Bernie Ecclestone has expressed frustration with the attitude of Australia’s formula one race organisers.<\/p>\n
The F1 chief executive is pushing for the Melbourne race, with a contract through 2015, to be held at night for a more favourable live timeslot back in Europe.<\/p>\n
He may even be offering a fee subsidy, but formula one remains controversial within the Victorian state parliament, with taxpayers footing $50 million bills annually.<\/p>\n
Ecclestone has reacted by offering to sit down and negotiate an early end to the Albert Park deal.<\/p>\n
“If the government wanted to, we could certainly come to some terms, I suppose,” he told the Sunday Herald Sun from London.<\/p>\n
81-year-old Ecclestone reportedly wants the government, led by premier Ted Baillieu, to come clean about his plans for the future.<\/p>\n
“It would just be nice for somebody to say to me ‘Bernie, definitely, 100 per cent, we don’t want to renew our contract’,” he said.<\/p>\n
So Ecclestone reportedly warned that Baillieu should begin talks now if he wants to keep the sport in Melbourne.<\/p>\n
The premier’s spokesman reportedly said the government will not ‘take an open chequebook’ to the negotiations.<\/p>\n
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