Williams eyes ‘Olympic’ F1 sale talks
Sir Frank Williams on Friday said he would pay to be a fly on the wall as negotiations to sell formula one heat up. News Corporation and the Ferrari-linked Exor company are interested in buying the...
View ArticlePolitics on pole before Turkey qualifying
A regular FOTA meeting will take place on Sunday Martin Whitmarsh has denied that senior staff belonging to F1′s ‘big four’ teams are set to meet with News Corp officials next week. The formerly secret...
View ArticleEcclestone 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...
View ArticlePowerful 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...
View ArticleRumour – Ecclestone plots to buy back F1
Bernie Ecclestone could be plotting his next move to retain control of his formula one circus. The 80-year-old, who has bought and sold the commercial rights several times since revolutionising the...
View ArticleEcclestone 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...
View ArticleVettel eyes pole record but says Senna was best
Vettel’s Ferrari interest ‘very good’ – Agnelli Sebastian Vettel is likely to break an almost twenty year old formula one record this year. In 1992, Williams’ Nigel Mansell started from the front of...
View ArticleWhitmarsh 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...
View ArticleMurdoch 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...
View ArticleMurdoch’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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