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Maffei hits out at Azerbaijan event
While the self-congratulatory banners around the circuit insisted 'well done Baku', Liberty Media's chief executive Greg Maffei appears to think the signs should have actually read: 'sort yourselves out, get your act together and do more for F1'. In recent years, the sport has welcomed all manner of countries to the calendar, including Abu Dhabi, Turkey, Russia, South Korea, India and, last year, Azerbaijan. All have paid handsomely to host races, and then built race tracks on which to host those races, in order to put their countries on the map, joining a prestigious calendar the includes the likes of Great Britain, Brazil, Italy and Monaco. They pay vast fees to the sport for the rights...
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