I’M NO SWEET TALKER
Tough guy Gareth bans player snacks
TOTO WOLFF has warned F1 bosses not to turn the sport into a “shopping channel” or they will threaten the very future of the series.
New owners Liberty Media, who completed their ousting of Bernie Ecclestone last year, have spent 12 months opening up the sport in GARETH Southgate has banned sweets and snacks at St George’s Park after insisting there is no more Mr Nice Guy. The training complex has been shut to the public from Sunday in line with a policy adopted an effort to increase their falling revenues.
Wolff’s own No1 asset Lewis Hamilton bears 12 different logos on his race suit that represent £112million of backing.
And his Mercedes boss believes Ferrari CEO Sergio Marchionne last year of making England get-togethers behind-closeddoors occasions.
It gives the England hierarchy total control over the operation of the facility ahead of Friday’s friendly in Holland. Manager Southgate has ordered the coffee will not take kindly to the continued dilution of F1’s racing values.
Wolff, right, said: “Marchionne has a clear vision of what F1 should represent for Ferrari, which is a purist sport that isn’t a shopping channel. I would strongly encourage the sport’s stakeholders not franchise in operation to remove snacks and sweets from the counter and to serve drinks only to the players – and the addition of syrups to coffee has also been banned.
There is a concern that boredom-induced snacking could harm the carefully balanced diets of the players to provoke him.” Liberty also want to change the way money is distributed among the teams and put an end to Ferrari’s “legacy fund” that sees them handed a lump sum – about £70m a year – before the prize money is divided up.