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From dead in the water to fit as a fiddle in a single stroke of a pen, Circuit of The Americas management says the track and its United States Grand Prix are now a "go" for 2012. More »
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The Circuit of the Americas in Austin agreed to bump its inaugural Formula One grand prix to 2013 in light of recent financial troubles and F1 Muppet-master Bernie Ecclestone's promise/threat to hold the race back until he gets his money. More »
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The US Grand Prix in Austin has less than three weeks to sort out financial troubles or else it will be absolutely cancelled. Speed's reporting that the race contract is gone, $25 million has dried up, and the track can't get a letter of credit. Prospects look grim. More »
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If you've been thinking that the idea of Formula 1 coming back to America a year from now at a world-class circuit near Austin, Texas, was too good to be true, F1 maestro Bernie Ecclestone says your concern may be justified. Update! More »
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Europeans — especially the Brits — seem just that much more evolved with celebutante decadence than us Yanks. In place of Paris Hilton or Kim Kardashian, they get F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone's daughter Tamara exposing herself while rolling about alluringly on a bed of £50 notes, wearing a pair of heels that will give Max Mosley painfully sweet dreams for some time to come. More »
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It never occurred to me that I should follow the Twitter account of hot F1 spawn arm-candy Tamara Ecclestone until the folks at the unaffiliated and way more European AutoBlog.gr pointed out she was posting pics of herself running around Greece. More »
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As Top Gear continues filming for its new season, the BBC gave a sneak peek this weekend showing the trio tooling around Monaco in those hot hatchbacks. Why do Jeremy Clarkson and Formula 1 chief Bernie Ecclestone look like they're on a date? More »
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After a three-week spring break, Formula One returned to within 25 miles of its European heartland to see if there’s anyone stopping Red Bull this year. At Istanbul Park’s swan song Grand Prix, many tried. Warning: spoilers. More »
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It always rains in Malaysia. It didn’t rain in Malaysia yesterday. Never underequipped when it comes to show biz, Formula One bridged the precipitation gap with a flying Russian (above), a jinxed Brit, and an old rivalry rekindled. A fun race—for second place. Warning: spoilers. More »
]]> http://jalopnik.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5790886&view=rss&microfeed=true The Crown Prince of Bahrain informed Bernie Ecclestone today that the season-opening F1 race in that country will be canceled "to focus on immediate issues of national interest." And by "issues of national interest" they mean shooting at funeral processions. More »
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Thugs may relieve Bernie Ecclestone of his watch but F1's octagenarian boss will always get the last laugh. The watch violently pilfered was a Hublot, whose new ad carries the tagline: "See what people will do for a Hublot." More »
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F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone got knocked around worse than Max Mosley at a five-hooker Nazi-themed sex orgy while being mugged last week. By the way, Bernie's 80 years old. Fabiana Flosi, his Brazilian model girlfriend? 31. Just sayin'... [The Sun] More »
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F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone was mugged this Wednesday, after complaining muggers look for people who are "a bit soft and simple." Also, they look for people carrying around $314,000 in jewelry, Scrooge McDuck. (Hat tip to Tadashi!) [AP/ESPN] More »
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The Red Bull Racing team had some fun with F1 emperor Bernie Ecclestone on his 80th birthday, giving him a walker tricked out with everything he'd need, including buttons for "nurse," "power," "money" and "tea." More »
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Formula 1 booked journalists and even teams into Korea's famous "love hotel" rooms for this weekend's Korean Grand Prix. Some are complaining of used condoms under their beds and dildo-vending machines. More »
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We already told you the United States Grand Prix move to Texas is all about the money. Except now we've learned the $25 million in taxpayer dollars supposedly going to local governments is actually going straight into Formula 1's pockets. More »
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After reading Matt Hardigree's excellent look into the origins of the next U.S. Grand Prix, Wired.com's Chuck Squatriglia penned a counterpoint, arguing that the land where everything is big makes perfect sense. Tomato, tomahto. [Wired] More »
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Despite New York possessing the demographics, infrastructure, history and desire to support a stateside return, Formula 1 announced this week the next U.S. Grand Prix is headed to Texas. Here's how — and why — New York get screwed. More »
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An officially sanctioned F1 documentary will omit Max Mosley's five-hooker Nazi sex orgy, focusing instead on racing between 1968 and 1982 when the sport was still exciting. It's being described as "a big action movie." More »
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Speedhunters has a great feature with tons of period photos on Bernie Ecclestone’s years as team principal of Brabham, where he was responsible for giving the green light to Gordon Murray’s maddest: the Fan Car. More »
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Formula One’s overlord has teamed up with a Luxembourg private investment company to submit a bid to GM to buy Saab. But does the General think the bid's credible? More »
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The BT46B—also known as the Fan Car—was a cunning Gordon Murray racer, designed to one-up the dominant Lotus 79 in the 1978 Formula One season. More »
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Last year it was Max Mosley with a whip, this year F1 owner Bernie Ecclestone's card depicts Flavio Briatore trying to blow up Mosley's boat. Get it? It's funny because they're all awful people. [WCF] More »
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During the weekend of the Hungarian Grand Prix, The New York Times’s F1 correspondent Brad Spurgeon conducted a fascinating interview with Bernie Ecclestone, the man who rules the racing series. More »
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BMW has been active in Formula One since 1982, when they supplied an absolutely bollocks engine to Bernie Ecclestone's Brabham team. Now that they're calling it quits, let's take a look back at their 27 years in the sport. More »
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Formula One made its mid-season stop at the rain-soaked Nürburgring. With eight races down and eight to go, the German GP was yet again a battle between Brawn and Red Bull. Spoilers ahead! More »
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Perhaps hoping to underscore why he gets along so well with Max Mosley, F1 Boss Bernie Ecclestone told The Times he doesn't like democracy and believes Hitler, Saddam Hussein and the Taliban were doing a good job. More »
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The bough has apparently broken: as we head into what are perhaps the last hours of Formula One as we know it, the teams and the FIA have yet to reach a compromise. More »
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F1 Chief Bernie Ecclestone has some advice for his teams: "If they come in here with a gun and hold it to my head, they had better be sure they can fucking pull the trigger." More »
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A scan of the now-infamous Bernie Ecclestone Max Mosley Whipping Christmas Card has hit the web and it's worse than we could have predicted. Also, team Toyota appears to be enjoying it. [F1Fanatic] More »
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Always controversial F1 owner Bernie Ecclestone's holiday card depicts a cartoon of F1's even more controversial rulemeister Max Mosley whipping F1 team members, with Bernie brandishing band-aids for their red rear ends. Seriously? Yes. More »
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We don't know how it's possible that Tamara Ecclestone is even mildly related to her father Bernie, the boss of F1 and general all-around ugly guy. Despite our suspicions on her true paternity, she's posed draped only in a checkered flag for PETA's "I would rather go naked than wear fur" campaign. These images, published in this month's English tabloid "Hello!" are the latest in a campaign that's seen celebs like Pamela Anderson and Eva Mendes bare most for the cause. We'd be much more swayed by their arguments if PETA wasn't doing bonkers stuff like suggesting Ben & Jerry's switch to human milk in their ice cream recipes. Crazy hippies. More »
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According to The Times, Bernie Ecclestone warned Max Mosley, "that people had been hired to discredit him and that they had been given an unlimited budget to do so." The paper's information comes from a corporate spy who now feels remorse for trying to help the former Fascist Party member avoid the plot against him. More »
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With the recent departure of the Super Aguri Honda team, some are stopping to take a look at what the the Formula One circus has become. After all, many of the rule changes in the past few seasons were made with the justification of lowering operating costs and allowing smaller teams to be more competitive. So what does F1 really look like when you follow the money trail? [SPEEDtv] More »
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The latest update in the Max Mosley Nazi orgy sex video scandal is the FIA has set a date of June 3rd for a General Assembly meeting of the FIA Senate, in which there is expected to be a vote of no confidence in Mosley. But to be fair, we kind of expected that. What we didn't expect was that the High Court of London would refuse Mosley's injunction against gossip rag News of the World. The injunction saw the removal of the sex video of Mosley engaging in various acts with five prostitutes, but now that the injunction has been refused NotW has restored the video and reports visits to their web site have increased 600%. Well, we could have told them a Nazi sex orgy video starring a Formula 1 chief would be good for traffic. So, better question is what the new video shows us. Well, it's not so much what we can see as it is what we can hear. More »
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It's been a rough one for Max Mosley this week, though Mosley likes it that way, usually. The FIA president, now infamous for his alleged Nazi-stlye sex orgy, has rejected calls for his dismissal, despite automakers and the Royal Family of Bahrain expressing their serious concerns. Though Bernie Ecclestone stands by Mosley for now, things have taken an even worse turn with two major European organizations calling for his removal. More »
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The Royal Family of Bahrain, which is hosting the Bahrain Grand Prix this weekend, has let it be known that they'd rather not have Max Mosley and his band of death camp-simulating whores come to the big race, according to Bernie Ecclestone. The reason they're giving? They're not interested in having media attention shifted away from the race and on to the Nazi sex, which is a reasonable complaint. Though some are calling for Mosley's head, he's still got Ecclestone's support, which is all he needs for now. [BBC Sport] More »
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Though participation in a Nazi-style sex orgy would normally cost someone their job, F1 Chief Bernie Ecclestone is standing by his man, FIA president Max Mosley. The claims of Mosley participating in simulated Nazi-style death camp sex with prostitutes are supported with video, though it appears that's not full confirmation. According to Mr. Ecclestone, "I find it difficult to believe. It's his business but it sounds to me like a set up. Has he in any way damaged F1? No." On the first part, we wonder how one sets someone up for that sort of sex if someone doesn't like that kind of thing. On the second part, that's probably a truer assessment of F1 than Ecclestone intended. More »
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Those planning on attending the Australian Gran Prix this year better enjoy it, as there's some risk that it will be one of the last. According to Bernie Ecclestone, F1's answer to Darth Sidious, unless the race wants to become a night race like the Singapore Gran Prix (which ain't cheap) it might not exist past 2010. The reason is that Ecclestone claims there isn't enough money in the event if it isn't held in the nighttime, which is better for European audiences many time zones away. Of course, this could all just be Bernie trying to scare up a little more support out of the local government. Racing is business, after all is said and done. [AFP via Google] More »
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