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Full speed ahead for Bahrain: Ecclestone
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February 24, 2012, Friday
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FORMULA One teams and sponsors have no concerns about racing in Bahrain this year and the grand prix is definitely on despite continuing unrest, the sport's commercial supremo Bernie Ecclestone said yesterday.
"Nobody is saying we're not going or we don't want to go or anything. Everybody is quite positive," the 81-year-old told reporters after a news conference to announce a technology partnership with India's Tata Communications.
"I've told all the teams it's no problem at all, I'm absolutely 100 percent sure we'll go there and there will be no problem."
Tickets for the April 22 race at the Sakhir circuit went on sale at the start of the week. Last year's grand prix was postponed and then cancelled after a bloody crackdown on protesters.
Asked about media reports of a British man having fingers chopped off in violence marking the anniversary of the uprising, Ecclestone shrugged.
"But you don't know why. There are probably people here that had worse things happen to them. It happened to me actually," said the billionaire, who was mugged in 2010 for his watch near his office in the wealthy Knightsbridge district of central London.
"Nobody is saying we're not going or we don't want to go or anything. Everybody is quite positive," the 81-year-old told reporters after a news conference to announce a technology partnership with India's Tata Communications.
"I've told all the teams it's no problem at all, I'm absolutely 100 percent sure we'll go there and there will be no problem."
Tickets for the April 22 race at the Sakhir circuit went on sale at the start of the week. Last year's grand prix was postponed and then cancelled after a bloody crackdown on protesters.
Asked about media reports of a British man having fingers chopped off in violence marking the anniversary of the uprising, Ecclestone shrugged.
"But you don't know why. There are probably people here that had worse things happen to them. It happened to me actually," said the billionaire, who was mugged in 2010 for his watch near his office in the wealthy Knightsbridge district of central London.
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