Jeff the Chef

Magazine

Tarmac

68

Cheers

Never. since I stopped serious drinking about 30 years ago, but lol moments are becoming very dodgy.

Got to be POTM, I nearly wet myself 🤣

Look in a mirror

Harrisfan got to be the biggest Bell-end on this site, should be on the stage, the next one out of town.

More

I always rated the Time Bar breakfast on LK Metro

Nationalists

Always is for me, the Establishment just love the man, not, lol

Oh I'm sorry you didn't, you just implied it in my opinion, by posting the link to the Council. True fact, Jeremy Corbyn has been the MP for that area for the past 42years, both as a Labour Party Member and lately as an Independent MP, the 2nd longest serving MP to date.

Wrong, Jeremy Corbyn is not a member of Islington Council, but he has been the Islington Constituency MP for the past 42 years

https://sites.lsa.umich.edu/mje/2024/04/29/is-hosting-an-f1-race-financially-feasible/ Formula One: it is the pinnacle of motorsport, the highest and fastest form of it. The wealthiest individuals pay exorbitant amounts to watch it, the largest corporations vie for limited spots to sponsor it and team owners take on huge premiums to put their drivers behind the wheel. Despite all this, it still is a huge financial burden on the local governments and private track owners who team up to fund and host Formula One Grand Prix (Balla, 2023). Profits are not guaranteed and sometimes breaking even is considered lucky. So how is this even possible? How is success so hard in an industry pulling in so much money? To answer that question, it is important to start at the beginning of the business operation track owners embark on in hosting. And from the beginning they are already losing money. If they do not already have one, they must design and build a track typically costing upwards of $270 million, with yearly maintenance fees averaging $18.5 million (Balla, 2023). Moreover, these costs do not even include the necessary track additions for races such as grandstands (~$14 million), safety barriers and fencing (~$8 million), race pits, offices, parking lots etc., (Sylt, 2017). But if miraculously, owners already have all this, they do not avoid paying up. After a track is in place and Liberty Media, the owner of Formula One, has completed its necessary track inspections, track hosts must pay a hosting/race promotion fee to Liberty Media. This fee must be paid for every single race hosted and is estimated to be between $15-50 million and upwards for prime time races like the Qatar Grand Prix towards the end of the season (Bodsworth, 2023). So at this point everything should be finalized and Liberty Media should have its full profit, right? Unfortunately, no. Liberty Media continues to take more. All revenue from track sponsors and broadcasting rights for races goes to Liberty Media. And for the 2023 season, sponsorship revenue came out to $445 million (Cronin, 2023) while for the 2022 season (2023 results not in yet) broadcasting revenue came out to be $936 million (Agini, 2023; Cronin, 2023). So as unfortunate as it is, track owners are left with very little revenues from Grand Prix. Ticket revenues end up being their sole source of income, which in most cases is just not enough to be profitable.

George

Suited

Thanks, I'm a smoker and always end up at the back with the bulk of the village Ne'er-do-well's, being plied with Thai whiskey and dodgy rice wine, Madam or her big sister always good for a yakyak down my ear if I go to far, lol Funerals are never sad over here, last Saturday my Thai friends son "made a Monk" now there's a party 🤪

yeah but you're a Scouser and I'm from God's County over the Pennines 🙃 I can't believe I forgot about pigtails and I spelt plait wrong, this age thing is a right pain, cheers.

Snatched

In the UK we call them Platts, great things to hold on to for a DT/BJ

Moot

It's ok in a gin & tonic if you run out of lemon lemons.

Loveable

I could see that coming, lol