• @RapidcreekOP
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    Again.

    The lead congressman is from Michigan, home of GM.

    FOM is a US company and very much under US law. Even if it wasn’t it could still be charged with US antitrust laws.

    The same thing happened to FIFA

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      No. FOM is a British company and is under British law. The Concorde Agreement is under British law. You are wrong. Please do your research.

      Stop dodging the damn question. How many times do you need to be asked? Answer it.

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        No, FWONK is a US company, but nevermind the facts. The Concord Agreement is a registered corporate document of a US company that used to be known as Liberty Media, and is now Formula One. As such, it is under the purview of of the SEC, DOJ among others. This is not a contract dispute. It is a potential antitrust suit.

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          No. FOM is a British company, based in the UK, bound by UK law. It is headquartered in London. The Concorde Agreement is also under the purview of British law. You keep repeating that 2+2=5, but that does not make it so.

          Stop ignoring my question. Answer it.

          • @RapidcreekOP
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            I really don’t know what your problem is. I’ve already told you that you’re wrong, but it doesn’t matter. FiFA is a Swiss company, and they have been successfully sued by the US government on antitrust. Also, the Concord Agreement contract doesn’t matter except to the point of F1 minding their own rules. Antitrust is not a contract dispute, as I said

            I’ve been patient. Be glad to answer your question if you state it plainly.

            • @TheGrandNagus
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              I’ve told you that you’re wrong. FOM is under UK jurisdiction, it’s a UK company. And the Concorde Agreement is answerable to UK law, not US law.

              If Andretti wants in, they’ll have to challenge it in UK courts, not American ones.

              I don’t think I can dumb this down any more for you, I’m sorry.

              And no, since you’ve been dodging the question, clearly you aren’t. Answer it. Do you think the UK has the right to tell the NFL that they must accept British teams? Yes or no.

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                This is the last time I’ll say this.

                1. Liberty is a US company, and owns F1. It doesn’t matter what law their contracts construction contain because this is not a contract issue.

                2. This is not about Andretti, it’s about GM.

                3. That question is in reality useless, since the NFL would love to have a British team. If they did have a team complying with their rules, and the NFL was found to be breaking British antitrust laws; I’ve got no problem with them being sued.

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                  Liberty is a US company, and owns F1.

                  That’s not how this works. McDonald’s owns McDonald’s UK, but that doesn’t mean that McDonald’s UK follows US laws. It follows UK laws. The same applies to FOM, which is a British business, based in the UK, and complies with UK law. US laws don’t apply to them, nor is there any mechanisms to apply them.

                  How is that hard to understand? How many more times do I need to explain it to you? If you set up a lemonade stand in the US then another in Spain, they’ll follow the laws of where they’re based respectively. They wouldn’t bother be under the guise of US law.

                  this is not a contract issue.

                  Yes it is.

                  This is not about Andretti

                  Yes it is.

                  That question is in reality useless, since the NFL would love to have a British team.

                  Stop dodging the question.

                  and the NFL was found to be breaking British antitrust laws; I’ve got no problem with them being sued.

                  Interesting… So you think any country should be able to sue any company or sporting organisation for their business elsewhere. Cool. I’ll be awaiting, say, Germany suing USPS and you cheering for it.

                  • @RapidcreekOP
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                    There are US laws for business. Most countries have them. Antitrust laws are not contingent on internal contracts. It’s a law not a contract dispute. If you can acknowledge that it might be worthwhile to go further.