"The problem is the cost of running teams today is just crazy, but now we are getting the teams to come to their senses and reduce expenditure dramatically – or the necessity to spend money," Ecclestone said in an interview in the latest issue of F1 Racing magazine.
"When that happens we won’t have to produce so much money for them and, therefore, we can ask for less money for the promoter and the ticket prices will come down.
"We want that to happen as soon as possible."
"I still think we should be doing an awful lot more to make the drivers more exposed to the public," he said.
"We have a few things, like autograph sessions and things like that, so they are slowly coming round.
"The trouble is, if one or two of the top guys won’t do it, the other guys say, ‘Why should we if they won’t?’
"The incredible thing is, as I pointed out the other day, when Michael Schumacher was driving for Ferrari, he had a contract with a television company saying that he wouldn’t have an interview with anybody else until he had spoken to them," he said.
"When that happens we won’t have to produce so much money for them and, therefore, we can ask for less money for the promoter and the ticket prices will come down.
"We want that to happen as soon as possible."
"I still think we should be doing an awful lot more to make the drivers more exposed to the public," he said.
"We have a few things, like autograph sessions and things like that, so they are slowly coming round.
"The trouble is, if one or two of the top guys won’t do it, the other guys say, ‘Why should we if they won’t?’
"The incredible thing is, as I pointed out the other day, when Michael Schumacher was driving for Ferrari, he had a contract with a television company saying that he wouldn’t have an interview with anybody else until he had spoken to them," he said.
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