Originally posted by Menelaus
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I think if your a bloke it's actually a criminal offence to go anywhere near a formula 1 car without one, unless you are the driver or part of the pit crew?Is God willing to prevent evil, but not able? Then he is not omnipotent. Is he able, but not willing? Then he is malevolent. Is he both able and willing? Then whence cometh evil? Is he neither able nor willing? Then why call him God? - Epicurus -
Been threatened before - hope it sticks this time, but I bet it won't.Originally posted by BrilloPad View PostComment
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What happened to A1 ?
F1 is ridiculous now - it all seems to depend on the tyres.
They should have robot driven cars and lots of crashes .Bored.Comment
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Umm, don't they all have the same tires these days?Originally posted by ace00 View PostHang on - there is actually a place called Cheddar?? - cailin maith
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WHS but she bought the tickets, which was very kind of her!Originally posted by PM-Junkie View PostComment
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Hotel booked for the night? Champagne on ice?Originally posted by Menelaus View Post
WTF are you doing posting on this forum? Get in there!!!Comment
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Not at the same time. Few of the races seem to have been won on tyre strategy rather than brilliant driving (there's been some of that too).Originally posted by snaw View Post"See, you think I give a tulip. Wrong. In fact, while you talk, I'm thinking; How can I give less of a tulip? That's why I look interested."Comment
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Which is why most of the teams are peeved about the whole situation.Originally posted by Menelaus View PostI read somewhere that Bernie gets 50% of the income from F1?
They're being told that they have to make long serving employees redundant because apparently there isn't enough money to sustain F1 - yet half the money gets siphoned out of the sport...
I'm not sure it all goes to Bernie himself as I believe he sold on part/all of the rights to a venture capital firm, but still a big wedge...Comment
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http://en.f1-live.com/f1/en/headline...19220453.shtmlOriginally posted by centurian View Post
"To make things simple, effectively CVC purchased the rights from Bernie Ecclestone and his collection of companies. Ecclestone had previously purchased the commercial rights from the FIA for a 100-year period.
Now the precise details regarding the financing of the deal is complex and tedious, but CVC borrowed the reported two billion plus US dollars to purchase the rights to the series. Bernie Ecclestone was retained as CEO at CVC and remained in control of the sport he had nurtured and developed.
Now with massive debt to pay, CVC needed Ecclestone to go out there and make some serious money. New venues with state funding willing to pay top rate for a Grand Prix were given the nod by Ecclestone as the series began its drift away from its traditional heartlands of Europe and North America, to new venues in the Far East."
Two billion to buy out Bernie...
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