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and yet they blindly continue with the bullying tactics.......
From Autosport-
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has told Silverstone to sign the deal to host the British Grand Prix in the next 48 hours if the race is to stay on the 2010 calendar.
The Briton has been in talks with Silverstone since Donington, who had a contract to host the race next year, failed to raise the necessary money to carry out a redevelopment of the track.
The terms offered to Silverstone are believed to be similar to those that the track rejected 18 months ago as commercially unviable, something that has delayed the completion of a deal.
Ecclestone said, however, that there are no significant disagreements between the two parties, and warned Silverstone to sign the contract or risk not having a British Grand Prix next year.
"They say there is not much between us and them, so they should sign," Ecclestone was quoted as saying by the Daily Express newspaper.
"Maybe they have lost their pen, but if they don't find it in the next day or two then that is it.
"I will pull the race off the calendar and there will be no British Grand Prix to argue about."
From Autosport-
Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has told Silverstone to sign the deal to host the British Grand Prix in the next 48 hours if the race is to stay on the 2010 calendar.
The Briton has been in talks with Silverstone since Donington, who had a contract to host the race next year, failed to raise the necessary money to carry out a redevelopment of the track.
The terms offered to Silverstone are believed to be similar to those that the track rejected 18 months ago as commercially unviable, something that has delayed the completion of a deal.
Ecclestone said, however, that there are no significant disagreements between the two parties, and warned Silverstone to sign the contract or risk not having a British Grand Prix next year.
"They say there is not much between us and them, so they should sign," Ecclestone was quoted as saying by the Daily Express newspaper.
"Maybe they have lost their pen, but if they don't find it in the next day or two then that is it.
"I will pull the race off the calendar and there will be no British Grand Prix to argue about."
Funny thing is that all this may actually bring F1 back to it's roots. Few years down the line and all those new tracks will realise what a mistake they've made: without the big teams they'll be no big sponsors, no big sponsors = no marketing, no marketing = no fair weather fans. Places like Abu Dabi and Singapore will be empty and the sport will have to return to its traditional fan base of Europe and become a bit more grass roots. (It's all a bit like when American football was big in the eighties and everyone in Europe spent millions on developing teams and grounds for the new 'World Series', whatever happened to that?)
Either that or in the absence of sponsors, Bernie will hike the TV revenues up forcing it to become a pay per view 'event' and again, all the fair weather fans will desert the sport and a large chunk of the real fans will just switch to another discipline or travel to watch local races. That would probably mean the death of F1.
To get manus back in to F1 is going to take a fundamental shift in the philosophy. Currently a sport that is focused on petrol driven speed isn't really the image that most manus want to portray (except Ferrari), nor is spending millions on developing environmental sites in the developing world into race tracks for the rich and famous.
Sadly Bernie is of a bygone age and hasn't woken up to the fact that Rome is burning around him!
Either that or in the absence of sponsors, Bernie will hike the TV revenues up forcing it to become a pay per view 'event' and again, all the fair weather fans will desert the sport and a large chunk of the real fans will just switch to another discipline or travel to watch local races. That would probably mean the death of F1.
To get manus back in to F1 is going to take a fundamental shift in the philosophy. Currently a sport that is focused on petrol driven speed isn't really the image that most manus want to portray (except Ferrari), nor is spending millions on developing environmental sites in the developing world into race tracks for the rich and famous.
Sadly Bernie is of a bygone age and hasn't woken up to the fact that Rome is burning around him!
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