Ross Brawn says he has not acknowledged any position running Formula 1 under the game’s new proprietors. The 61-year-old previous Mercedes F1 boss told BBC Sport he was doing some consultancy work for Liberty Media, which is purchasing a controlling stake in F1. Be that as it may, he said the organization was not prepared to make any authoritative occupation offers.
“Liberty have not got far enough down the road to make any commitments yet,” said the Englishman.
“I’m doing a little consulting to help them better understand F1 but that’s all.”
Strength was said by a report in Germany’s Auto Bild to have marked an arrangement with Liberty to run their inclusion in the donning and business parts of F1.
F1 Racing magazine has likewise tweeted that the arrangement was finished.
In any case, Brawn told BBC Sport it “all depends” what Bernie Ecclestone, the CEO of the F1 Group, does later on.
Freedom Media has, until further notice, kept Ecclestone on in his part, under new director Chase Carey.
The 86-year-old is required to leave in the medium to long haul, and numerous insiders trust he will be supplanted by no less than two administrators – one to care for the business side of the game; the other the brandishing side.
Yet, he additionally has a part in administer making through the methodology gather, on which the main teams and governing body the FIA likewise sit, and the following strides of the authoritative procedure, the FIA’s F1 Commission and World Council.
This convention is cherished in the teams’ agreements until 2020, after which another arrangement will must be come to. Transactions on that have not began and will be among Liberty’s first concerns.
Its purchase out of controlling shareholder CVC Capital Partners in a $4.4bn bargain started in September and is relied upon to be finished by ahead of schedule one year from now.
Ecclestone has sole duty regarding both territories. His prime part is to secure the game’s salary, which is sourced from TV contracts, race expenses and outer corporate sponsorship.
