Ecclestone meets with Sutil, Bahrain prince in Spain
\nMonday May 23, 2011 06:48:27 AM UTC<\/p>\n
Bernie Ecclestone had meetings with two key people on the sidelines of the weekend’s Spanish grand prix.<\/p>\n
Bild newspaper reports that the F1 chief executive met first with Adrian Sutil.<\/p>\n
Force India’s Sutil is engulfed in a scandal that endangers his entire formula one career, with Renault team co-owner Eric Lux threatening to press criminal charges.<\/p>\n
Bild said Ecclestone summoned Sutil in Barcelona because he “wanted to hear from Adrian the truth about the nightclub incident”.<\/p>\n
Sutil was then photographed shaking 80-year-old Ecclestone’s hand.<\/p>\n
Also in Barcelona at the weekend was Bahrain’s Crown Prince Salman bin Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, according to British newspapers the Telegraph and Guardian.<\/p>\n
He was a guest of McLaren, which is part-owned by a Bahraini state-controlled company, even though the Telegraph’s Tom Cary said the British team “kept their royal visitor under wraps”.<\/p>\n
It emerges that as Ecclestone admitted in Spain that the 2011 calendar could be extended into December to make room for a rescheduled Bahrain race, the 80-year-old Briton had a “brief chat” with the Crown Prince. …source<\/a><\/p>\n