Tamas rohonyi biography of abraham

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4, years ago ( BC) a baby boy named Abram (exalted father) was born in a large city called Ur of the Chaldeas near Babylon.

According to my knowledge, it was you who suggested him to come to the weakest link of the Eastern Block, to Hungary. How did it happen? I knew he visited the Soviet Union but returned unhappy because what he had seen there convinced him that this country was not able to host Formula 1. It was grey and way too depressive.

He told me about it during the Monaco Grand Prix. Since his first wife, Slavica came from the former Yugoslavia, she proposed a Yugoslavian Grand Prix. I recommended Hungary, the country that I was born in. And that was exactly what happened. He liked the idea but was quite sceptical about the realisation. Then, a few weeks later, the Hungarian consul in Brazil asked to come over again because the ministerial people wanted to talk to me.

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However, the process was really slow. A few months have passed and we flew to Budapest with Mr Ecclestone. There was some confusion because of his private jet that had an American license and the Soviets had to agree to have it in their skyspace… The local people guided us to the castle hill of Buda and looking down from there to the whole city left Ecclestone speechless — he immediately fell in love with Budapest.

Ecclestone liked the location, everything was fine for him. Actually, he was planning to put Budapest in the calendar.