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Claire Williams to head promotional working group

Claire Williams to head promotional working group

  • Published on 01 Dec 2014 10:32
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  • By: Rob Veenstra
F1 has created a new working group with an eye on future generations. Bernie Ecclestone caused a stir recently when he said he was not interested in marketing the sport to young people because it is 70-year-olds who have the money to buy a Rolex. But even his close friend Christian Horner, boss of the trendy energy drink-owned F1 team Red Bull, hinted Ecclestone's comments were a concern. "When you're 84," he said, "a 70-year-old is still pretty young."

Ecclestone, however, hit back by denying he ever spoke against the world's 'younger generation'. "I said children," he told Reuters recently. "I don't know how many six or seven-year-old kids there are with a Rolex." But Ecclestone had also denounced the hugely popular and world-changing social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter.

And the sport continues to rely almost exclusively on its traditional model of generating income by selling exclusive television rights to broadcasters. But the ratings, like in the once booming German market, are on the decline. "There is no longer this Sunday ritual of turning on the TV on a Sunday afternoon and watching for hours," Mercedes team boss Toto Wolff told the German trade magazine Sponsors. "People want to consume their products when they want and where they want."

Wolff does, however, acknowledge the dilemma for F1 as it looks to the future. "If like formula one you generate 600 million of your income from traditional TV, you aren't just going to tell the broadcasters that from now on we're doing everything for free on Youtube," he insisted.

Brazil's Totalrace said F1 has created a brand new promotional working group headed by Williams' deputy boss Claire Williams. The report said the first proposals will be discussed at the next meeting of the Strategy Group. (GMM)
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  • BtwnDitches

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    I, for one, am glad to see Claire at the head of this new subcommittee. One of the first orders of business for this "working group" should be to set up an e-mail address when fans & others can deposit their ideas for promotions. This would help remove any broad expectations of "tunnel vision" by the group(s) and exclusion of the smaller teams from idea submissions because they're not seated on the Strategy Group. This working group should also regularly communicate news of their activities to the various Internet "magazines" - ideas under consideration, other considered/abondoned - so we can see & comment on their real efforts (if any) to breathe needed new life into F1.

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