All Posts Tagged With: "Bernie Ecclestone"

Organisers of the Spanish grand prix in Barcelona are clinging to the idea the race can continue to be an annual presence on the F1 calendar.

Bernie Ecclestone said last weekend that, amid Spain’s economic crisis, a deal has effectively been struck to alternate a single annual race date between Barcelona and the sport’s other struggling Spanish host, Valencia. But the president of the Catalonia government, Artur Mas, is not so sure.  Read more... (194 words, estimated 47 secs reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone is getting married for a third time.

His first wife was Ivy, and they had a daughter, Deborah. 81-year-old Ecclestone’s best known marriage, however, was to Slavica, a former Croatian model who, at six foot two, conspicuously stood a foot taller than diminutive Bernie. Their two daughters are socialites Tamara, 27, and Petra, 23.  Read more... (247 words, estimated 59 secs reading time)

Formula One Management chairman Bernie Ecclestone has said that McLaren essentially committed ”fraud” by lying to stewards in Australia, and that the consequences could be serious for the team.

The sport’s commercial rights holder, who has nothing to do with the World Motor Sport Council before which McLaren is due to appear on 29 April, nevertheless expressed concern that the team could be banned.  Read more... (229 words, 1 image, estimated 55 secs reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone has hit back at anti-racism campaigners who reacted angrily to his denial that Formula One has a race problem.

Nonsense

The Formula One Chief Executive dismissed the abuse that Lewis Hamilton received in Spain and Brazil this year, as well as on the internet, as “nonsense”, saying that the events stemmed from sporting dislike of Hamilton rather than real racism.  Read more... (360 words, 1 image, estimated 1:26 mins reading time)

Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone has warned Donington Park owners that he would have no trouble finding an alternative event should their fail to honour their contract.

The Leicestershire secured a ten year contract to host the grand prix earlier this year after negotiations between Bernie Ecclestone and the Silverstone-owning British Racing Drivers Club collapsed.  Read more... (168 words, 1 image, estimated 40 secs reading time)

Formula One Management and ESPN STAR Sports have agreed to renew their relationship for a further five years. The agreement means that ESS, who have televised F1 for nearly two decades, will have exclusive rights to show F1 across multiple platforms (including internet, radio and mobile phone broadcasts) in 24 Asian markets.  Read more... (215 words, estimated 52 secs reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone insists that it is time to put the Max Mosley scandal to bed and welcome the FIA president back to Formula One.

After surviving a vote of confidence and winning his privacy case against the News of the World earlier this year, FIA president Max Mosley has kept a low profile.  Read more... (391 words, 1 image, estimated 1:34 mins reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone is rumoured to be looking at forming a new series, ‘GP3’, possibly as a competitor to Mosley’s recent plans to resurrect Formula 2 as a low-cost racing series.  Read more... (116 words, 1 image, estimated 28 secs reading time)

The image of Formula One’s elite squatting outside a motorhome, whiling away the last hours of daylight over a deck of cards seems almost out of sorts with the glitzy celebrity-driven milieu of the paddock.  Read more... (516 words, estimated 2:04 mins reading time)

Formula One’s commercial rights holder CVC Capital Partners has dismissed speculation, triggered by comments from FIA president Max Mosley, that it is about to sell the sport and replace Bernie Ecclestone.

Rumours have been doing the rounds for several weeks now that the investment company, which owns around 70% of the Formula One Group, is looking to sell-off its shareholding of the sport.  Read more... (366 words, 1 image, estimated 1:28 mins reading time)