Chase Carey, the chief executive of the Formula One Group, the new owner of the sport, has explicitly criticised the previous administration of Formula One, managed by Bernie Ecclestone on behalf of CVC Capital. Carey was speaking at the FIA sport conference being held this week in Geneva and made it clear his organisation was addressing the shortcomings Amos Youth Jersey it had inherited. He was also particularly critical of the previous management that he believed had served Formula One poorly. “This sport has been underserved by a perpetual, short-term, deal of the day focus and one that has lacked a strategy, vision and longer-term plan, and a willingness to invest,” he said. F1’s Chase Carey: races should be Super Bowls, events that capture a whole city Read more CVC, a private equity firm, had owned F1 since 2006, until it was bought by Liberty Media (now known as the Formula One Group) in January this year. During the period under CVC’s control Ecclestone secured lucrative TV deals but faced criticism over the increasingly high prices of hosting races and expensive tickets. Ecclestone was replaced by Carey within a week of the takeover and although given the role of chairman emeritus, has been removed from the decision-making process. In Geneva Carey confirmed this had been the first move in a long-term restructuring of F1. “The sport didn’t have an organisation before,” he said. “Bernie, to his credit, was a one-man show with financial and legal support. One of the things we have done is put an organisation in place that can support the sport and we will have the key people in by August.” The Formula One Group has made considerable commitments to change the sport itself, including http://www.officialblazershop.com/authentic-22-clyde-drexler-jersey.html the appointment of Ross Brawn as the sporting director. Externally, progress has appeared slow with few concrete changes yet to emerge but Carey is confident in advances being made behind the scenes. “Priority one for us is still to make the sport and the competition on the track as exciting and engaging as it possibly can be,” he said. “Just the nature of what we do on the track – whether it’s rules, engines, costs – take time. We’ve had meetings on what is the next generation engine … That engine isn’t going to get implemented in three months but it doesn’t mean we haven’t had multiple meetings.” The FIA is holding the conference in Geneva to allow delegates from its 150 member nations to meet and exchange information, a goal that has been championed by its president, Jean Todt. Thus far in his negotiations with Carey he has been impressed. “We have had no conflict. They arrived humble, willing to learn, understand, participate and to work closely with the governing body. Which is importantminutes of Game II of State of Origin XXXVI this journalist – and I would suggest several other chroniclers of recent history – was cranking up the keyboard with variations of “It’s over – Queensland dynasty busted by marauding blue hordes”. Thirty minutes later I wondered how I could be so na?ve, so foolish. How could I forget the old but true edict, “Never write off a champion”. Queensland keep State of Origin hopes alive with thrilling late win over NSW Read more Because Queensland has four champions – Cameron Smith, Johnathan Thurston, Billy Slater and http://www.officialcapitalsauthentic.com/Brooks_Orpik_Jersey Cooper Cronk. Though they were bashed up, run over and down by 10 points at half-time, they came out in the second stanza, with the Origin series on the line and did what they always do – play cool, smart, brilliant and perfectly-executed rugby league. And they showed that even with a combined age of 136, that there is plenty of life in these old dogs yet. Again, how could one ever doubt that with that quartet on the field that Queensland’s dynasty would live while they did? The “proof” was there on the field. The Blues’ first 50 minutes was effectively an extension of the 80 minutes from Game I: their giant forwards rumbled up the middle and hit hard, James Tedesco ran off that, and the Blues halves James Maloney and Mitchell Pearce fed big, fast men quick, slick ball. All three NSW tries, scored by backs, were made by big marauders in the middle. And you felt it just wouldn’t get any better for Queensland. When Aaron Woods went off, David Klemmer came one. Josh Jackson was strong, Jake Trbojevic was stronger. Wade Graham made some nice plays. Andrew Fifita took some stopping but was subdued with gang tackles. Yet you felt it didn’t matter – that the Blues were running roughshod through the Maroons. And that the great Queensland dynasty was run and done. The kings are dead. Long live the kings. But the kings weren’t dead, because the heirs apparent didn’t kill them. Rather the Blues Amos Youth Jersey shut up shop. They dropped the ball, gave away penalties. They didn’t do too much in attack and when they did they threw dud balls into touch
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