F1 » F1 chief Ecclestone: I'm not unreasonable

"Not unreasonable." Sorry. That's BS. Bernie will only be reasonable if the price is right.

BERNIE must be the most unreasonable man on the planet regarding F1 and what he is doing to the sport all he cares about is the money he can squeeze out of different people the bloke is a complete --------? make up your own answer as we all have our names we call him

Reasonable??????

The bloke is killing the sport.

To Bernie,

The people in aech country, bar some you deal with,actually vote for their respective Goverments. The people are sick of you sucking up all the money for you three ringed circus. If you have all these people lining up as you suggest , then bernie go for it.

We the people are sick of you money grabing attitude.

please leave this planet shortly.

Sad to see it go: it was the one race I looked forward to attending since it was a few hours away. F1 viewership in NA will certainly drop off in light of it's lack of a NA race. I've certainly decided to tune out for various reasons, lack of passing etc. and now this is pretty much the nail in the coffin.

The Canadian GP was always my favorite track. It seemed to make exciting racing. I am going to miss it.

"We've got a queue of people that want races, so we can't be unreasonable."

A queue of people? Like who Bernie? Cuba, Nigeria, Mongolia?

"Im not unreasonable" - Bernie Ecclestone

methinks Slavica might disagree

I think Canada should have a GP, but it's not unreasonable for Ecclestone to be able to demand whatever the hell he likes. It can be postulated that he's put forwards many positive revisions for the sport. He's always pushing the envelope as far as F1 is concerned and the sport has thrived under him for many, many years.

From what the Canadian press is reporting, he was offered $110 million over 5 years with the Canadian organizers taking a share of the profits. What he wanted, and refused to move on, was $175 million plus all revenues from corporate boxes and circuit advertising. I'm assuming that this in US dollars. As a Canadian I hate to see the race go but if the taxpayer is on the hook for a whole bunch of money, I can see why Montreal gave it up. The $100 million that the race generates is a revenue number, not a net figure. Long story short is that we would have to see a whole bunch more information to know if Bernie's deal would have been a good or bad one for Montreal