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Originally Posted by bella
bernie does like to renegotiate but in all the cases you mentioned, hasn't he had the opportunity to pretend, even to just himself, that he's scored a victory? he thinks he defeated silverstone because he finally got them to rebuild the pit building when in fact he brought donington to its knees, turned the british f1 scene into a bit of a farce and trashed silverstone itself in the process. never mind that, bernie got what he wanted...
as such the best way of getting him to renegotiate with the organisers of the us gp would be to put out some press releases denying some form of issue he had raised was in fact an issue, create a few rumours then return to mr e with cap in hand making like you were doing him a favour?
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In the case of Silverstone I think Bernie had no option but to give them the GP after ruining Donington. It was coming up for the 50th anniversary of F1 and the British GP, which was first held at Silverstone in 1950 and the first F1 GP, so I think not having a British GP at all would have been a major PR faux pas on Bernie's part and Bernie can never be seen to be wrong. As it is Silverstone have secured the race for 17 years and they pay the reduced fee because of its historical significance.