Montreal GP future: Bernie demands $40M in renovations & a fee increase

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Originally Posted by Clive

One day someone will call his bluff, and other circuits might follow, so when he's lost all the established decent circuits all he'll have left are the government funded empty standed non locally supported GPs and the advertisers will withdraw and the TV figures will drop and F1 will reduce in stature and then he'll have nothing. But will he care?

It really doesn't seem to be much of a stretch to see someone jumping in and starting a parallel series at and with the co-operation of the decent tracks.
If the racing is good, losing Bernie, CVC, Ferrari, McLaren, Williams and RBR would not be that devastating!