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F1 Teams Question High Ticket Prices In Effort To Identify Cause Of Declining Interest

Mercedes F1 Exec Dir Toto Wolff said that F1 teams have "dared to broach concerns about ticket prices being too high" with F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone, according to Jonathan Noble of AUTOSPORT. As part of "increasingly intense talks between teams and F1's chiefs to find out why interest in grand prix racing is falling away, one item that has been highlighted has been high ticket prices." The "extreme cost" of attending some races is viewed as a "turn-off for many, but lowering the price of tickets is difficult for many promoters because the high fee" they must pay Ecclestone to host a race makes it "hard to recoup income any other way." Wolff said, "We have dared to discuss ticket prices, and we discussed the impact and the importance of the traditional circuits like Spa, like Monza, like Hockenheim." Wolff's comments come in the wake of McLaren Group Chair Ron Dennis suggesting that F1 should "do some market research to understand why some venues struggle to attract spectators." Dennis: "How can we go to Silverstone and Austria and it be absolutely full, and then we go to Germany and it's half full? There must be a reason. We can all guess, but that's not very scientific. We've really got to understand why these things happen" (AUTOSPORT, 9/15).

WOLFF CALLS RADIO BAN 'UNCLEAR': The BBC's Andrew Benson reported Wolff said that a ban on "giving advice to drivers over the radio" is unclear and "controversial." He said "further clarification" was needed on "enforcing a rule that drivers must 'drive alone and unaided.'" Teams would "still be allowed to tell their drivers when to come in for a pit stop, information about other cars on track, or team orders." But they would be "forbidden to give them any advice about how to gain time by altering their approach to certain corners," warn them about fuel consumption or brake wear, or "give instructions about car or engine settings" (BBC, 9/12).

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