Bernie - The executioner of F1
Posted by: Geoff P on 01 December 2008
Well First off the mature race venues are being priced out as this quote illustrates:
"According to a report, this year's Hockenheim race made a staggering loss of 5.3 million euros, however, the German government is not in favour of taking on the loss. This means that Hockenheim, which alternates hosting the German GP with the Nurburgring, could lose out permanently to Germany's other F1 race-track."
However, should the Nurburgring also find dwindling spectator numbers putting its race in jeopardy, Germany could go from two races in 2006 to none at all in 2010.
This year alone Formula One lost the Canadian GP after it was revealed that the race organisers did not have the finances needed to pay F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone to host the race."
However not content with that he has come up with a great new idea it seems:
Ecclestone recently revealed that he would like to see gold, silver and bronze medals awarded instead of points as he believes this would encourage attacking racing. "I am fed up with people talking about there being no overtaking. The reason there is no overtaking is nothing to do with the circuits or the cars - it's because the drivers don't always need to overtake" the F1 supremo recently said, (as the points build up and strategy takes over) .
Apparently the idea is the one with the most Gold medals wins the championship
Oh boy what fun
"According to a report, this year's Hockenheim race made a staggering loss of 5.3 million euros, however, the German government is not in favour of taking on the loss. This means that Hockenheim, which alternates hosting the German GP with the Nurburgring, could lose out permanently to Germany's other F1 race-track."
However, should the Nurburgring also find dwindling spectator numbers putting its race in jeopardy, Germany could go from two races in 2006 to none at all in 2010.
This year alone Formula One lost the Canadian GP after it was revealed that the race organisers did not have the finances needed to pay F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone to host the race."
However not content with that he has come up with a great new idea it seems:
Ecclestone recently revealed that he would like to see gold, silver and bronze medals awarded instead of points as he believes this would encourage attacking racing. "I am fed up with people talking about there being no overtaking. The reason there is no overtaking is nothing to do with the circuits or the cars - it's because the drivers don't always need to overtake" the F1 supremo recently said, (as the points build up and strategy takes over) .
Apparently the idea is the one with the most Gold medals wins the championship
Oh boy what fun
quote:Originally posted by Tony Lockhart:
Bernie is entertaining, but makes Michael Jackson look normal!
