Murdoch and Ecclestone corruption stories temporally coincide once again.I'm not sure if this is part of the 'Noooooo!!' story or if it deserves its own thread but, following on from Ecclestone spending the weekend of the Chinese GP in Germany to provide evidence about the $50m paid to the banker who sold his shares in F1 to CVC, Ecclestone now claims that the payment was the result of blackmail with the banker, Gerhard Gribkowsky, threatening to reveal compromising details about Ecclestone's business dealings if Ecclestone didn't pay up. For some reason it's taken until now for Ecclestone to bring this up.
Is this a concerted move by Rupert Murdoch to get Ecclestone out of the way so he can manipulate a deal with CVC?
Is the Rupert Murdoch connection a red herring?
WTF is going on?
Would we have private pit-driver conversations wire-tapped?