British GP at Silverstone is dead - Again

[Raycsk]

Taken from F1 racing Live (dated 20/10/2004)

 

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The British Grand Prix at Silverstone is finally dead after Bernie Ecclestone, the Formula One promoter, decided he could do nothing more to save the nation's biggest motor race, a newspaper said here Wednesday.

 

Silverstone's inability to react to the fast pace of modern business means that it has lost out to one of the nations clamouring to climb on to the sports calendar of increasingly exotic locations, The Times newspaper said. It is thought that Ecclestone is negotiating terms for a new Grand Prix in the United States, it added.

 

Ecclestone refused to be drawn on the venue, but said that he had to end the talks on Silverstone to guarantee the new event, for which promoters were ready and willing to meet his terms, the daily said. The decision will be a body-blow to the hundreds of thousands of Formula One enthusiasts in Britain who have been making Silverstone their motor racing Mecca for the past 54 years, it said.

 

Ecclestone told The Times he finally had to give up attempts to save the race, after the longest talks of his reign as Formula Ones promoter, because he had a new offer on the table from a consortium that needs an answer immediately.

 

 

 

"What could I do?" he said. "I have got an offer from another country who are looking to build a lovely venue and invest a lot of money in Formula One and they will pay the going rate. I have to give them a years notice to go ahead. If I miss that because I am still messing about with the BRDC, I would be keeping out a country that desperately wants to be in the Formula One World Championship."

 

What started as an argument over price boiled down to what Ecclestone said was a series of nit-picking disputes with his terms, the newspaper said.

Edited October 22, 2004 by Raycsk

[Raycsk]

From itv-f1.com (dated 21/10/2004)

 

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BRDC turn to teams

 

The BRDC are set to turn to F1 teams and manufacturers in their bid to save the British GP.

 

The club board met on Thursday to discuss their reaction to Bernie Ecclestone

[Seansene]

More nonsense...

 

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Bernie Ecclestone's lawyers say they are to sue Sir Jackie Stewart, the president of the British Racing Drivers' Club, for alleging on BBC radio on Wednesday that Ecclestone had broken his word to Richard Caborn, the Minister of Sport.

 

"Bernie Ecclestone committed to Richard Caborn that he would commit to a two-year contract in order to allow us the situation we need to develop the land," Stewart told BBC's Today programme. "Now he's walked away from that commitment, which is unusual."

 

Simon Smith, a partner of media law firm Schillings, said that Ecclestone now intends to sue, presumably for slander.

 

"Mr. Ecclestone, who has made it clear that he has tried hard to keep the British Grand Prix, and has explained his frustration at why this seems to be impossible in light of failed negotiations with the BRDC, is not suing the BBC, rather just its interviewee," Smith said.

 

Smith has represented many celebrities including Duran Duran and Naomi Campbell although he is perhaps best known for representing actress Daryl Hannah when she sued The Daily Mirror after the newspaper printed a story suggesting that she had flown home to Los Angeles for her dog's birthday when she should have been in rehearsals for a London play.

 

The big question for F1 fans is whether or not the British Grand Prix is going to happen in 2005 but if the event is called off, they can at least get some satisfaction watching two vastly wealthy men ripping each other's eyes out in court - and spending large sums of money to do it.

 

Great sport.

[Adrianli]

"I have got an offer from another country who are looking to build a lovely venue and invest a lot of money in Formula One and they will pay the going rate. I have to give them a years notice to go ahead. If I miss that because I am still messing about with the BRDC, I would be keeping out a country that desperately wants to be in the Formula One World Championship."

 

Hmm, I wonder which country will that be???? SG??? Maybe in my dreams!!!!

[Seansene]

Hmm, I wonder which country will that be???? SG??? Maybe in my dreams!!!!

 

Aiyah, AROC use an unopened road for tracking also have to worry about other mototrists reactions, how to have a permanent F1 track like that?

[Hitman]

Turkey dah

[Hitman]

Can someone please shoot this faggot-of-a-face-named Bernie dead

Edited October 23, 2004 by Hitman

[Seansene]

I second that