Bernie Ecclestone, the previous F1 boss has made a dramatic U-turn over his earlier controversial feedback about ‘taking a bullet for Putin’.
Controversial former F1 chief Bernie Ecclestone in the present day, Saturday, July 9, made an enormous U-turn over his feedback made throughout an interview with GMB in June. He had described Vladimir Putin as a “first-class and smart particular person”, going so far as to say he would ‘take a bullet for him’.
In the identical programme, Ecclestone additionally made enjoyable of Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, calling him a “comic”. He additionally claimed that the brutal actions being carried out by Putin’s army weren’t “intentional”.
As reported by The Solar, talking in the present day with Sky Sports activities Information, the 91-year-old made an apology: “I believe typically individuals come out and say issues or do issues with out actually an excessive amount of pondering. In all probability I did the identical. I can perceive individuals pondering I’m defending what he’s completed in Ukraine, which I don’t. I used to be introduced up throughout the conflict, the final conflict, so I do know what it’s like”.
“So I really feel sorry for the individuals in Ukraine having to undergo for one thing they haven’t completed. They’ve completed nothing unsuitable. They didn’t begin something. They wish to get on with their lives. They need the children to go to high school and try to go to work and earn a residing to maintain the household going”, he continued.
He added: “In order that they don’t should must undergo. It’s not good for anyone. I can’t see anyone getting something out of this and I believe they need to get collectively and get an settlement. And I’m sorry if something I’ve stated has upset anyone as a result of it actually wasn’t supposed”, though stopping wanting criticising the Russian president.
A press release was launched by F1 following Ecclestone’s weird GMB interview, which learn: “The feedback made by Bernie Ecclestone are his private views and are in very stark distinction to the place of the trendy values of our sport”.
Throughout an interview with Piers Morgan on TalkTV, the previous F1 supremo was much more outspoken: “I stand behind him. So far as I’m involved he’s a great man”, he instructed @PiersUncensored:
“These items occur in conflict… after a conflict everybody’s good associates.”
Bernie Ecclestone compares Putin’s conflict on Ukraine to “a boxing match” telling Piers Morgan, “after the boxing match, everyone’s loving one another.”@piersmorgan | @TalkTV | #piersuncensored pic.twitter.com/q3BuJg2hqa
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) June 30, 2022
“Why would you say that you’d nonetheless take a bullet for Vladimir Putin, on condition that he is placing bullets into hundreds of harmless individuals’s heads?”@piersmorgan asks Bernie Ecclestone the query we have all been questioning since his feedback on GMB this morning.@TalkTV pic.twitter.com/ufhhKYYI2j
— Piers Morgan Uncensored (@PiersUncensored) June 30, 2022
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