News Details

Ecclestone defends USGP date

Eddie Gossage, the president of the Texas Motor Speedway, had strong words for Formula 1’s decision to race in Austin this November on the same weekend as the NASCAR Sprint Cup's AAA Texas 500 in Fort Worth a couple hundred miles away. It seems Gossage feels the decision was “foolish” and wasn’t too keen on F1’s scheduling. NASCAR over 30 races during its season but the majority of them are in the US. Formula 1 is a little different. F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has offered some insight as to why Gossage may not understand the details involved, as he is not a global sport: 'We've a small problem they [NASCAR] don't have – we have six jumbo jets to move around all our...
Full Story »
10y ago from Formula1Blog.com 0
Share

You May Also Be Interested In...

Texas Motor Speedway boss says Ecclestone is foolish

Texas Motor Speedway boss says Ecclestone is foolish 26 February, 2014...
10y ago from GrandPrix247.com

Ecclestone responds to NASCAR criticism

ormula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at the Chief Executive of...
10y ago from GPUpdate.net

Ecclestone responds to NASCAR criticism

Bernie Ecclestone has responded to criticism from the boss of the Texas...
10y ago from Crash.net

Texas Speedway man angry at F1/NASCAR clash

The boss at Texas Motor Speedway has hit out at the scheduling of this...
10y ago from Pitpass.com

Elsewhere On The Network

Popular On MGPToday.com

F1 owner Liberty Media set to finalise purchase of...

Formula 1 owner Liberty Media are in talks to buy Madrid-based company...
21h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On IndyCarToday.com

Rosenqvist: Confidence within MSR growing with every...

Felix Rosenqvist has started off his time with Meyer Shank Racing on a...

Popular On TotalWRC.com

Neuville pips Tänak in Safari opener

FIA World Rally Championship leader Thierry Neuville took a slender...
15h ago from MotorsportWeek.c...

Popular On GunnersToday.com

Nwaneri signs a professional contract, now the...

Morning. As we wait for Mikel Arteta's press conference later on, the...
45m ago from Arseblog.com

Barcelona looking to take advantage of 32-year-old...

There was a time in the not too distant past when Barcelona, one of the...
1h ago from CaughtOffside.com

Comments

Hottest News

Recent News


2014 GPToday.com
GPToday.com is not responsible for the news headlines and associated descriptions and images it indexes, the content of externally linked sites or the comments & postings of its users.

This website is unofficial and is not associated in any way with the Formula One group of companies. F1, FORMULA ONE, FORMULA 1, FIA FORMULA ONE WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP, GRAND PRIX and related marks are trade marks of Formula One Licensing B.V.