{"id":17450,"date":"2012-12-21T07:17:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:17:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17450"},"modified":"2012-12-21T07:17:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T12:17:59","slug":"ecclestone-should-quit-over-corruption-charges-montezemolo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-should-quit-over-corruption-charges-montezemolo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone should quit over corruption charges &#8211; Montezemolo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone should quit if German prosecutors charge him with corruption.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"border: 1px solid black; margin: 5px 10px;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Luca-di-Montezemolo-3.jpg\" alt=\"Luca-di-Montezemolo-3\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>That is the view of Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, who recently attacked F1&#8217;s chief executive for being too old to remain in charge of the sport.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Could the post be filled by Montezemolo?&#8221; wondered Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt.<\/p>\n<p>Whether or not the 65-year-old Italian wants the 82-year-old Briton&#8217;s job, he admits to thinking the Ecclestone era should be over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I hope for Bernie and F1 that nothing will happen,&#8221; Montezemolo, referring to the possibility Ecclestone will be formerly charged over the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery scandal, told the Independent.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If Bernie is accused under process, I think he will be the first to give a step back in the interests of formula one.\u00a0 This could be bad for F1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>As for Ecclestone&#8217;s long reign over the sport, he continued: &#8220;The era of the one man show cannot continue: we are slowly approaching the end of a period characterised by the style of one man who has done significant things.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone should quit if German prosecutors charge him with corruption. That is the view of Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo, who recently attacked F1&#8217;s chief executive for being too old to remain in charge of the sport. &#8220;Could the post be filled by Montezemolo?&#8221; wondered Auto Motor und Sport correspondent Michael Schmidt. Whether or &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[59,5262,93,5340,148],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17450"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17450"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17450\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17451,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17450\/revisions\/17451"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17450"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17450"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17450"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}