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Originally Posted by coppice
Well , this lifelong motorsport addict was never very concerned about the sport having a global audience in the first place . Fact is , outside F1's Western European heartland , with the honourable exceptions of South America , Japan and Australia , nobody else is very interested.
Sure , we might have Grands Prix in silly places like Azerbaijan and Bahrain , but that's just nationalistic willy waving , to impress the neighbours. Just count the spectators at Baku last time - it won't take you long.
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Yes, F1 under BE did become an acceptance on the world stage gig for countries/regimes (call it what you will) to put themselves on the global calendar alongside UK, Italy, USA, Australia, etc,etc, etc.
BE's model would have run out by now even if he were still running it, the number of countries that can spend unlimited amounts of public money, unaccountably are not there any longer.
FOM and the teams need to learn to cut there cloth accordingly or fail. Some of this will be done for them by manufacturer's deaprting just as they did after the (relatively mild by comparison) 2008 banking crisis, but now FOm doesn't even have the luxury of any paperwork they may have signed to wave at them as the agreements all come to an end at the end of 2020.
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