Longtime Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone, pled guilty to fraud and was handed a suspended prison sentence of 17 months after the 92-year-old Ecclestone did not divulge the existence of more than $400 million held in a trust in Singapore when questioned by British tax authorities in 2015. Ecclestone has agreed to repay more than […]
Bernie Ecclestone’s fraud trial – for his failure to declare $460 million in overseas assets from a trust based in Singapore – has been set for October 2023 by British courts. The 91-year-old former boss of Formula One boss has been charged with a single count of fraud by false representation. Ecclestone’s assets stem from […]
Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone has been accused of fraud brought after an investigation by the UK’s Revenue and Customs. Ecclestone is accused of fraud by false representation after allegedly failing to declare the existence of a trust in Singapore worth $650 million between 2013-2016. Ecclestone has pleaded not guilty to the charge Ecclestone […]
Former Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone opened his mouth again and – as usual – what emerged was not good. In a recent interview on CNN International, the 89-year-old Ecclestone was asked about whether current Mercedes driver and only Black man in the top level of the sport, Lewis Hamilton’s creation of his Hamilton Commission […]
Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton was AutoSportsNation’s 2018 in the Bernie Ecclestone Doofus Moment Award competition, narrowly defeating a game effort from Red Bull’s Max Verstappen – but to prove he was not done being a doofus in 2018, Hamilton gave a bonus performance at the recent BBC Sports Personality of the Year event where he proceeded […]
The 2017 Russian Grand Prix is in the books and Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas won his first-ever Grand Prix, edging out Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel for the victory with Vettel’s teammate, Kimi Raikkonen taking a distant third to finish out the podium. After all was said and done, the race essentially boiled down to a single maneuver […]
Interlagos – the site of the most recent Brazilian Grand Prix – is in the financial crosshairs of former Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone. According to Joao Doria – the mayor of Sao Paulo – Ecclestone is expected to make a bid to purchase the track. The reason it is being sold in the first […]
Liberty Media, new owners of Formula One, have officially granted the longtime wishes of any genuine F1 racing fan and officially canned crusty barnacle and former – that’s right, former – F1 chief, Bernie Ecclestone and replaced him with Chase Carey as the new F1 chairman. Technically, Liberty forced Ecclestone to resign and Bernie was […]
Malaysia has already indicated that they will discontinue hosting Formula One races after the 2018 season due to declining revenues with Singapore indicating that, they too, will follow suit. Formula One chief crusty barnacle Bernie Ecclestone has indicated in a recent interview with a German motoring publication that Singapore was not going to extend its […]
The good news in Formula One this week was supposed to be that Ross Brawn would be replacing Bernie Ecclestone as the new man in charge of the sport. The double bad news, alas, is that not only is Ecclestone, the current chief crusty barnacle in charge, is still going to be lingering around the […]
Petra Stunt, the daughter of Formula One chief crusty barnacle, Bernie Ecclestone, has officially put up her Beverly Hills mansion dubbed Candyland for sale – for the whopping bargain basement price of $200 million. Stunt purchased the sprawling mansion – it is larger than the White House – in 2011 for a mere $85 million, […]
The good news? Formula One has new owners. The bad news? Bernie Ecclestone appears to be staying. Formula One was officially purchased by Liberty Media [and, essentially, its owner, John Malone]. Liberty [which also owns Major League Baseball team, Atlanta raves] will be purchasing 18.7% initially [for 4.4 billion American dollars] in what will eventually […]
Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and Formula One have signed an agreement with legendary race circuit Imola to host a Formula One race but it has the look of being more of a negotiating ploy as Monza officials claim the Italian Grand Prix is still likely to remain at their track in the near future. […]
The 2016 Russian Grand Prix is in the books and it was alternately interesting and mundane as Mercedes collected another ho-hum 1-2 finish but not before some early fireworks where Red Bull’s Daniil Kvyat was once again responsible for four-time champion Sebastian Vettel’s early exit from the race – thus clearing a free and easy […]
First it was Renault, now it is Ferrari’s turn to threaten quitting Formula One racing. In Ferrari’s case, it is in response to the possibility that F1 chief crusty barnacle Bernie Ecclestone will be in charge [along with FIA president Jean Todt] of uncontested rule changes for the 2017 racing season – specifically, small budget […]
Whether or not Formula One racing will return to Texas for the 2016 season remains to be seen as the state of Texas’ bean counters have rearranged their beans and reduced the contribution the state will make to staging the race from $25 million down to $19.5 million for next year. This will have the […]
Bernie Ecclestone, currently the chief barnacle-encrusted leader of what has become Formula One, has said that the racing series could be sold as early as this year to one of what he says are three interested parties. One of those interested parties is reported to be Stephen Ross, a real estate tycoon [his company owns […]
An already crowded 2016 Formula One calendar with 21 races could get another after Turkish officials met with Formula One chief Bernie Ecclestone and announced that – pending governmental elections on November 1, 2015 and government approval – Turkey could be the host to a 22nd race next year. Turkey previously hosted a grand prix […]
The official 2015 ASN Driver Rankings have been updated to reflect the 2015 Italian Grand Prix – which we are calling the Save Monza From Bernie Grand Prix [for the obvious reasons]. The Save Monza From Bernie Grand Prix is held at, of course, the famed Monza track in Italy which Formula One chief crusty […]
To absolutely nobody’s surprise, chief Formula One crusty barnacle, Bernie Ecclestone, backed Pirelli’s version of blaming track debris, curb-hitting and Ferrari’s risk-taking strategy for Sebastian Vettel’s Belgian blowout at Spa-Francorchamps last month. Ecclestone, who was behind the decision to establish Pirelli as the tire manufacturer, also supported the F1 rules which demand that Pirelli provide […]