{"id":17566,"date":"2013-01-14T06:59:51","date_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=17566"},"modified":"2013-01-14T06:59:51","modified_gmt":"2013-01-14T11:59:51","slug":"ecclestone-awaits-amusing-100m-trial-appearance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-awaits-amusing-100m-trial-appearance\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone awaits ‘amusing’ $100m trial appearance"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Ecclestone thinks a forthcoming $100m trial will be “amusing”.<\/p>\n

\"Bernie-Ecclestone-2\"The F1 chief executive and others, including convicted bribe recipient Gerhard Gribkowsky, are being sued by the sport’s former co-owners Constantin Medien over the sale of F1’s rights to CVC some years ago.<\/p>\n

Constantin claims the manipulation of the sale cost it more than $100 million.<\/p>\n

Ecclestone, who may also be prosecuted by German authorities for allegedly bribing Gribkowsky, told the Telegraph he is prepared to appear at the Constantin Medien case to testify.<\/p>\n

“I wish they would bring it forward,” he told leading F1 business journalist Christian Sylt.\u00a0 “It’s going to be amusing.\u00a0 Sure I am looking forward to it.”<\/p>\n

Sylt said Ecclestone has been approached with an offer to settle.<\/p>\n

“All this is about finding a way to get money,” Ecclestone, 82, confirmed.\u00a0 “It is as simple as that.<\/p>\n

“(Constantin shareholder) Dieter Hahn had some intermediary, who is a friend of ours, to talk to me about ‘you know you should settle, you don’t want to go to court’.\u00a0 I’m not settling,” he insisted.<\/p>\n

“The judge will settle the case.\u00a0 I can’t see that it could go any other way than in my favour.”<\/p>\n

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Bernie Ecclestone thinks a forthcoming $100m trial will be “amusing”. The F1 chief executive and others, including convicted bribe recipient Gerhard Gribkowsky, are being sued by the sport’s former co-owners Constantin Medien over the sale of F1’s rights to CVC some years ago. Constantin claims the manipulation of the sale cost it more than $100 …<\/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":[3],"tags":[59,3236,2637,4262,5262,5340,2638],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566"}],"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=17566"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17567,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17566\/revisions\/17567"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}