Motor racing-Baku promoter hits back at Liberty Media criticism

Arif Rahimov was reacting to comments made by Liberty CEO Greg Maffei, who told a conference in Florida last week that Baku paid a big race fee but did "nothing to build the long-term brand and health of the business."

"It does upset us obviously. Mr Maffei has been involved in F1 for less than half a year," Rahimov told Reuters.

"We've been working on this project for three years now so we have more experience with F1 then them. I think saying something like this is ignorant, but we'll see." (Reporting by Claire Bloomfield in Baku, writing by Alan Baldwin)