Ecclestone threatened with loss of the race in Melbourne

 

The GP at Albert Park in Melbourne after 2015  

is in the balance

 

 

Every year will be questioned on the eve of World Cup-beat the Formula 1 race in Australia. This time again from Formula 1 boss Bernie Ecclestone, who is determined to Melbourne in a night race in order to serve the European market with customer-friendly start times. In Australia we have so far been persistently refused to fund floodlights at Albert Park.

Because of the fixed 2015 Grand Prix in Melbourne, with the time on 18 March, the season begins, is currently at a yearly loss of 50 million Australian dollars (40.3 million euros) in any case of the least profitable in the calendar. The loss, the taxpayer must cover.

Australian Grand Prix in jeopardy

If "drop" in Melbourne, the formula could one ever be away from Australia, Ecclestone threatened. "I do not think the Adelaide or another city in a position to make a Formula 1 race," Ecclestone said, referring to the tight budget situation.

After 2015, 

everything is open in Down Under

Melbourne pays an estimated 20 to 30 million dollars (16.1 to 24.2 million euros) license fee. Australians should try to press this charge, Ecclestone threatened to withdraw the race. Ecclestone wants to help only when finally discharged in Melbourne, a night race. "By 2015, everything is clear. What comes after that is open, "said the 81-year-old Briton.

 

 

 

 

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