So what actually is the point of F1?
So what actually is the point of F1?
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singlecoil

Original Poster:

35,831 posts

275 months

Friday 5th December 2008
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I’d always assumed that the idea was

Various people making money by owning or working for teams that made and entered the cars.

The cars are driven by people who get paid a lot of money, but who would do it for nothing if they weren’t.

All the above was paid for by people that ran large companies spending their shareholders’ money so that they and their friends could go to the races and sit in the teams’ hospitality trailers and rub shoulders with various famous people and have a jolly good time.

Am I wrong?

Fetchez la vache

5,899 posts

243 months

Friday 5th December 2008
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Do you work in PR for F1?

I think you pretty much have it.. The "romance" of F1 died years ago, and is all corporate fluff now...

skinny

5,269 posts

264 months

Friday 5th December 2008
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foreign VIP's pay money to bernie for a jolly nice day out. they have a nice air-conditioned enclosure to mince around in, getting served lovely food and drinking lovely champagne, getting seen in the place to be seen. they may get to see some celebrities too, possibly a driver or two, although they only know that they're famous, not who they actually are (hence the team jackets).

there's a race, which is very exciting because the cars are very noisy and fast, and they haven't seen anything like it before

WilliBetz

694 posts

251 months

Friday 5th December 2008
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It's a mature (or declining) entertainment business, with the significant benefits that it can offer big brands / race hosting nations unparalleled exposure to a worldwide market.

FNG

4,747 posts

253 months

Friday 5th December 2008
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skinny said:
foreign VIP's pay money to bernie for a jolly nice day out. they have a nice air-conditioned enclosure to mince around in, getting served lovely food and drinking lovely champagne, getting seen in the place to be seen. they may get to see some celebrities too, possibly a driver or two, although they only know that they're famous, not who they actually are (hence the team jackets).

there's a race, which is very exciting because the cars are very noisy and fast, and they haven't seen anything like it before then after 20 minutes when nothing much seems to be happening and the novelty wears off, there's always the smoked salmon and champagne, mmmm
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