{"id":19954,"date":"2013-11-19T07:18:11","date_gmt":"2013-11-19T12:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=19954"},"modified":"2013-11-19T07:18:11","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T12:18:11","slug":"official-says-cvc-prepared-to-fire-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/official-says-cvc-prepared-to-fire-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Official says CVC prepared to ‘fire’ Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bernie Ecclestone will be fired by CVC if he is convicted amid the Gerhard Gribkowsky corruption scandal.<\/p>\n

\"Bernie-Ecclestone-1\"That is the claim of CVC co-founder Donald Mackenzie, who gave evidence on Monday as the $140 million civil case against Ecclestone continued to play out in the London high court.<\/p>\n

F1 chief executive is also being pursued in a criminal case by German authorities, who have charged the 83-year-old with allegedly bribing former banker Gribkowsky to the tune of $40 million.<\/p>\n

“If it is proven that Mr Ecclestone has done anything that is criminally wrong,” Mackenzie said on Monday, “we would fire him.”<\/p>\n

He also told the court that Ecclestone claims he “forgot” to tell him about the $40 million payment to Gribkowsky, and had subsequently apologised.<\/p>\n

“He (Ecclestone) told me he had never lied to me and I must say that I had trouble believing you could forget payment of $40 million,” added Mackenzie.<\/p>\n

It is not the first time Ecclestone and Mackenzie have clashed.<\/p>\n

In 2009, Mackenzie said Ecclestone should have stepped down after admitting in an interview that he admired Adolf Hitler.<\/p>\n

Mackenzie said on Monday: “It (F1) is a successful investment (for CVC) apart from the adverse publicity, and this (Gribkowsky scandal) is a good example.”<\/p>\n

Ecclestone, however, told British television Sky that the case is not damaging the sport’s reputation.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think so,” he said.\u00a0 “It’s good because a lot of facts come out of it.”<\/p>\n

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Bernie Ecclestone will be fired by CVC if he is convicted amid the Gerhard Gribkowsky corruption scandal. That is the claim of CVC co-founder Donald Mackenzie, who gave evidence on Monday as the $140 million civil case against Ecclestone continued to play out in the London high court. F1 chief executive is also being pursued …<\/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":[59,2625,3002,5262,5340,2638],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954"}],"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=19954"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19955,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19954\/revisions\/19955"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}