Bernie Ecclestone meets German prosecutor investigating F1 sale
• Ecclestone confident of being exonerated of wrongdoing• Investigation centres on £30.6m paid to German banker Bernie Ecclestone has travelled to Germany to meet a state prosecutor investigating alleged payments of m (£30.6m) to a German banker during the sale of Formula One’s commercial rights five years ago. “I have been co-operating with the investigation [...]
No Angel: The Secret Life of Bernie Ecclestone by Tom Bower – review
Richard Williams on Tom Bower’s exploration of motor racing’s big boss Men who bluff and bully their way to enormous fortunes are Tom Bower’s special subject. His targets have included Robert Maxwell, Tiny Rowland, Mohammed al Fayed, Conrad Black and Richard Branson, so it was probably inevitable that Bernie Ecclestone, the billionaire ringmaster of Formula [...]
Bernie Ecclestone: Bahrain will not be charged for scrapped grand prix
• Bahrain organisers will not have to pay for cancellation• ‘I am not charging them for a race they are not getting’ Bernie Ecclestone will not be charging the organisers of the Bahrain grand prix for calling off the race. The political unrest in the Gulf kingdom resulted in the Crown Prince of Bahrain, Salman [...]
Bernie Ecclestone delays decision on staging Bahrain grand prix
• Ecclestone to make final assessment next week• Unrest leaves season’s first F1 race on knife edge Bernie Ecclestone has expressed hope that the bloody unrest in Bahrain will “blow away” by next week, when he plans to decide whether to pull the opening race of the season. Formula One’s commercial rights holder sounded more [...]
Bernie Ecclestone’s Formula One architect is off on the wrong track | Richard Williams
There are good reasons why Spa has become a favourite of recent generations of grand prix drivers The majestic circuit of Spa-Francorchamps looked much the same at the weekend as it did the last time I visited it in 1967 – the year of Sgt Pepper and the assassination of Che Guevara. But that’s one thing [...]
