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'Formula 1 is no fast-food restaurant', warns Ecclestone

Bernie Ecclestone has warned Formula 1's new owners Liberty Media not to treat the sport like a fast-food franchise. Ecclestone was in charge of the sport until the beginning of the year. Despite a prior agreement that he would stay in post for three years, Liberty quickly decided to remove him as CEO. He's kept criticism of the new management fairly low key so far. However it's no surprise that he doesn't agree with everything the new owners are doing. "I'd always treated Formula 1 as if it were a three-star Michelin restaurant," he told Folha de S.Paulo this week. "It isn't proper to treat Formula 1 like a fast-food restaurant. "That's the US standard. It's far below...
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