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08/05/2014 at 05:32 • Filed to: None
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BBC reporting !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
the german courts said they would accept a $100 million payment to end his trial on bribery charges.Idont know about you, but thats atert erriffic return on investment.
GhostZ
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2014 at 05:41 |
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I hope he takes the settlement. I'd much rather see that money put to good use than him rot in a cell out of spite.
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Grindintosecond
> GhostZ
08/05/2014 at 06:23 |
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im the other way. Whatever keepss him out of F1 and screwing it up further. he probably held the future of the german GP over them until this deal.
Good morning!
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GhostZ
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2014 at 06:39 |
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Morning, schmorning. I'm crepuscular anyway, I've been having double mornings recently.
davedave1111
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2014 at 07:34 |
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Yeah. What no-one's noting is that the prosecutors wouldn't be settling if they thought they had a good chance of getting a verdict in their favour - and nor would Bernie, although he had more to lose, so would settle even if he had a better chance of winning.
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davedave1111
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2014 at 07:35 |
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You're saying you wish F1 was still murderously dangerous? Or that you'd rather it was only a minor, second-rate, provincial race series? You'd prefer it wasn't on TV? You'd like to see teams going bust right, left, and centre?
I'm not quite sure what it is you'd like to see, but none of the possibilities sound very good to me.
Montalvo
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08/05/2014 at 07:39 |
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I say that the payout must be exchanged into v-6 mustangs which will form their own race series. 100 million would go a long way to start up something new.
Imirrelephant
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08/05/2014 at 08:23 |
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So they're going to let him out of a bribery scandal with what is essentially a bribe? $100 million is nothing to that ass puppet. It's not even a slap on the wrist.
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Grindintosecond
> davedave1111
08/05/2014 at 09:09 |
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korean GP....prostituting F1 for the sake of money not sport. Whose gonna pay up to have the circus and then not share massive windfall profits to keep the sporting teams healthy? Thats what im talking about. Bernie took F1 and siphoned out all money possible. Not good for sport. He constantly holds race venues hostage and keeps them at break even So they barely make money.
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davedave1111
> Grindintosecond
08/05/2014 at 10:25 |
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If Bernie's been ripping everyone off, why do you think they keep asking him to do it again? You're just totally wrong. The teams keep him in his position because he keeps offering them more money than anyone else, because he's better at raising revenue.
And yes, he does that in part by squeezing the tracks to make them pay what the GPs are worth. When it's a track like Silverstone, he doesn't push them any harder than they need to be pushed to do a good job, because he recognises that F1 needs such tracks. When it's Bahrain or whatever, he screws them out of whatever he can get for the sport.
Bernie has done more for F1 than anyone else alive, arguably. He's the man who worked with Jackie Stewart to make the sport safe - he found the money to actually make the necessary changes, while Stewart led the drivers. He then went on to build the sport up into a massive global spectacle with huge revenues, and then managed to rebuild it again after the loss of the tobacco sponsors.
Frankly, it's hard to find a less objectionable billionaire on the planet. Jalopnik's repeated hatchet jobs on him are unedifying, to say the least.
You want to talk about scumbags, why not talk about Lauda? He's genuinely odious, when you look into his background a bit.