The FIA (International Automobile Federation) did not want to go ahead with the qualifying that is being proposed.

We could trim one off.

It would have been dangerous to run. In hindsight, the more we looked at it the worse it was. Whatever the cure was, the side effects were worse.

I wouldn't be surprised. He's done very well, hasn't he, and probably gets a bit tired of chasing around the world.

If I did take away Silverstone and a British Grand Prix, I'd be seen as a bad guy but that wouldn't bother me.

They say Formula One is a market which it can't be, obviously. Our market is independent, it's a sport."