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My guess is Michelin. Why...
FOTA all like the idea of Pirelli, and are closing the deal. Michelin want the deal,
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84276
so they canvass the FIA for the deal. Toad, comes out publicly stating the the FIA and Bernie will decide once the (probably loaded) tenders have gone out.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84226
Question is, why the FIA/Bernie interest now? This has been talked about for months.
It all smells to me.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84328
Steve
FOTA all like the idea of Pirelli, and are closing the deal. Michelin want the deal,
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84276
so they canvass the FIA for the deal. Toad, comes out publicly stating the the FIA and Bernie will decide once the (probably loaded) tenders have gone out.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84226
Question is, why the FIA/Bernie interest now? This has been talked about for months.
It all smells to me.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/84328
Steve
Some pressure is being asserted onto the teams (Bernie ball squeezing) after a letter was sent to all teams regarding team sponsor advertising inside the garages.
http://adamcooperf1.com/
http://adamcooperf1.com/
Adam Cooper's blog said:
Bernie Ecclestone is said to be threatening a clampdown on F1 teams displaying sponsor signage in and outside their garages.
For decades teams have displayed logos in their garages without any outside interference. However yesterday they received a letter from Allsport, the organisation that controls trackside advertising, which in effect pointed out that it owns the garage advertising space.
Teams have no doubts that Ecclestone is behind the letter. The suggestion is that it’s part of a wider political game that is going on in relation to Pirelli and the deal it will have with teams, with some teams apparently still trying to negotiate their own special arrangements with the Italian company.
However when questioned by this blog, Ecclestone denied any involvement with the letter or its aims.
“It’s nothing to do with me,” he said. ”It’s Allsport that look after all this stuff. Apparently these people [the teams] are putting up signs where they don’t have the rights.”
Asked if Allsport really did have the rights to the garages, Bernie said: “Yes. Everything on the circuit.”
He also denied that there was any connection with the tyre negotiations: “It’s nothing to do with Pirelli. I hope Pirelli don’t get the contract, and Michelin don’t get it, and we can have Avon…”
Teams say that they can find nothing in the Concorde Agreement that suggests any restrictions on advertising in their ‘designated garage space,’ which is defined by the FIA.
For decades teams have displayed logos in their garages without any outside interference. However yesterday they received a letter from Allsport, the organisation that controls trackside advertising, which in effect pointed out that it owns the garage advertising space.
Teams have no doubts that Ecclestone is behind the letter. The suggestion is that it’s part of a wider political game that is going on in relation to Pirelli and the deal it will have with teams, with some teams apparently still trying to negotiate their own special arrangements with the Italian company.
However when questioned by this blog, Ecclestone denied any involvement with the letter or its aims.
“It’s nothing to do with me,” he said. ”It’s Allsport that look after all this stuff. Apparently these people [the teams] are putting up signs where they don’t have the rights.”
Asked if Allsport really did have the rights to the garages, Bernie said: “Yes. Everything on the circuit.”
He also denied that there was any connection with the tyre negotiations: “It’s nothing to do with Pirelli. I hope Pirelli don’t get the contract, and Michelin don’t get it, and we can have Avon…”
Teams say that they can find nothing in the Concorde Agreement that suggests any restrictions on advertising in their ‘designated garage space,’ which is defined by the FIA.
So, if Allsports own everything at the track does that mean they can put their ads on the cars/drivers as well as the grid girls & the interior of the pits? What about the teams' hospitality areas & trucks?
Do they own the advertising space on tickets sold to the fans too, for example or does that space belong to the poor bloody circuit owners who have to pay Bernie's fees somehow?
As for the tyres - no doubt the company that gets the deal will be the 1 that sinks it's cash in Bernie's pockets.
Do they own the advertising space on tickets sold to the fans too, for example or does that space belong to the poor bloody circuit owners who have to pay Bernie's fees somehow?
As for the tyres - no doubt the company that gets the deal will be the 1 that sinks it's cash in Bernie's pockets.
_dobbo_ said:
Surely the teams clad out the garages with their own cladding and storage equipment - how can anyone else own the rights to those surfaces?
Just because they use their own cladding and storage equipment doesn't mean they own the rights to the surfaces.Do I have the right to put my own advertising cladding on the wall of your house? No, because its not my wall and I can only do it if you allow me to.
Same thing with the garages or any other part of the race track - the teams don't 'own' them.
For F1 events Bernie/Allsport own all the signage rights and they dictate what they allow the teams to do.
Edited by touring fan on Wednesday 16th June 17:21
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