatch from her dad and got the right to host the British Grand Prix in place of Silverstone.  Then sold off the circuit for big wedge and the new owners realized they couldn't actually run the race because of planning issues.

Foulston seems to have pulled off an amazing deal in selling Brands Hatch.

She has the rights to hold the British GP subject to upgrades that required planning consent. She sold the company on that basis. 

There wasn’t actually any relevant planning restriction, it’s just that the upgrades required to achieve F1 grading required planning permission, and Sevenoaks Council are absolute nimbyist c u n t s. Most councils would kill for a F1 track in their nay ba hood generating tourist dingding.

It was a sad day when Brands lost the rights to at least share in alternate years the GB Grand Prix, in favour of that dull bit of farming land in the East Midlands.

I was lucky enough to be there to see Mansell win the final ever one at Brands in ‘86.

rare agree w Marshall

I remember when Britain won a second GONfor a few years in the 90s - seems absolutely mad now - and it went to Donnington

, it’s just that the upgrades required to achieve F1 grading required planning permission,

A LOT of trees needed to go. Plus Brands was too narrow for F1. It’s what ended Jacques Lafitte’s career. 

I love the way this has now become a thread about vintage grands prix, but surely Lafitte should have ended his own career by 1986 - he was 43! Nasty crash tho and yes, to modern eyes anyway the course looks very narrow in the video.

Says here that had he not crashed at the start, missed the restart, been classified as a non starter and then had to retire, he’d have taken outright the record for most GPs started, rather than sharing it with Graham Hill.

Although he’d have been miles ahead if he hadn’t only got into F1 aged 30, very late these days.

Anyway, Rosenblatts lady, yes presumably a bit of a maniac

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