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Why Ross Brawn should run F1

DIETER RENCKEN explains why Formula 1 does not need to look elsewhere to find a successor for Bernie Ecclestone once the 83-year-old is no longer in control

One of the by-products of the Constantin Media trial in London's High Court - in which, among others, Bernie Ecclestone stands accused of underselling Formula 1's commercial rights to current majority owner CVC Capital Partners - is that the investment fund's co-founder Donald Mackenzie was unequivocal about the F1 tsar's fate should he in any way be linked to impropriety.

Last year, Gerhard Gribkowsky, the former risk officer of BayernLB, the Bavarian state-owned financial institution which inherited a 47.2 per cent shareholding of the rights after Kirch Media plunged into financial distress, pleaded guilty to accepting $44 million in bribes from Ecclestone and his family trust Bambino.

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