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"India is a much bigger deal than France. France is choking itself right now, India is growing"
Hmmm, India is a ****hole and a burden on the resources of the planet. It has more problems than I could list here if I typed all day. And, it has no real heritage related to cars or car racing, so why put a track there, if not for political reasons?
Hard to believe some of the opinions on this.
Bernie made some positive changes but there was no need to siphon so much money off of F1, to put into the pockets of entities that have nothing to do with the sport. If, instead, F1 earned less money and that money it did earn stayed in the sport, things would be a lot better. Sanctioning fees would be drastically reduced, with the end result that races could be held in historically important places, fans could afford to attend the races, there would be enough money for the lesser teams to survive, TV viewership could improve and I think the sport would be healthier.
What you have now:
Nobody can easily afford the sanctioning fees, except governments that use the F1 series as a paid advertisement for their ****hole country.
Fans can't afford the ticket prices, so attendance is low. Bernie doesn't give a ****, he just wants it on TV.
If you want to televise the races in your country, you pay big bucks for the privelege.
There are knee-jerk reactions to problems and a fair bit of artificial manipulation of the rules.
The money is distributed to teams in a way that the teams that can raise their budget through sponsorship get vastly more than the guys that can't. I understand rewarding sucess but they go too far.
If you don't lament the loss of classic tracks, in countries that have been a part of the sport for decades and have been significant contributors to the art of the automobile, you have no soul. F1 should not be for you.
JR
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