Hot on the heels of Ferrari’s latest quit threat, Luca di Montezemolo has called for a meeting to discuss the future of formula one. Last Friday, the iconic Italian team’s ...
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Magny Cours still ‘trying’ for F1 return
Talks to take formula one back to France are still on, according to Magny Cours boss Serge Saulnier. Last month, Saulnier said: “If the will of a number of people ...
Read More »F1 suffering global TV ratings decline – report
F1’s television ratings in key markets are strikingly down in 2014. Writing in the Spanish sports daily Marca, correspondent Miguel Sanz said the most worrying figures are coming out of ...
Read More »Drivers happy with Canada GP contract news
The future of the Canadian grand prix has been secured for the next ten years. As expected, a new deal worth more than $200 million, including plans to renovate the ...
Read More »Ecclestone offered to pay to prevent trial
Bernie Ecclestone says he offered to pay more than $40 million to stop the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery affair. Writing in the Independent newspaper, F1 business journalist Christian Sylt said the ...
Read More »Gribkowsky asked BayernLB boss for millions – report
Bernie Ecclestone was not the only man Gerhard Gribkowsky turned to as he sought to make his millions. That is the claim that emerged in a Munich court on Wednesday, ...
Read More »Witness supports Ecclestone’s blackmail defence
Bernie Ecclestone’s claim that he was blackmailed by Gerhard Gribkowsky got a boost in court this week. Gribkowsky has already been jailed in Germany for accepting the F1 supremo’s alleged ...
Read More »Pirelli president responds to F1 ‘criticism’
It took twenty years for Pirelli to make the financial decision to re-enter formula one. That is the admission of the Italian tyre maker’s president Marco Tronchetti Provera, as he ...
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