Bernie Ecclestone’s bosses have admitted they will “monitor developments” in the German corruption affair. On Wednesday, it emerged that the F1 chief executive has finally been served with bribery charges ...
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Ex-F1 boss Kolles tried to blackmail Wolff – report
Former HRT boss Colin Kolles tried to blackmail Mercedes chief Toto Wolff earlier this year, it has emerged. We reported earlier that a conversation between Austrian Wolff and a then-unnamed ...
Read More »Ecclestone receives bribery indictment
Bernie Ecclestone has been formally charged by German prosecutors for bribery, it emerged on Wednesday. It has been known since May that the Munich prosecutors decided to indict the F1 ...
Read More »F1 extends media pitlane ban to all sessions
F1 authorities have clamped down even harder on pitlane safety protocols, in the wake of the Nurburgring incident. After a television cameraman for Bernie Ecclestone’s FOM operation was hospitalised by ...
Read More »Ecclestone says no to Sauber bailout
Bernie Ecclestone has ruled out intervening directly to help the embattled Sauber team survive. In the not-too-distant past, the F1 ‘supremo’ has been known for bailing out struggling teams. But ...
Read More »Mandatory pitlane helmets ‘crazy’ – Lauda
Niki Lauda thinks F1’s governing body should stop short of overreacting in the wake of the Nurburgring pitlane incident. The FIA has reacted immediately to the hospitalisation of FOM cameraman ...
Read More »F1 reacts quickly to injured cameraman incident
F1 is reacting quickly to the incident on Sunday that could have cost a television cameraman his life in the Nurburgring pitlane. As it happens, the British cameraman for Bernie ...
Read More »Ecclestone loses interest in buying Nurburgring
Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday performed a swift u-turn, having said earlier he is “thinking about” buying the financially embattled Nurburgring. “If I do that (buy the circuit),” the F1 chief ...
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