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Think their hands are tied a lot until the current F1 deal finishes with the teams...and doesn't help when none of the the teams seem to care either...they are just interested in short term money.
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With respect, if they didn't know that when they bought it, they deserve to fail. I think the reality is, they really have no clue about what it should be and if the reports are correct neither do the manufacturers.
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30 Jan 2019, 08:57 (Ref:3880592) | #1028 | |
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Well they have now announced they will do a season launch prior to the Australian GP
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30 Jan 2019, 09:14 (Ref:3880605) | #1029 | ||
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Pringle seems to have Liberty figured out. "If this continues, Formula 1 will be racing on second-rate circuits, if any at all," Pringle told The Daily Mail. He added: "Everyone is disgruntled. Liberty's ideas are disjointed. "We have all been compliant and quiet hitherto, but we have great concerns about the future health of the sport under the people who run it now." |
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Second rate circuits - like Bahrain , Abu Dhabi,Shanghai and Sochi then ?
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Indeed I suspect people hoped they'd be swapped out pr dropped.
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Yeah, we need more places on the calendar that actually add to it. I wouldn’t mind shortening the calendar by a couple of GPs
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I think BE sold at the end of the golden era for F1 financially and Liberty, conversely, bought in at the top. Agreed, I am making assumptions here, but I think Liberty.
The reality has probably been.
Hence now we have alleged rumours of Liberty looking tosell F1 or a large equity in it, Red Bull have already denied a rumour that they might buy F1, apparently. F1 will still make money as it has enough long termish deals from the lucrative BE deal days, but after that it will (IMO) get harder and harder to get big pay days and in the end FOM may end up having to be a joint promoter (and risk holder) at some of the events, maybe that will be the business model of the future. Couple that with likely future increased regulation of sectors that are cash rich enought to sponsor F1 (betting/alcohol), massive change in the car market as manufacturers scale back production/model ranges and employees whilst they readjust to the new tech car market (which is why they are still in FE), general lack of interest in cars from the younger generation adding to ageing dempgraphich audience for F1. That all looks a challenge to me.. |
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Agree very much with your entire post.
I will add that a curve that defines F1 will not be smooth, so it will have natural peaks and valleys, but at a smaller scale as to the larger curve that may span decades. So I agree we potentially are at or just beyond the peak, but there is room for Liberty to create their own small peak (or valley) depending upon how well they play their hand. So it's not a given it's nothing but downhill, but as you say... it is a challenge and likely much harder than Liberty expected. Lastly, we will not know for sure until we are well beyond (many years?) the peak to say that what we thought was the peak was actually "the" peak. And the slope of the decline may be steep or gradual. So being on the back side of the peak may still allow for a viable product for some period of time. Especially if the decline is gradual. Richard |
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I agree with the above post too. It seems things aren’t all rosy, but it shouldn’t be that hard to find a solution, if they look in the right places. But a lot of people in F1 should have seen this coming
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im on the agreement train as well!
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my personal preference is to see racing at purpose built venues over street races (both as a live or on my couch spectator)...while this new type of business model was offered to create a street race in Miami, i would very much like to see similar deals offered to places like COTA. |
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6 Feb 2019, 20:39 (Ref:3882290) | #1043 | ||
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F1 missed the bus by not going electric.
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Controversial! But probably right. F1, or Grand Prix racing, has led pretty much every revolution in motorsport since I don't know when:
Monocoque construction Stressed member engines Aerodynamic downforce (after streamlining) Composite materials Stupendofuels (toxic, highly dangerous and rightly banned but much wow) Turbocharging Energy recovery (boring, but F1 cars today are just stupidly efficient) Carbon/Carbon brakes A host of safety features etc etc (and before anyone slams me, I'm happy to be shown big time motorsport that used all of the above before F1, unless it's drag racing and nitromethane because we all know about that!) But F1 resolutely ignored 'alternative' energy sources, despite being quite good at 'alternative' things during the 50s thru 90s. Standardisation is killing F1. It is not reducing costs, no matter what the FIA say. Loose the shackles and let the engineers have a play for a change, just like the rose-tinted days of yore, excepting the fact that they're a decade or so behind on electrics now. |
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to lose the sound of F1 engines, even if the turbo hybrid era is not as good as the V8/V10 era. So I hope it doesn't go electric
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7 Feb 2019, 15:53 (Ref:3882434) | #1046 | ||
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i get the Liberty companies mixed up but one ones FOM/F1 and another owns a big chunk of FE...subsequently both are owned/controlled by John Malone. i would imagine this is intentional with one acting as a hedge against the possible collapse of the other so i would imagine one will eventually replace the other or a merger will happen.
i dont know if its possible but the ideal future for me would be a formula where ICE vs hybrids vs electrics could battle it out at the same time with the better technology winning out in the end. but for that to happen the cars in FE need a lot more development. im sure they will get there, but in the mean time im not so sure i would have liked to see that development happen within the sphere of F1. |
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Liberty by their own admission bought F1 for one single reason, media content that they owned and controlled. Media companies world wide are paying any price they have to to obtain media they can televise or stream and Liberty the way I understand it is above all a company based on buying and selling media content. If they can't leverage the media content from F1 it will be interesting to see what happens. If you want to see a really stupid media buy look at what Murdoch via Foxtel paid for the rights to Supercars in Oz for a pitiful rise in viewers.
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I recently caught up with highlights of last year's Indycar races on BT sport and compared with F1, the races were positively exciting to watch. The cars have more power than grip, a fundamental to any spectator and a real test of driving ability certainly with the variation between circuits switching between street circuits, ovals and conventional race tracks. Visually, Indycars solution with the alternative to the halo concept is far more acceptable and whilst the side pods introduced principally for safety in oval racing are a bit of an eyesore they are not as objectionable as those on the FE cars. Ok from a purist point of view the "push to pass" is pretty gimmicky but again no less so than the awful contrived DRS in F1. Quite aside from the financial aspects, as a long term race fan I am sure some lessons could be learnt from looking across the pond. On the subject of F1 being exclusive to Sky, why is it at a time when we can view major motor racing events from across the world F1 remain so elitist? I follow many disciplines of motor racing both trackside and at home have done for many years because I am real fan. If you are dedicated, all the big events including the top flight sportscars, open wheel and just about any motor racing discipline is available for very little personal financial outlay certainly compared with other sports and I am mystified as to why at a time of falling audiences you would choose to put the pinnacle of motorsport behind a paywall. It maybe that BE negotiated the deal with Sky to have exclusive rights but surely Liberty should have had the foresight to rescind this arrangement by whatever means in the long term interests of F1. |
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More power than grip is usually the way to get close racing
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