From my point of view it's not who pays for the racing. That hasn't changed much in 60 years.
Right now, the problem lies with who gets the financial rewards of the sport.
From my point of view it's not who pays for the racing. That hasn't changed much in 60 years.
Right now, the problem lies with who gets the financial rewards of the sport.
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If you mean Bernie, I thought he didn't like the changes to the formula and wasn't in charge of them.
http://sports.ndtv.com/formula-1/new...lls-for-change
If you mean the advertisers, that hasn't changed.
Get that weak shit off my track
Bernie's the middle man, he gets a share of the profits for doing all the double dealing and backstabbing. It's all banks and investment funds nowadays.
The rules we have now have come as a result of his business ethos.
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I actually think Le Mans is more relevant to road cars because of the lower classes. Most F1 cars don't strike a chord with me.
Bernie is the middle man but... *shocking* for the TEAMS.
His demands are the teams' demands.
But good work by everyone thinking he is the evil bastard.
Oh, and Montezemolo is at his routine "whine" about F1 being weak, not getting fans and being boring.
Have you realized the routine? Come on, it is easy, it has been the same in the last 40 years: Ferrari sucks in F1, Ferrari complains about leaving the circus and/or that show is bad, teams should do an alternative championship and so on.
Do check, it is the usual shtick by him (and historically by Ferrari) to keep Ferraristi angry at the federation and let them forget about piss-poor or mediocre performance of the team.
And the fools fall for it everytime. Same as with the Bernie hatred.
Le Mans is so relevant to road cars... that almost none one generation or two younger than us gives a fuck about it, or even know the race at all.
That's as relevant as Le Mans is in culture and among people nowadays. In Europe.
I agree that bernard is no more evil than the teams he represents are selfish pricks who can't come to bare-minimum agreements.
Maybe he's evil because he weeds out the smarter team owners, so that he always has these selfish halfwits to herd around. Case in point: Luca.
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Le Mans gets less than zero mainstream coverage from TV and non specialist press media over here which is a shame.
At least the lower class LM cars look like road cars. F1 cars just look like random things. People are also moving away from car culture, so they would gravitate to easily accessible stuff with potential to indicate wealth/social status in certain circles, like F1, rather than taking the trouble to go all hipster (relatively speaking) with Le Mans.
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