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Donington Park not worried about planned schedule
12 December 2008Donington Park owner Simon Gillett has said he is unconcerned about the scepticism surrounding his ability to host a Formula 1 Grand Prix in 2010. Gillett signed a 10-year agreement with Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone to host the British Grand Prix at the legendary track.
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"I don't have to convince people. I'll convince them by building it," Gillet told the BBC. "I'm not going to stand here and tell everyone 'you have to believe me, honest, please'. I'm not interested in that. They'll see when buildings come out of the ground and cars turn up on the grid.
"If they still want to sit at home not believing me, that's their prerogative. To be honest, I love the scepticism. It's what motivates me. The more the experts tell me it won't happen, the more I seem to achieve. I feed off it. It doesn't concern me at all. I have my goals and I know they're realistic.
"It's fair to say I have given the British Grand Prix a chance when no one else was prepared to. I've put my money where my mouth is, stepped up to the plate and thought the British Grand Prix important enough to save. I've done all the work and risked everything to get to this point."
"Bernie is no fool. He hasn't come to me to make me some pawn in a game that will see the grand prix go to Moscow. He could just take it to Moscow. He doesn't have to use me as an interim step to do that. There's no benefit. Instead, there was a real meeting of minds. We bent and flexed, he bent and flexed to get something that works.
"We can achieve this, and that is what wakes me up in the morning to go to work, because I know we can do it."
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