Bernie Ecclestone was at London’s Olympic Park today, and reportedly checked out several sporting venues.
Ecclestone, who also visited the site during the construction phase, hosted IOC boss Jacques Rogge at the recent British GP.
A company called Intelligent Transport Services is involved with a bid to turn the London site into an F1 circuit – which is also the plan for the 2014 Sochi Winter Olympics venue in Russia, due to host a Grand Prix later that year
Ecclestone has played down the chances of the London race happening, although he appeared to show some interest today.
“It’s surprising how many people have come out, it’s good,” he told Reuters. “I’m sure we’d get big crowds.
“It depends on the circuit, at the moment we are just looking at that. Somebody is looking about going into the centre of the arena and out again, so whether that is going happen or not, we’ll have a look and see.”
Adam Cooper F1 
Is that the same Bernie Ecclestone who said he’d pay for a race in London a few weeks ago? 🙂
Regarding to his surprise how many many people have come out, well that happens if you let ticket prices start at 20 Pounds and good seats costs around a 100 Pounds.
Reason why he’s coy? Because it just won’t happen. Never will. Nice idea but it just won’t happen. It’s just about publicity.
‘Ol Bernie is trying to distract us from something… What is it?
Hmmm… can’t imagine what that might be..
Just run round the outside it’ll look great. The British Montreal. The Graham Hill International Raceway?
It would be a great idea except for the recent unpleasantness of Donnington vs. Silverstone. He’d have to foot most of the bill himself because I can’t imagine any potential promoter/invester saying ‘yeah, I’ll be Bernie’s tool. He could afford it, but I can’t imagine him taking the risk, he prefers to leave that to others so that he can have the option to bail out if the proposition fails. It simply flies in the face of Bernies modus operandi, which is to influence others to spend their money while he reaps the benefits.
This is quite possibly the best summation of Bernie I’ve read in a while. Well-said good sir (or ma’am), well-said.