All Posts Tagged With: "Bernie Ecclestone"

Bernie Ecclestone has defended Vettel’s Malaysian Grand Prix behaviour and has said that he doesn’t think Red Bull will suspend the German driver for the Chinese Grand Prix.  Read more... (228 words, estimated 55 secs reading time)

It is possible Marussia will be notably missing from next weekend’s coverage of the 2013 season opener. That is because Bernie Ecclestone is yet to agree a new Concorde Agreement with the backmarker team.  Read more... (137 words, estimated 33 secs reading time)

A new deal for the Canadian grand prix could be delayed, as organisers discover the renovation of the ageing Circuit Gilles Villeneuve will cost more than expected.

Bernie Ecclestone has said he is happy to ink a new long-term deal for the Montreal race, so long as the track is brought up to standard with some renovations.  Read more... (117 words, estimated 28 secs reading time)

F1 powerbrokers Bernie Ecclestone and Jean Todt are set to meet on Thursday, according to Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport. The topic? The unsigned 2013 Concorde Agreement.

Although F1 chief executive Ecclestone has inked bilateral financial agreements with all the teams, the signatures are still missing on the crucial pact between the teams, the commercial rights holder, and the FIA.  Read more... (182 words, estimated 44 secs reading time)

It is “100 per cent” certain this year’s Bahrain grand prix is going ahead, according to Bernie Ecclestone.

However, violence has kicked off once again in the island Kingdom, as thousands of anti-government protesters mark the two-year anniversary of the so-called ‘Arab Spring’.  Read more... (119 words, estimated 29 secs reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone has summoned the chiefs of F1′s smallest teams to his London headquarters.

Germany’s Auto Motor und Sport said representatives of Marussia, Caterham, Force India, Sauber and Toro Rosso have been invited to the meeting on Thursday.  Read more... (164 words, estimated 39 secs reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone has confirmed that F1′s 2013 schedule will feature only 19 rounds.

Until New Jersey’s demise, this year’s calendar was set to have twenty grands prix.

Ecclestone, the F1 chief executive, opened up the twentieth slot to a potential new European venue, but he said on Tuesday that he could not now fill it “at this late stage”.  Read more... (185 words, estimated 44 secs reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone is tipped to sign up the airline Emirates as a major F1 sponsor on a visit to Dubai on Tuesday.

The Financial Times said the five year deal is worth “about $200m”, making it “one of the biggest” in motor sport.  Read more... (93 words, estimated 22 secs reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone on Monday was on the spot at Sochi, the scene of next year’s inaugural Russian grand prix.

There had been some doubt about whether the resort city would host its first ever formula one race on schedule, following reports construction had stopped.  Read more... (140 words, estimated 34 secs reading time)

Bernie Ecclestone is banned from using Twitter.

Former Olympic chief Michael Payne now works as the F1 chief executive’s special advisor.

France’s RMC Sport quotes him as saying: “I suggested to him (Ecclestone) that he should be on Twitter.

“But he told me that his lawyers have forbidden him, fearing a catastrophe,” Payne laughed.  Read more... (56 words, estimated 13 secs reading time)