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F1 must not race behind pay-wall – Virgin’s Lowdon
F1 must remain on free-to-air television, Virgin sporting director Graeme Lowdon insists. With News Corporation looking into buying the sport’s commercial rights, Bernie Ecclestone said he is sceptical...
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Ecclestone hints at deadline extension for Bahrain
Bernie Ecclestone on Thursday sounded willing to extend Bahrain’s deadline for the rescheduling of its 2011 grand prix. Due to the civil unrest in the island Kingdom, the season opener at Sakhir was...
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EC would block Murdoch takeover – Ecclestone
“CVC hasn’t bothered to reply to them” Bernie Ecclestone on Sunday said the European Commission would stand in the way of a sale of F1′s commercial rights to media mogul Rupert Murdoch. The F1 chief...
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Ferrari-linked company confirms F1 takeover interest
CVC responded by insisting the potential takeover consortium knows F1 is “not currently for sale”. F1′s owner CVC Capital Partners has confirmed that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation and the...
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Big teams schedule meeting on F1 future
The governing Concorde agreement expires at the end of next year F1′s biggest teams have scheduled a meeting in Stuttgart next weekend to discuss the future of the sport, according to reports. The news...
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Paddock ‘nervous’ as F1 politics returns – Boullier
The buying price of EUR 8 billion could stir CVC’s interest in agreeing to sell. After a prolonged period of relative peace and unity, the spectre of power politics is returning to the formula one...
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Ecclestone scoffs at threats to F1 status quo
Bernie Ecclestone scoffed in Turkey when faced with the apparent challenges to the status quo in formula one. Not only is it suggested News Corp is preparing a bid to buy the commercial rights, a...
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Mosley confirms opposition to News Corp interest
FIA president Jean Todt confirmed on Sunday that the governing body has the right to veto a sale. Bernie Ecclestone reverted to his typical humour and image of invincibility when asked in Turkey if he...
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Powerful backer to join F1 buyout consortium – report
A consortium planning to bid for ownership of formula one has reportedly gained a powerful backer. News Corp and the Fiat shareholder Exor had already confirmed they are considering making an offer to...
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Marko plays down Montezemolo’s breakaway talk
“In my opinion, the situation is nowhere near as bad as it looks” – Marko Helmut Marko has played down Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo’s threat that formula one could be headed for a split from...
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Ecclestone admits BBC ‘facing problems’
The BBC warned Bernie Ecclestone about “facing problems”, the F1 chief executive has admitted. His comments follow reports this week that the British broadcaster’s highly respected free-to-air live...
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News of the World shutting down
The British newspaper News of the World is shutting down. The scandal-rag is famous in F1 circles for exposing Max Mosley’s encounter with five prostitutes, for which the former FIA president won legal...
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Ecclestone admits interest in buying back F1
Bernie Ecclestone has admitted he is interested in buying back formula one. The F1 chief executive currently works for the sport’s majority owner CVC, whilst retaining a small percentage of the...
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Whitmarsh tips News Corp to survive scandal
Martin Whitmarsh on Friday tipped News Corporation to survive its current turmoil. As the phone hacking scandal worsened, media magnate Rupert Murdoch pulled the plug on News’ UK tabloid News of the...
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F1 people might reject Murdoch bid now – Ecclestone
The News Corporation scandal might have damaged the Murdochs’ plans to take over formula one. That is the claim of F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who said he feels “sorry” for Rupert Murdoch...
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Whitmarsh confirms teams eyeing F1 stake
Martin Whitmarsh has confirmed a move by formula one teams to buy a stake in formula one. According to The Independent newspaper, the McLaren and FOTA chief confirmed that DC Advisory Partners has been...
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Murdoch has lost interest in F1 – Ecclestone
Bernie Ecclestone thinks News Corp has lost interest in buying formula one. Before the phone-hacking scandal stepped into a high gear earlier this year, the Rupert Murdoch-led media conglomerate and...
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Murdoch’s F1 takeover bid ‘still alive’– report
News Corp and Exor refused to comment, as did CVC. Rupert Murdoch’s interest in bidding to buy formula one might not be dead, according to the financial news agency Bloomberg. Amid the News of the...
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F1 on free TV could end in Britain – Ecclestone
Free-to-air television coverage of formula one could end in Britain, chief executive Bernie Ecclestone has hinted. His comments follow the announcement that Rupert Murdoch’s pay-channel Sky Italia will...
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Murdoch set for F1 meetings in Abu Dhabi
Media mogul James Murdoch is in Abu Dhabi for talks with formula one chiefs, the Mirror newspaper reports. The report said figures from top teatms McLaren, Ferrari, Red Bull and Mercedes are set to...
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