FOM Chief Bernie Ecclestone has made a few comments over the weekend that have left a bad taste in many people’s mouths, the 78 year old claiming that Adolf Hitler, the man responsible for tens of thousands of deaths in Nazi Germany during World War two, ‘got things’ done’, a statement that has leaders of Jewish Congress calling for his resignation from Formula One’s top role.

“In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose, but apart from the fact that Hitler got taken away and persuaded to do things that I have no idea whether he wanted to do or not, he was in the way that he could command a lot of people able to get things done,” he told the Times when asked about his favourite historical dictator. “In the end he got lost so he wasn’t a very good dictator. Either he knew what was going on and insisted, or he just went along with it — either way he wasn’t a dictator.”

Ecclestone was also speaking about the dictator comments made about his long time friend and FIA President Max Mosley by FOTA in their threat to walk away from Formula One and start their own championship, something that was averted last week, before Mosley started screaming for an apology that is....

“If you have a look at a democracy it hasn’t done a lot of good for many countries — including this one. I like people who make up their minds. If you have to keep referring to your grandmother before you do anything I think that’s dumb. I make decisions, sometimes wrong, sometimes right — so long as you get more things right than wrong then that’s OK.”

Thanks to his Hitler comments, the World Jewish Congress is calling for his resignation with their President, Ronald Lauder, stating that Ecclestone is not fit to serve as head of the pinnacle of Motorsport and has called on the teams, drivers and circuits to cease working with him so that his empire will eventually crumble.