Formula One Constructors' Association, every mention

Formula 1: Fast cars, celebrities, and B2B software (Audio) · Acquired Mar 5, 2026 · 17 mentions

• ▶ 36:31 David Rosenthal So when Bernie buys the Brabham team in 1972, along with it, he also gains membership into the, quote, Formula One Constructors Association.
• ▶ 36:44 David Rosenthal Now this is a very loose organization, organization is being generous here, of all the team owners
• ▶ 44:47 David Rosenthal Supposedly in the meeting of the Constructors Association, he verbally says that he will only take two percent of the total race fee revenue off the top for his services.
• ▶ 47:01 David Rosenthal And back to the original purpose of the Constructors Association of Coordinating Travel Costs, Bernie also goes out and negotiates competitive rates with freight providers and massively improves travel costs on the logistics side of the…
• ▶ 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
• ▶ 47:50 Ben Gilbert He's just the one sort of organizing the commerce through the Constructors Association.
• ▶ 48:36 David Rosenthal Of protracted negotiations between Bernie and the Constructors Association and the FIA that finally get hammered out in 1981 with the first Concorde Agreement, which is still the name of the roughly every five-year agreements that govern…
• ▶ 49:47 David Rosenthal So in this first Concord Agreement, the two sides, Bernie and the Constructors Association and the FIA and Racetracks by proxy, agree on
• ▶ 50:10 David Rosenthal The Constructors Association and Bernie, they have no say over the technical rules of the sport.
• ▶ 50:15 David Rosenthal Two, the Constructors Association teams will commit to showing up and participating in every official Grand Prix race in return.
• ▶ 50:24 David Rosenthal All of the race fees and prize money now contractually must be paid centrally to Bernie and the Constructors Association.
• ▶ 50:34 David Rosenthal And two, Bernie and the Constructors Association will control all rights and income from any future televising of F-one races for the next five seasons.
• ▶ 55:27 Ben Gilbert Not to be confused with FOCA, F-O-C-A, which was the Constructors Association that, you know, just did that deal with the FIA.
• ▶ 58:19 David Rosenthal FOCA and the teams, you'll get a third.
• ▶ 58:41 David Rosenthal FOCA and the teams get 47%.
• ▶ 1:00:50 David Rosenthal Bernice now got 53%, plus all of his cuts that he's taking from the Constructors Association for his services, plus his team ownership, et cetera, et cetera.
• ▶ 1:38:36 David Rosenthal In this new agreement, Bernie swaps in a new entity called Formula One Constructors Association Administration Limited, a new company owned by Bernie, FOCA-A for the original FOCA, so that he can now legally have all the rights to…