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If Bernie thinks he can blow off Europe, and head to such "hot" spots as Bahrain, India, and China, and be successful, it will lead to F1's demise.
Every sport needs to have a home, and for F1 its Europe, and England specifically. Thats where your drivers come from, and your fan base is. If you start heading off to these third world countries, the teams will eventually have to put on inferior drivers from these countries to keep governments and sponsors happy. Europeans will quickly lose interest when that happens, and all you'll be left wth are poorly attended races that nobody cares about.
That situation has happened here in the US with CART. Its an American based series, that neglected the American fan, went international, and now has no American drivers left. No American drivers=No American fans. For F1, no European drivers=no European fans. Now CART is out of business, and nobody in this country cares. The same could happen to F1.
I don't think teams like Ferrari, Williams, and Jaguar, want to spend hundreds of millions of dollars to be seen in countries where their cars aren't even sold!
Leave Europe, Bernie? At your own peril...
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