{"id":18280,"date":"2013-05-14T07:07:04","date_gmt":"2013-05-14T11:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=18280"},"modified":"2013-05-14T07:07:04","modified_gmt":"2013-05-14T11:07:04","slug":"bribery-charge-would-end-ecclestones-reign-source","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/bribery-charge-would-end-ecclestones-reign-source\/","title":{"rendered":"Bribery charge would end Ecclestone&#8217;s reign &#8211; source"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If Bernie Ecclestone is charged with bribery, it will be the end of the 82-year-old Briton&#8217;s long and famous reign over formula one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignleft\" style=\"margin: 5px 10px;\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-3\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Bernie-Ecclestone-3.jpg\" width=\"512\" height=\"341\" \/>That is the claim of a source, who was commenting in the wake of reports at the weekend that German prosecutors are close to indicting F1&#8217;s chief executive over the Gerhard Gribkowsky affair.<\/p>\n<p>According to Suddeutsche Zeitung newspaper, the next step would be a court deciding if it should hear the case, with a trial to shortly follow.<\/p>\n<p>The Financial Times said one option for Ecclestone would be for him to negotiate a settlement with the prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>But &#8220;Irrespective of whether he manages to settle,&#8221; a source told the newspaper, &#8220;he would be gone from F1 by the end of the year.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone told Reuters last weekend in Barcelona: &#8220;I&#8217;ve not heard from anybody.\u00a0 Let&#8217;s wait and see what happens.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If Bernie Ecclestone is charged with bribery, it will be the end of the 82-year-old Briton&#8217;s long and famous reign over formula one. That is the claim of a source, who was commenting in the wake of reports at the weekend that German prosecutors are close to indicting F1&#8217;s chief executive over the Gerhard Gribkowsky &#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":[3],"tags":[59,5262,5340,2638],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280"}],"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=18280"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18281,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18280\/revisions\/18281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}