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MotoGP’s private equity owners Bridgepoint has hired advisors Lazard on a potential sale, according to reports. Bridgepoint has called on bankers Lazard for a review of Dorna – the Spanish holding company which runs MotoGP and World Superbikes – with a view to sell in 2019.

F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone's legal advisor, Stephen Mullens, has been charged by German authorities investigating bribery allegations.

Bernie Ecclestone has given the first explanation for his $44m 'payment' to disgraced banker Gerhard Gribkowsky.

German banker Gerhard Gribkowsky has been handed an eight-year jail term for crimes including accepting bribes from F1 ringmaster Bernie Ecclestone.

It has been reported that investors in CVC Capital Partners are beginning to get 'worried' by the lack of communication from F1's majority owners over the current 'bribery' scandal rocking the sport

Private equity investor Scott Lanphere is reported to be the latest player in the rumoured F1 bid involving disgraced media giant News Corporation.

There have been further claims and counter-claims in the corruption scandal that has rocked F1 in recent weeks, with suggestions now that the shares sold to CVC Capital Partners in 2006 were not undervalued after all

CVC Capital Partners and the board of F1 holding company Delta Topco have launched their own investigation into the ongoing bribery and corruption scandal surrounding the sale of the sport's commercial rights back in 2006

F1's majority owner CVC Capital Partners has issued a statement to assure that it has 'no knowledge' of the current fraud and corruption scandal involving Gerhard Gribkowsky, the former head of the sport's holding company SLEC

Sir Martin Sorrell, who serves on the board of the firm that owns the commercial rights to F1, has hit out at Bernie Ecclestone over his comments on disgraced F1 team boss Flavio Briatore.

The ten Formula 1 teams are rumoured to be seeking new meetings with the sport's commercial rights-holders after it emerged that a vast proposition of income is being used to service interest payments on debts.

Former Formula One shareholder Lehman Brothers has applied for bankruptcy protection via the American courts following another dramatic twist in the global financial markets.