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Friday, 10 November 2006 |
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone considers the Grand Prix
Bernie Ecclestone has hinted that he may reduce the staging of the British Grand Prix to every other year and suggested that the 56-year-old race at Silverstone, the oldest in Formula One, could alternate with the French Grand Prix.
"The French are happy to do that. As for the British race, I don't know what they want," Bernie Ecclestone said, however, Stuart Rolt, chairman of the British Racing Drivers' Club who own the venue, countered this and stated: "The idea was proposed and we said 'no thanks'."
Stuart Rolt thinks that holding a race only once every two years would not make good business sense.
"We said it doesn't work for us," Stuart Rolt told the Times and added: "We were unable to see how a Grand Prix every second year works financially - we have to keep the place in a suitable condition for a Grand Prix - and in terms of staffing.
"You may be able to let some staff go temporarily and hire them back, but that's a difficult way to run a business."
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