On the Beeb news the decesion as to whether Silverstone will be used in 2005 is due any minute............

Greedy Ecclestone!

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Is this all coming down to cash or something else, like internal politics?

Have you got a link Gazzer?

 

http://news.bbc.co.uk/sport1/hi/motorsport...one/3703294.stm

 

Bernie, wants the Silverstone Circuit to pay him

 

I can't see him taking it away, he'd face uproar.

 

He cut the Austrian GP last year without uproar. Likewise the even-longer established GP at Spa-Francochamps (albeit it came back this year). I wouldn't count on popular disquiet stopping Bernie doing what he wants, nor on any sympathy from him based on Silverstone's place as the traditional home of British motorsport.

 

Well it is a bit of a pit, but I do recall him saying to Martin Brundle on one of his pit walks that it would be staying?

 

I do wonder what on earth will happen in F1 when Bernie finally relinquishes the reigns or dies - he must be in his late 70's now? There's going to be a real vacuum, could be disastrous for F1, with all the big manufacturers squabbling to assert themselves.

 

I've just read the bbc page on this - is it my naive opinion or is he just a money grabbing b@stard?

 

I find him rather objectionable but his wife obviously doesn't