Bernie Ecclestone

[Luke McVicar]

Hes playing games, Asia has all the money but Europe is where all the fans and sponsers are based. If you haven't noticed by now this is how he negociates deals he makes the party feel unwanted so they pay more to host the event, if he really ment that the sport would likely crumble.

 

[Michael Brown]

Hes playing games, Asia has all the money but Europe is where all the fans and sponsers are based. If you haven't noticed by now this is how he negociates deals he makes the party feel unwanted so they pay more to host the event, if he really ment that the sport would likely crumble.

So he's doing this to get more Tilkedromes in Europe?

 

[Luke McVicar]

When did I say that?
However the places that have the money to build multi million dollar tracks, tend to have the money to pay high amounts to stage the races, it's no secret the European rounds pay less to stage the rounds it's more or less Asian bribe money to bring the tracks to them.

 

[Farmerbarlymo]

Hes playing games, Asia has all the money but Europe is where all the fans and sponsers are based. If you haven't noticed by now this is how he negociates deals he makes the party feel unwanted so they pay more to host the event, if he really ment that the sport would likely crumble.

Agreed, the little kite is after more money.

 

[William Levesque]

No need to build multi-million dollars tracks... As long as you have a good layout (As long as Tilke is not part of it) and decent facilities then it's good...

 

[Michael Brown]

When did I say that?
However the places that have the money to build multi million dollar tracks, tend to have the money to pay high amounts to stage the races, it's no secret the European rounds pay less to stage the rounds it's more or less Asian bribe money to bring the tracks to them.

I was just under the assumption that he wanted more races in Europe, so he'd want new tracks built much like they've done for the past 10 years or so.

 

[glendo]

IMO he's saying this so he can justify moving the races abroad.

i've worked out his motives; he moves it to a new country, where they have to build a track.... it's well known that he is a secret partner in tilke's company that designs F1 circuits. he makes a killing in the building of the track, and makes a killing in these countries paying huge fees to have race.

compare this to europe; the tracks are already there, and they wont normally pay as much for a race. it's obvious it's all about how much money he can make. he would have a race in burma if they had the chequebook ready.

i just hope he hurries up and dies. im sick of this F1 dictator ruining the sport for personal gain.

 

[Markus Neumann]

Sigh, there are these moments where I catch myself hoping for the old man to finally keel over <.<

However, from a pure business point of view, his statement does make sense. European tracks are not able to pay the same hosting fees that certain other countries can afford and since Bernie finds himself in the very comfortable situation where demand (plenty of countries want an F1 race) is much higher than supply (more than 20 races per year aren't going to happen for multiple reasons), he can pretty much always choose the highest bidder and doesn't have to worry if it doesn't work out some time (see Korea) because there are always three more countries lining up as a willing replacement.

I'm guessing that five races are just what he thinks is the sweet spot, where he gets the highest possible hosting fees without losing all the European fans.

Also, as far as calling Europe "finished", he is in good company. Half the business world is predicting Europe's downfall to take place any day now. Obviously it's not actually going to happen, but, oh well...

 

[Omer Said]

Haha it would be like NASCAR holding it's races in Europe

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

Bernie is right. Austin needs to come up with that 25 million fast. Bernie has the future and really needs that amount of money quickly!

 

[Kyle Puttifer]

Bernie is right.

umad?

 

[Scott Webber]

umad?

sarcasm

 

[Kyle Puttifer]

sarcasm

unfortunately, cannot be conveyed very well over the internet (unless it's VERY obvious). I thought Bram had been smoking something that he shouldn't.
Anyway, first sprinklers, now moving F1 out of Europe? F***ing sacrilege!

 

[Chris Jenkins]

Unfortunately F1 is nothing but a giant business to Bernie. Go where the wealth is.

 

[Bram Hengeveld]

unfortunately, cannot be conveyed very well over the internet (unless it's VERY obvious). I thought Bram had been smoking something that he shouldn't.
Anyway, first sprinklers, now moving F1 out of Europe? F***ing sacrilege!

There are only two persons in the world that really should retire: Blatter & Ecclestone. They could have been brothers.

 

[Kyle Puttifer]

After reviewing at Bernie's recent decisions/ideas, I have concluded that it was HE who was smoking something that he shouldn't, not Bram...

 

[Ramon Alonso]

Listen to the billion dollar idiot. He knows more than any of you.

 

[James Chant]

There are only two persons in the world that really should retire: Blatter & Ecclestone. They could have been brothers.

Ha. This is one of the most truthful things I have read in ages.

 

[Bradley Vanian]

If Hermann Tilke made a new flat oval track in Libya and decided to tell Bernie about it. He would probably allow the race to go ahead and say it would be a great track in a great country.

 

[William Levesque]

Hilarious-...sly true