Ecclestone open to Canadian GP return

Eurosport - Fri, 21 Nov 14:56:00 2008

Bernie Ecclestone has said the door is open to reinstating the Canadian Grand Prix.

FORMULA 1 - Bernie Ecclestone, F1 bigwig - 0

The F1 chief executive went on Montreal radio to address local anger about the axe of the annual race at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve.

When negotiations recently broke down, organisers slammed Ecclestone's demands as 'unreasonable'.

"Unreasonable compared to what?" the 78-year-old billionaire said.

"We do business worldwide and nobody else thinks we're unreasonable. We've got a queue of people that want races. So we can't be unreasonable."

Ecclestone is maintaining his stance with regards to the current negotiations, but said he was keen to return to Canada in the future.

"Everyone in Formula One loves Montreal," he insisted.

When asked if he would like Montreal to return to the calendar, he added: "Of course we would - we didn't want to lose it."

"I said (to organisers) you can come to my office, pull any contract out of that drawer for all the overseas races, take any one of them, cross out the name and put your name, and that's what we'll do.

"Because what was offered them was less than we get anywhere else in the world," he explained.

Ecclestone said he did not appreciate how the frustrated organisers leaked the financial details of his proposal to the media, but refused to enter a war of words, describing the tone of the failed talks as "Good, nice, beautiful."

F1live.com / Eurosport

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  1. I think you are right Rachel H! You have umasked Morono From Peru! As the sad loser that he is!

    From Dave, on Fri 21 Nov 7:20AM

  2. ---I N V A L I D __

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    From Lucie D, on Fri 21 Nov 6:31AM

  3. where is Bernie this week

    5%

    From Lucie D, on Fri 21 Nov 6:29AM

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    From Lucie D, on Fri 21 Nov 6:27AM

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    From Lucie D, on Fri 21 Nov 6:27AM

  6. Rachel H
    Does the H stand for Holmes? Impressive detective work!

    From arshad_iceman2, on Fri 21 Nov 5:53AM

  7. Please feel free to quote my deductions at will in future posts. I'm sure it will hit a raw nerve with this particular losing sneak, who is for some reason ashamed of his own nationality.

    From Rachel H, on Thu 20 Nov 11:40PM

  8. I can probably shed a little light on the unfortunate identity of Marnio from peru; he gave the game away with his colloquial knowledge of household cleaning products as well as many other patterns. I don’t wish to offend anyone but I’m afraid at the end it doesn’t paint a very pretty picture.

    Using my Lt Columbo school of deduction logic, his colloquial knowledge of British household cleaning products firstly indicates he is either a Brit or Irish, this means also that he was probably born late 60’s early to mid seventies. Scary eh!

    However his general disrespect of Jackie Stewart and Jim Clark as well as Hill, Mansell and Hamilton, almost certainly eliminates either Scottish or English. So we are looking at either an early to mid thirty year old welsh man or an Irishman.

    Now the plot thickens, his apparent knowledge and appreciation of De Lorien as well as his obsession with Schumacher and Ferrari I think in this case, points to the Republic of Ireland, the only link or sense of history this man probably has is Eddie Irvine driving for Ferrari and Eddie Jordan once employing Michael Schumacher.

    So there you have it, a thirty something Irishman, nothing to do with either Italy or Ferrari, hiding behind his own comedy construct, with no real sense or appreciation of F1 history, clinging on to hopes of Irvine nearly winning for Ferrari once and old memories of the Jordan team sold out for a fiver. Seemingly ashamed of his true identity, nationality and lack of a real claim to F1 history but is clearly bitterly upset at the Victories of the other home nations.

    Hiding behind a lame @#$% Peruvian comedy construct, an attempt at some weak rip off of Borat, ashamedly hiding behind this construct as a way of exercising his own personal frustrations, envy and bitterness toward the home nations success in F1. Far too defensive and sneaky to be funny, it is much funnier though if you look at what he is hoping to achieve and then imagine the real person.

    From Rachel H, on Thu 20 Nov 11:31PM

  9. marnio from peru, so you sit in your bedroom, has your mum and dad sent you to bed, because you talk so much @#$%, so you fort you would come on here and talk some more?

    From paul t, on Thu 20 Nov 10:42PM

  10. Invalid comment,

    From paul t, on Thu 20 Nov 10:37PM

  11. what is stivsf1 trying to say?

    From paul t, on Thu 20 Nov 10:36PM

  12. stivsf1, I am confused, I have tried to follow his comments, but I honestly don't know, am I missing something???????

    From paul t, on Thu 20 Nov 10:36PM

  13. am I missing something???????

    From paul t, on Thu 20 Nov 10:34PM

  14. stivsf1 are you trying to say something or have you got a sttttttuuutter

    From MGA, on Thu 20 Nov 10:34PM

  15. stivsf1, I am confused, I have tried to follow his comments, but I honestly don't know,

    From paul t, on Thu 20 Nov 10:31PM

  16. IT MUST BE SAD NOT TO

    From stivsf1, on Thu 20 Nov 10:28PM

  17. IT MUST BE SAD NOT TO

    From stivsf1, on Thu 20 Nov 10:27PM

  18. stivsf1, I am confused, I have tried to follow his comments, but I honestly don't know

    From paul t, on Thu 20 Nov 10:27PM

  19. IT MUST BE SAD NOT TO

    From stivsf1, on Thu 20 Nov 10:26PM

  20. stivsf1, I am confused, I have tried to follow his comments,

    From paul t, on Thu 20 Nov 10:26PM
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