SINGAPORE (Sept 5): Barely two weeks to go before the Singapore Grand Prix, Formula One finds itself facing a more worrying predicament than even the mosquito-borne Zika virus that has struck the city-state.

Bernie Ecclestone, the 85-year-old supremo at the wheel of F1, might lose control of the multi-billion-dollar empire that he helped build and be booted from the sport even before the Singapore Grand Prix on Sept 16-18.

Amid talks of a US$8.5 billion ($11.5 billion) takeover of F1 by John Malone's NYSE-listed Liberty Media Group, former F1 team owner-turned-pundit Eddie Jordan said in a live television interview that Ecclestone had finished his last race as F1’s chief executive at the Italian Grand Prix on Sunday and was on his way out.

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