Ben Gilbert: uncertainty

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…Yep. I don't know if you knew this, David. I talked to Zach Brown, the CEO of McLaren Racing to prep for this episode. I specifically asked him why teams don't form a breakaway series now. And we'll talk about the economics of what the business looks like today. I need a great answer. So he said, prior to Liberty's acquisition of F1, there had been many discussions and even attempts at a breakaway series. Of course the teams would unite around the sport themselves, but it always fell down when the teams had to discuss how to share the pie. And it's one of these things where Ferrari is going to say, we're entitled to this and our heritage for the sport. And McLaren and Mercedes, they're going to say, oh, we're really good. So we deserve more. They just never would agree on how to divide up the pie. Yep. The net of this is that team and league relations in F1 are at a all-time low here at the end of the 2000s.…

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