Yes Bernie, we’ll gladly host the F1 for you, with an added cost.

While I’m not a fan of the whole organization (can’t say I enjoy watching cars turn around a track for hours…) I do understand the economic boost it brings to our city. I think Ecclestone was an idiot last year by taking the event away from us and giving it to Turkey. Did anyone read how bad the turnout was? The event promoters couldn’t sell enough tickets. As a result, the stands were empty, as football (soccer) dominates the Middle East. What were they thinking?

Hosting the F1 in North America makes more money for Ecclestone. How? Thanks to something called a time zone difference, Europeans can come home from work and actually watch the whole event on television. With the plethora of ads that will be crammed down every viewer, the money we’re asking from Ecclestone is peanuts.

Hooray for an upcoming weekend of hell downtown in the early future.