{"id":22482,"date":"2014-07-05T07:25:49","date_gmt":"2014-07-05T11:25:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=22482"},"modified":"2014-07-05T07:25:49","modified_gmt":"2014-07-05T11:25:49","slug":"ecclestone-admits-f1-buy-back-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/ecclestone-admits-f1-buy-back-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Ecclestone admits F1 buy-back possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he might buy back formula one.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"ngg-singlepic ngg-left alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/gallery\/f1-2014-rif-images\/f1-2014-persons\/Bernie-Ecclestone-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bernie-Ecclestone-2\" width=\"457\" height=\"304\" \/>The Silverstone weekend kicked off amid rumours major shareholder CVC could be considering selling its stake.<\/p>\n<p>The reported front-runners are multiple consortiums, separately involving grandee teams Red Bull, Ferrari and even Lotus&#8217; Gerard Lopez.<\/p>\n<p>But also in the running now is F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who is reportedly at risk of being ousted by CVC over a corruption scandal for which he is currently on trial in Germany.<\/p>\n<p>The Daily Express newspaper, however, claims 83-year-old billionaire Ecclestone could simply buy back the sport he so successfully developed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I have spoken to (CVC&#8217;s) Donald Mackenzie and I am looking at it,&#8221; the diminutive Briton confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our company has been a very good investment for CVC and it would be a very good investment for me or anyone who owned it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he might buy back formula one. The Silverstone weekend kicked off amid rumours major shareholder CVC could be considering selling its stake. The reported front-runners are multiple consortiums, separately involving grandee teams Red Bull, Ferrari and even Lotus&#8217; Gerard Lopez. But also in the running now is F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, &#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":[59,2625,4820,5262,5340],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482"}],"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=22482"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22483,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22482\/revisions\/22483"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}