A source at F1 owners CVC have named Richard Scudamore as an ideal successor to the sport’s embattled chief executive Bernie Ecclestone. With 83-year-old Ecclestone fighting for his future and ...
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Pirelli could ease new ‘conservative’ approach
Pirelli has admitted it may ease its newly conservative approach to formula one. Initially tasked by Bernie Ecclestone to spice up the racing action, the Italian marque endured an horrific ...
Read More »Smaller teams less committed to F1 – Ecclestone
Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at criticism of F1’s new ‘Strategy Group’. The decision-making group features only six of the sport’s eleven competing teams — powerful Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull ...
Read More »Ecclestone, Gribkowsky ‘battled for F1 control’ – witness
Bernie Ecclestone and Gerhard Gribkowsky clashed over “control” of formula one. That was the testimony on Wednesday offered in court by investigative author Tom Bower, who in 2011 wrote a ...
Read More »Ecclestone desperate to cling to F1 power – witness
The man jailed for accepting Bernie Ecclestone’s alleged bribes depicted the F1 ‘supremo’ on Tuesday as someone desperate to cling to power. The corruption charges, playing out in a dramatic ...
Read More »‘No one’ ready to succeed Ecclestone – Mateschitz
Dietrich Mateschitz claims formula one is staring into the abyss. On Tuesday, F1’s long-time chief executive and ‘supremo’ Bernie Ecclestone will be back in a Munich courtroom, battling for his ...
Read More »‘Stressful’ time for careworn Ecclestone – Horner
Bernie Ecclestone cut a careworn figure in the Barcelona paddock at the weekend, as the sport’s chief executive clings to F1 power. The 83-year-old had travelled to Spain on Saturday ...
Read More »Ecclestone meets Gribkowsky at Munich trial
F1’s most familiar face was missing on Friday as the sport practiced in Barcelona. That is because, more than 1000 kilometres away, F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone was in a ...
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