{"id":20702,"date":"2014-01-17T07:04:36","date_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=20702"},"modified":"2014-01-17T07:04:36","modified_gmt":"2014-01-17T12:04:36","slug":"ecclestone-steps-down-from-f1-board","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-steps-down-from-f1-board\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone steps down from F1 board"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s demise may now have begun, as the F1 chief executive stepped down from the sport&#8217;s board.<\/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\/f1-2013-rif-images\/f1-2013-persons\/Bernie-Ecclestone-2.jpg\" width=\"384\" height=\"256\" \/>The news on Thursday followed hot on the heels of confirmation that Munich prosecutors are indeed sending the 83-year-old Briton&#8217;s involvement in the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery scandal to trial this year.<\/p>\n<p>So the F1 holding company, Delta Topco, announced that Ecclestone &#8220;will step down as a director with immediate effect&#8221; until &#8220;the case has been resolved&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The statement said Ecclestone will continue to run F1 &#8220;on a day to day basis&#8221;, but only &#8220;subject to increased monitoring and control by the board&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr Ecclestone has agreed to these arrangements,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>Germany&#8217;s SID news agency said the trial will begin in late April, but Red Bull&#8217;s Dr Helmut Marko said it would not be unusual if a verdict is not known for &#8220;three or four years&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s demise may now have begun, as the F1 chief executive stepped down from the sport&#8217;s board. The news on Thursday followed hot on the heels of confirmation that Munich prosecutors are indeed sending the 83-year-old Briton&#8217;s involvement in the Gerhard Gribkowsky bribery scandal to trial this year. So the F1 holding company, Delta &#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":[59,2898,5262,5340,2638],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702"}],"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=20702"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20703,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20702\/revisions\/20703"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20702"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20702"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20702"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}