F1
Formula 1 – Sale under tension
Without FIA, no World Championship. But is it a hindrance? © Evgeniy Safronov / DPPI
It is the story of a less and less speckled foil war waged by the federal sporting power and the Formula 1. Two camps represented on the one hand by Mohammed Ben Sulayem (MBS), who wants to restore the omnipotence of the FIA over the world championship for which it has regulatory and moral responsibility; on the other, Stefano Domenicali who oversees the interests of Liberty Media, an American media giant, which has managed to raise F1 to unprecedented levels of popularity and profitability. In summary, the federal institution feels excluded from the unprecedented commercial success of the discipline for which it has always ensured sporting fairness, and the holder of the commercial rights jealously preserves the pile of gold that represents, thanks to its efforts and investments , the Formula 1 of the 2020s. So, obviously
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31/01/2023 at 10:45 a.m.
“No need to like each other to work well together. Respect is enough.” everything is said... fingers crossed that the potential buyer is not the bloody Saudi MBS and his "fossil dollars"!
YVES CHAMPOD
30/01/2023 at 06:06 a.m.
If 'politicized' F1 disappears, that won't be any worse! ! !