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F1 risks breaking its hardest-working people

OPINION: As Liberty Media has been unable to wrangle the same level of hosting fees that Bernie Ecclestone could from race promoters at some of its new destinations, plus its desire to be seen improving F1 through calendar expansion, STUART CODLING argues that the championship is heading for an unsustainable future for its typical fans and workers

To the team-replica baseball cap, ill-fitting artificial-fabric polo shirt and jacket, add another Formula 1 fan essential for 2020 and beyond: a private jet. Or a social calendar free of meet-ups with, you know, friends.

If you thought the F1 calendar was a monumental slab of illogic in the not-so-distant but certainly dim past, when Bernie Ecclestone tossed sheets of paper in the air with race names on them and then jotted down the order in which they landed, prepare to think again.

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