Successful action F1

Author: Russell Horton
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Publish Date: 2002-10-01
Features: The average cost to build a single F1 car is approximately $7 million. Each racing team's annual investment is around $200 million. The cumulative number of viewers watching the races each year reaches 6 billion. As the ringmaster of F1's "circus," Ecclestone controls all the work of the F1 Grand Prix. In 2001, on the UK Sunday Times' annual list of Britain's wealthiest individuals, Ecclestone ranked first for two consecutive years, with an annual income of about $1.15 billion. Ecclestone's story is a legend in Europe. Through this book, you will learn how Ecclestone transformed the F1 Grand Prix into such a highly anticipated event and how F1 racing became an incredible money-making machine.