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Baku promoter hits back at Maffei criticism

The promoter of the Azerbaijan Grand Prix has hit back at comments made about the event by Liberty CEO Greg Maffei. Only yesterday we reported that Maffei had singled out the Azerbaijan event claiming that it 'does nothing to build the long-term brand and health of the business'. 'Our job is to find partners that pay us well but also help us to build the product and it is incumbent upon us to bring best practice,' he told a conference in Florida last week. Reacting to Maffei's comments Azerbaijan promoter Arif Rahimov told Reuters: 'It does upset us, obviously. Mr Maffei has been involved in F1 for less than half a year. We've been working on this project for three years now so we have...
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