23/09/2010
NEWS STORY
With the Commonwealth Games in Delhi looking increasingly in doubt, Bernie Ecclestone has said he has no such fears regarding next year's inaugural F1 Grand Prix in India.
What with the state of the athletes' accommodation - said, by some, to be "inhabitable" and "not fit for humans" - collapsing ceilings and bridges, there is every possibility that the Games - due to get underway next week might be cancelled as more and more countries pull out.
However, talking in Singapore, ahead of this weekend's Grand Prix, Ecclestone said he has no such concerns over next year's F1 race which will take place on the outskirts of Delhi.
"It's a different organisation altogether, completely different, so I have no worries at all," he told reporters.
When it was suggested that the organizers of the Games are making a shambles of the event, the Englishman hit back: "The people who, as you say, are making a shambles, are not the people who are dealing with us for the race."
Our man on the spot was unable to see whether the F1 supremo had his fingers crossed as he spoke.