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- ▶ 1:45:31 Ben Gilbert Or Bernie Eccleston's fix was in.
- ▶ 2:34:09 Ben Gilbert And so for Bernie to be this cordial.
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- ▶ 28:08 Ben Gilbert Oh, it's Bernie.
- ▶ 30:43 Ben Gilbert Okay, so David, enter Bernie Eccleston.
- ▶ 36:23 Ben Gilbert Well, thanks to Bernie for part of it.
- ▶ 36:25 Ben Gilbert And then specifically thanks to Bernie leaving after that.
- ▶ 41:04 Ben Gilbert Yeah, thankfully, Bernie came along before that became too big.
- ▶ 47:30 Ben Gilbert So it's worth taking a pause to say the FIA is still the governing body of the sport, of this racing series, and so Bernie takes over this thing called the Constructors Association, but really
- ▶ 51:20 Ben Gilbert Well, did they put in that the TV media rights, when they do happen, Bernie still only gets eight percent and the teams get the rest of the 92%, or is that yet to be negotiated?
- ▶ 57:11 Ben Gilbert In addition to these agreements that Bernie was having everyone sign, race organizers were required to surrender income from trackside advertising and corporate hospitality.
- ▶ 1:04:36 Ben Gilbert So finally, thanks to tobacco companies and TV meteorites and Bernie, there's all this money flowing into formula one to fund these ever increasingly expensive operations.
- ▶ 1:30:48 Ben Gilbert He said that Bernie Ecclestone was someone who sold Formula One four times, has never bought it back, has never lost its control, and still owns it.
- ▶ 1:33:50 Ben Gilbert He had another 25 years at least in him.
- ▶ 1:34:16 Ben Gilbert So if you actually are a team, this is starting to become kind of an existential risk of what if Bernie dies suddenly and then they have to sell
- ▶ 1:38:02 Ben Gilbert To Bernie.
- ▶ 1:38:03 Ben Gilbert I mean, so of course we've talked about the media rights, but what a race promoter does is if F one is thinking about going to a racetrack, the person who owns the racetrack or a company affiliated with the racetrack or a government…
- ▶ 1:41:38 Ben Gilbert The entire future success of this thing is heavily dependent on Bernie being in the seat.
- ▶ 1:47:45 Ben Gilbert He's hired by CVC to continue being Bernie.
- ▶ 1:48:32 Ben Gilbert This is important to know the CVC slash Bernie buy-in to this new F-one entity is about nine hundred million of equity.
- ▶ 1:53:27 Ben Gilbert I did hear from some folks that I talked to, and I'd always ask the question, what's it like working with Bernie?
- ▶ 1:58:38 Ben Gilbert There's a lot of value in what Bernie and the series are actually doing.
- ▶ 1:59:18 Ben Gilbert One, Bernie and Max could offer different things to different teams to get them to individually cave.
- ▶ 1:59:32 Ben Gilbert Bernie had been withholding their payments from the previous year when they had raced as Honda, because Bernie's opinion was, well, you're not the same team, so you don't deserve your payout.
- ▶ 2:26:20 Ben Gilbert Oh, Bernie does not like Ross.
- ▶ 2:26:41 Ben Gilbert He just generally doesn't like the idea that there's a transaction that doesn't go through him.
- ▶ 2:41:22 Ben Gilbert Because it was the weird Bernie entities, and then it was the holding company in his wife's name.
- ▶ 2:41:50 Ben Gilbert Bernie had secured the 100 year commercial rights to Formula One from the FIA.
- ▶ 2:45:52 Ben Gilbert And that Bernie had sort of systematically under invested, which, which created opportunity.
- ▶ 2:47:39 Ben Gilbert All that stuff that Bernie did, no doubt built the sport and created the sport and the way in which it needed to go from here, Bernie could do almost none of those things and was probably holding it back at this point.
- ▶ 3:49:09 Ben Gilbert I mean, these, these teams used to be basically worthless in the Bernie era and now