Ecclestone apologises for Hitler remarks

FORMULA One chief Bernie Ecclestone has apologised for praising Adolf Hitler’s ability to “get things done,” comments which prompted a German Jewish group to call for a boycott of the motor sport.

Ecclestone, 78, made the comments in an interview published in The Times of London last weekend.

“I have no complaints about the quote – it is what I said – but it was not what I meant to say,” Ecclestone wrote yesterday in the same paper, an article he opened with the words “First, an apology”.