Bernie Ecclestone has moved from an uneasy silence about Mosley in the immediate weeks after the scandal broke over his sadomasochistic orgy with prostitutes to calling on his friend to stand down as FIA president to giving him his full backing.
And not only that. Ecclestone claimed yesterday that he had joined the chorus of voices calling on Mosley to resign only because those around him wanted him to do so. These will have included many of the Formula One teams, plus members of the board of CVC Capital Partners, which jointly owns Formula One with Ecclestone and was determined at one stage that Mosley should not continue.
“I thought and was told it would (cost the sport) but people have come to the conclusion that whatever happened with Max was Max and it has nothing to do with anything else,” Ecclestone said.
“I don’t think they care any more, people forget all these things. At the time it was a shock, if it had happened to other people it probably wouldn’t have been a shock.
“For a short period I said he should resign because I had so much pressure from people to say he should resign. In a lot of ways, at the time I wished he had done. Now I don’t see why he should.
“Max works and does the best he can for the sport, for sure 100 percent,” added Ecclestone. “All these people say they don’t want to meet Max and don’t want to do this or that…that’s all going to disappear.”
“I will welcome him back,” he said. “He should come back and he should carry on like he’s normally carried on.”
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