Bernie Ecclestone plans new championship to leave Max Mosley out in the cold

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Is Bernie Ecclestone really threatening to take Formula 1 out of the FIA?
Published 6/7/2008 by Keith Collantine at F1 Fanatic - The Formula 1 Blog | F1 news, cars, drivers and more
... Two British newspapers today reported that Bernie Ecclestone, fuming over Max Mosley’s success in the FIA vote of confidence earlier this week, now wants to take Formula 1 out of the control of the governing body. Is he serious? Could this lead to Formula 1 splitting in two as CART did in the mid-nineties? Is he not just doing exactly what Mosley said he would in his letter to the FIA last month? According to this morning’s Times and Daily Telegraph Ecclestone, who owns the commercial rights to F1, is looking at ...

F1: strong rumours of split from FIA and manufacturer pullout
Published 6/7/2008 by ljh at Brits on Pole
... The Times: Bernie Ecclestone plans new championship - “Ecclestone, the commercial rights-holder and the most powerful man in Formula One, has repeatedly asked Mosley to stand aside, but, after the FIA’s endorsement of its president at an extraordinary general meeting in Paris on Tuesday, he is thought to have come to the conclusion that nothing is going to shift Mosley and so Formula One itself must move… Sources close to Ecclestone were saying that Williams are now likely to cooperate and ...