{"id":18051,"date":"2013-04-02T07:04:26","date_gmt":"2013-04-02T11:04:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18051"},"modified":"2013-04-02T07:04:26","modified_gmt":"2013-04-02T11:04:26","slug":"supermarket-boss-could-maybe-run-f1-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/supermarket-boss-could-maybe-run-f1-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Supermarket boss could &#8216;maybe&#8217; run F1 &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has failed to deny rumours Justin King, the 51-year-old British boss of supermarket chain Sainsbury&#8217;s, is being lined up to replace him.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-2\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2012-rif-images\/f1-12-people\/Bernie-Ecclestone-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>F1&#8217;s 82-year-old chief executive Ecclestone is embroiled in the Gribkowsky corruption affair, which could see him convicted by German authorities or stepped down by the sport&#8217;s owners CVC.<\/p>\n<p>According to business journalist Christian Sylt, one name regularly linked with Ecclestone&#8217;s job is Justin King.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone told the Guardian: &#8220;I&#8217;ve no idea whether the boss of a company like Sainsbury&#8217;s could do my job.\u00a0 Maybe he could.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>King&#8217;s son is Jordan King, who this year will race in European Formula 3, reportedly with the backing of five brands with business ties to Sainsbury&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has failed to deny rumours Justin King, the 51-year-old British boss of supermarket chain Sainsbury&#8217;s, is being lined up to replace him. F1&#8217;s 82-year-old chief executive Ecclestone is embroiled in the Gribkowsky corruption affair, which could see him convicted by German authorities or stepped down by the sport&#8217;s owners CVC. According to business &#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":[59,2637,5262,5340,4382,4383],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051"}],"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=18051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18052,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18051\/revisions\/18052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}