Ecclestone slams Ferrari chief

F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone has slammed Ferrari president Luca di Montezemolo for his condemnation of the Singapore Grand Prix. The Italian was scathing about the course and the organization in Singapore, calling it a ‘circus’, but was speaking after the embarrassment of seeing his world championship challenger Felipe Massa drive away from the pits last Sunday with several meters of fuel pipe still attached to his car. Ecclestone condemned di Montezemolo’s quotes as sour grapes, insisting that Ferrari’s mistake could have caused danger for other drivers.

“If the Ferrari president is right about the Singapore Grand Prix being a circus," Ecclestone told The Mail on Sunday, “then we have to be grateful to him for providing the clowns."

“After the weekend Ferrari had, their president should have shut up and kept his head down," he continued.

“If Massa loses the world championship, he will know the team were responsible. He would have destroyed everybody in Singapore if he had kept going."