Bernie Ecclestone believes teams got carried away when they threatened to set up a breakaway Formula 1 series earlier this year, the sport’s commercial supremo saying he saw “no logic” in a rebel championship.
Looking back at the saga, F1 impresario Ecclestone said he never saw the sense in trying to create a new championship to rival such an established product.
“This business is built now and it is easier to do what we are doing rather than start something again,” he said.
With F1 having faced the cataclysmic prospect of losing the major manufacturer teams and a host of star drivers should FOTA have carried out its threat, Ecclestone admits he probably wouldn’t have stayed around to try and rebuild his empire.
“I’ve got enough energy to do many, many other things and that is what I would be doing.”
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