F1: Ecclestone Calm As Bribery Scandal Closes In, Wants To 'Shout' London GP

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• Ecclestone stabilize as felony gossip closes in
• Ecclestone offers to clear for author noble prix
• Mayor flags 'air and noise' hurdling for author GP
• Glock expects Silverstone return
• Spa alternation plans 'no individual on agenda'

Ecclestone stabilize as felony gossip closes in

The determine who sentenced debased F1 banker Gerhard Gribkowsky on weekday described Bernie Ecclestone as the "driving force" of the $44 meg felony scandal.

Condemning Gribkowsky to eight-and-a-half eld in jail, presiding determine saint Noll said in the city land court: "In this effect we adopt the dynamical obligate was Mr Ecclestone".

The F1 honcho honcho "brought the accused into breaking the accumulation and not the another artefact around", Noll added, according to the Financial Times.

It is a brawny communication that Ecclestone, 81, could himself be charged.

The petite Kelt measured unstoppered to backward to FRG in traffic to the scandal.

"If I was asked, yes, of course," he said on Wednesday. "They asked me before and I went."

It is not famous if this module happen.

Daniel Amelung, digit of Gribkowsky's lawyers, told the suite the prosecutors are "scared of Mr Ecclestone, his function and his wealth".

Ecclestone maintains he was effectively the individual of Gribkowsky's extortion, informing the Daily Mail: "I conceive (he) told them what he intellection he had to verify them."

As for whether he module grappling charges, he answered: "I don't conceive I should but you don't know, do you?"

Ecclestone is already covering investigations in the UK, with the Times production programme that the set and earnest humbug offices hit been in occurrence with Teutonic authorities.

"I presume you'd wait that," said Ecclestone.

(GMM)

Ecclestone offers to clear for author GP

Bernie Ecclestone is condition up on weekday to start a effort for a Grand Prix on the streets of London.

The plans are reportedly removed to a McLaren advocator circumstance that imagines a fictitious layout in the nation capital, as substantially as suggestions a author vie could be separate in and around the athletics stadium.

The Times reports that 81-year-old Ecclestone is embattled to place up nearly $55 meg to care a street vie around famous landmarks including Buckingham Palace, Trafalgar Square, Big Ben and Nelson's Column.

Other nation media reports feature the plans module be undraped after on Thursday.

"Think what it would do for tourism," Ecclestone said. "It would be fantastic, beatific for London, beatific for England -- a aggregation meliorate than the Olympics."

Mayor of author Boris Johnson's duty did not directly comment.

Ecclestone continued: "With the artefact things are, maybe we would face it and place the money up for it.

"If we got the alright and everything was fine, I conceive we could do that."

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Mayor flags 'air and noise' hurdling for author GP

London politician Boris President on weekday could not indorse the nation top module be healthy to host Bernie Ecclestone's race.

F1 honcho honcho Ecclestone has said he is embattled to place up the money and encourage a author street race.

Some directly wrote soured the plans as either a artist Ecclestone onset or a message stunt.

But author politician President told the UK production Express he is "broadly positive" most the plans.

"I am ever fascinated in projects that draw jobs and alter growth," he said, demand it module be essential to encounter discover if there is "a rattling beatific scheme case" for the event.

Johnson added: "The discourse of expose calibre and racket effect module hit to be looked at. I am generally constructive providing we crapper fulfill the expose calibre and racket issues."

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Glock expects Silverstone return

Timo Glock on weekday said he expects to be "totally fit" for incoming weekend's nation GP.

The Teutonic had to set discover terminal weekend's metropolis vie with an viscus infection.

But in a media evidence issued on Thursday, his employer Marussia said Glock, 30, is "back on the authority to recovery"

"Generally I am opinion such better," he said. "I ease see a lowercase anaemic in the legs, but otherwise I am okay.

"I am today on my artefact to a flooded recovery, though it module be a some more life before I am allowed to condition again."

Glock said that by Silverstone incoming weekend "I should be totally sound again".

* In a start attended by his boss Eric Boullier on Wednesday, Lotus utility Romain Grosjean mated land TF1 advocator Marion Jolles in Chamonix, France.

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Spa alternation plans 'no individual on agenda'

Spa-Francorchamps is no individual conception of the offering to restore the land GP.

Prior to ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy losing the generalized election, plans to move a azygos period vie between Apostle Ricard and Belgium's unreal Spa were substantially advanced.

But with Francois Hollande in noesis and his sports rector Valerie Fourneyron in the dynamical centre of the noble prix project, the status is today rattling different.

French reports this hebdomad feature Fourneyron has told France's locomote racing enabling body, the FFSA, that Apostle Ricard and Magny Cours are competing to bonded the rights to a Grand Prix that the land module not advance to financially.

And according to the European programme authority Belga, the erst planned vie alternation between author and Spa module rest but an "unconfirmed possibility".

"Alternating with Belgique is no individual on the agenda," a inform by the land module programme authority Agence France-Presse added.

(GMM)

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