BERNIE ECCLESTONE RUMORS
Ecclestone extends US race deadline
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has given organizers of next year's US Grand Prix another week to save the Texas race by proving they have the finances in place.
Ecclestone had wanted organizers to sign a contract by Wednesday, but extended his deadline to next Wednesday when the World Motor Sport Council will ratify the 2012 calendar.
''The deadline hasn't been met, so we are...
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November 30, 2011
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Ecclestone expects Europe to keep 5 F1 races
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone says Europe likely will be left with only five Grand Prixs in the coming years when the sport moves to other countries.
The 81-year-old Ecclestone says in an interview in Marca newspaper that ''Europe is a good place for tourism and not much else. Europe is finished.''
Ecclestone did not say which races would remain, only that...
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November 29, 2011
Texas to F1: We have the money
The owners of Texas' Circuit of the Americas (COTA) slammed Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone's demands for staging the US Grand Prix as "unrealistic and unfeasible," as they made a last-ditch bid Thursday to save next year's race.
The proposed race in Austin had been thrown into serious doubt in recent weeks but COTA issued a statement in which it claimed...
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November 24, 2011
F1: Ecclestone Gives Austin Until Next Week To Save US GP
F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone has given Austin race organizers a deadline to sign a contract on the 2012 United States Grand Prix...
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November 17, 2011
F1 boss: US race threatened by dispute
Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone said Wednesday that the US Grand Prix could be removed from the 2012 calendar because of a contract dispute that led to construction of the Texas racetrack being halted this week.
Ecclestone said the situation must be resolved within the next three weeks, before the 2012 calendar is officially ratified, for the race to go ahead.
Construction on...
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November 16, 2011
2012 US Grand Prix in Doubt as Construction Suspended on Circuit of The Americas
Only days after Formula One supremo Bernie Ecclestone hinted that there may be trouble with preparations for the 2012 US Grand Prix, work has ground to a halt at the Circuit of The Americas track in Austin, Texas.
Ecclestone responded cryptically when quizzed over progress at the circuit,
“Austin? I wouldn't want to put my money down that that will happen. I hope it will...
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November 16, 2011
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November 16, 2011
Malaysian executive buys QPR from Ecclestone
Queens Park Rangers says the Malaysian businessman who runs budget airline AirAsia and Formula One's Team Lotus has completed his takeover of the English Premier League club.
Tony Fernandes has gained a 66 percent stake in the London club by buying out F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone and former Renault F1 team principal Flavio Briatore.
Steel magnate Lakshmi Mittal, the wealthiest...
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August 18, 2011
Ecclestone & Briatore’s West London Reign Of Error Nearly Over
Queens Park Rangers’ first EPL match in years was a double bummer earlier today, a 4-0 home defeat to Bolton Wanderers accentuated by the removal of recent acquisition Kieron Dyer. However, the was far more encouraging news off the pitch — in the long term, anyway — as the Observer reports the duo of Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore are poised to sell their two-thirds...
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August 13, 2011
Qpr Owner Ecclestone Says Premier League Kickoff Must Happen
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QPR owner Bernie Ecclestone says the Premier League kickoff should carry on as scheduled despite the threat of more mob violence across the country.
Ecclestone – whose side host Bolton at Loftus Road this Saturday – insists football must not let the looters win.
The Formula One supremo and billionaire told the Daily...
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August 11, 2011
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August 11, 2011
Notice Bernie Ecclestone didn’t call off the Bahrain GP
That’s right, Bernie knew if he had called off the race that he would lose money but if the Prince (no not the singer or the symbol) called off the race he knew somehow, someway he was still going to get paid! If you notice he started to talk about a cancellation but then changed his tune after he realizing that if he called it off, no payday!
“It is sad that Bahrain...
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February 25, 2011
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February 25, 2011
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