“I wanted to make sure when somebody turned their television on they knew they were in Vegas, not in the desert. “The only problem last time was we couldn’t run on the Strip, which is what I wanted to do,” he said. Red Bull’s dominant triple world champion Max Verstappen and his rivals will be speeding down the famed Strip this Saturday, past the lit-up landmark casinos and hotels, in a night-time spectacular.Įcclestone told Reuters by telephone from his ranch in Brazil that it was the layout he had always wanted and never got. The 93-year-old Briton would still not want to bet on the race’s long-term success, however.
(Reuters) – Bernie Ecclestone, the one-time supremo who twice took Formula One to a Caesars Palace parking lot in the 1980s, accepts the sport is finally on the right track the third time around in Las Vegas.
