Mosley Urges BRDC to Accept 'Blinding' Deal
Max Mosley, president of world motorsports' governing body, the FIA, has told the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) to take up a "blinding deal" tabled to save the British Grand Prix.
Max Mosley, president of world motorsports' governing body, the FIA, has told the British Racing Drivers' Club (BRDC) to take up a "blinding deal" tabled to save the British Grand Prix.
Mosley claims that Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone and Brands Hatch Circuits Ltd - who own the rights to the race - have offered to fund the £40million (pounds) refurbishment of Silverstone.
But the stumbling block would appear to be the rent which the BRDC - led by president Sir Jackie Stewart - would receive from any deal, with Mosley claiming that the BRDC's demands are unreasonable.
"If they receive £5 million (in rent), that's an awful lot of money for a disused airfield which they got for free," said Mosley. "Jackie may say that he would accept a reduced rent but he has not yet agreed to that and that is the difference.
"The BRDC have got to take a greatly reduced rent and they should not monopolise half the facilities on the circuit as they do now. If they do that, then Brands Hatch Circuits and Bernie between them would finance the work that needs to be done as laid out in the master plan for the circuit.
"The BRDC would then get the facilities they would want and, once the contract runs out, would presumably keep them. It is a blinding deal from their point of view."
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