Patrick McNally now marketing director of F1

[WhiteBlue]

http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_ ... t_id=42148

McNally set up Swiss-based company Allsport Management to run the Paddock Club and Ecclestone granted it exclusive rights to organise hospitality at F1 circuits. CVC paid an estimated £165m for Allsport in May 2006. McNally's fortune now stands at £562m. He remains a director of Allsport and a 1% shareholder in the Jersey-based company Delta Topco which ultimately owns F1's commercial rights.

This is an interesting piece of news. McNally is a 1% share holder of the F1 holding company and could well be the designated successor to Bernie. Good news indeed. Anyone is better than Briatore.

[andrew]

I thought Bernie's airhead daughter was next in line to the throne? I can't see Bernie retiring until be in planted in the ground.

[WhiteBlue]

I thought Bernie's airhead daughter was next in line to the throne? I can't see Bernie retiring until be in planted in the ground.

Bernie's equity share nowadays is very small and the owners are not likely to make a decision on succession based on nepotism. None of the Ecclestone girls has done anything that would suggest they could inherit the job of their father IMO.

[xpensive]

I wonder just how much cash MrE's not-so-airhead-x-trophy-wife ran away with?

Money which F1-fans and tax-payers alike will have to compensate for years to come...suckers! =D>

[WhiteBlue]

You probably remember that Bernie exited F1 with his private money prior to CVC aquiring the business. If I remember right he got between 1 and two billion out of that deal. Slavia was on 50% of all Bernies family fortune by the time she bolted. He was worth some four or five billion $ by then. So you can bet she got north of one billion pounds out of him even with compromises for a quick settlement and probably no access to the money earmarked for Tamara and Petra.

[Pup]

I'm not sure Pit Pass is really reporting anything here. It sounds if anything that Sylt was pestering Bernie about Flavio, and Bernie said something dismissive like "We've already got a marketing director, next question."

[andrew]

Are you implying that pitpass would make a mountain out of a molehill?

[Pup]

Why, nonsense. Just because the organization that supposedly called for a "marketing director" is F100, an organization founded by Mr. Sylt himself, and perhaps only existing in his imagination and a few press releases, and about which, Mr. Ecclestone said...

“The people behind this thing have no investment in F1. They’re just being silly.”

...doesn't mean that I think...no, wait, come to think of it, that's exactly what I think.

[xpensive]

I wonder, if you're dating a pound-billionaire, though being a 50+ divorcee, reckon she would split the bill?

[andrew]

I wonder, if you're dating a pound-billionaire, though being a 50+ divorcee, reckon she would split the bill?

Try marrying her, divorce her and report back from your gold plated PC and let us know how you got on!