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F1 seeks distance from Ecclestone after his claim he would ‘take bullet’ for Putin

Posted on June 30, 2022 by Admin

Former F1 chief calls Russian president ‘first-class person’ in GMB interview and blames war on Zelenskiy

Russia-Ukraine war: latest updates

Formula One has sought to distance itself from remarks made by its former chief executive Bernie Ecclestone, who said he would “take a bullet” for the Russian president, Vladimir Putin, and described him as “a first-class person”.

Ecclestone, who reportedly has been friends with Putin since the introduction of the Russian Grand Prix in 2014, said Russia’s invasion of Ukraine could have been avoided if the latter’s president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, had done more.

Bernie Ecclestone says black people are often ‘more racist’ than white people

Posted on June 26, 2020 by Admin

Former F1 chief says the sport is ‘too busy’ to deal with racism
Ecclestone also questions Lewis Hamilton’s experiences

Bernie Ecclestone has claimed black people are “more racist” than white people and said Formula One has been “too busy” to deal with racism in an astonishing television interview.

The former chief executive of Formula One and a name synonymous with the sport said in an exchange with CNN that racism “makes me so upset”. He also said he did not think Lewis Hamilton’s experiences of racism had affected the driver. Hamilton, the six-times world champion, recently said he had felt the “stigma of racism” throughout his F1 career.