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Chase Carey: New Formula 1 chairman says sport 'can't be a dictatorship'

New Formula 1 chairman Chase Carey has likened the running of the sport to a "dictatorship". Carey has been put in charge by US group Liberty Media, which is buying a controlling shareholding from CVC. "You've got to understand what everybody wants and then find a path," he said. "That is not a task for a committee, as they tend to become bureaucratic. But there also can't be a dictatorship, even if probably they are used to it." The remarks, made in an interview on the official F1 website on Carey's visit to last weekend's Singapore Grand Prix, will be interpreted as criticism of the way Bernie Ecclestone has run F1 for the past 40 years. Ecclestone, who is 86...
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