#Bernie Ecclestone

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Bernie Ecclestone

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November 27, 2016 - Abu Dhabi Source: ANDREJ ISAKOVIC/AFP via Getty Images

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Champions united around Bernie Ecclestone Hungaroring, Hungary, August 13 2000 (L-R) Coulthard, Schumacher, Ecclestone, Häkkinen, Barrichello Photo by Paul-Henri Cahier/Getty Images

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What's strange is having a kid at 89

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John Watson on the racers he knew - from Motorsports magazine

Ronnie Peterson:

Ronnie, first of all, was a good friend. He was an exceptionally quick racing driver, and one of his great skills was he could jump into anything and drive it quickly. He wasn't as adept at developing a car. Ronnie's skill was phenomenal car control, balance, natural speed, but most of all he was a genuinely lovely person. Lots of drivers have lost their lives and I've never been upset. But Ronnie's death upset me. I still feel it now.

Jody Scheckter

James Hunt called him Jonathan Livingston Seagull, after a book which is an allegorical fable about a seagull with ambitions beyond flying and scavenging with the flock. I met Jody when he came across in the early 1970s and he was wild. A high level of driver ability. In 1973 at the French GP he and Fittipaldi had a collision. He was a loose cannon then, a little like Riccardo Patrese a few years later. But following Watkins Glen that year he was transformed after being one of the drivers who stopped at the scene of François Cevert's fatal accident. What he saw had a seminal change on his outlook and philosophy of being a racing driver. He said later that it brought home to him that the sport he loved could kill. Jody wasn't someone I had much to do with in the paddock, but I'm not sure he had much to do with anybody.

Bernie Ecclestone

He made a profound impact on me, not necessarily as a team leader, but he's a pragmatic and lateral thinking person. Again, Watkins Glen 1973 and Cevert's accident... a wonderful, beautiful gut lost his life and it felt disrespectful to jump back in the car and go back out. That's what I believed, how I was brought up. And Bernie said, "Get in that car, you're here to race. Whatever happened to François it's over and what you are doing is not going to make any difference." It helped me throughout the rest of my career, when a driver was injured or killed. I was able to erect a kind of barrier around myself. It enabled me to put up a blinder to however awful or ugly it may have been, to get back into the car and race. At Niki's accident at the Nürburgring in 1976, I was one of the early cars through and I had him lying with his head on my thighs, looking into his fave and comforting him as best I could. Then I had to jump back into Mt car and do a Grand Prix. I never gave it a second thought. That was the influence Bernie had on me, to detach emotion from what is your job. If you can't do it, get out. Later I had the same thing with Gilles Villeneuve at Zolder. I saw his body in the catch-fencing. I looked in his eyes and the lights had gone out. I got back in the car, drove back to the pits, told Teddy Mayer and John Hogan, and went for a coffee. Nothing. If a psychologist heard me say that, they would claim there is something wrong with me, to have that high level of detachment. But soilders, firefighters, the police - they need such mechanisms. You have to find what works best for you. That was Bernie's influence on me.

Niki Lauda

The Niki of the 1970s was very driven, very focused and very ambitious. He had a vision of where he wanted to be and how to get there. When he drove for March initially it wasn't a particularly good car, then he jumped ship to BRM and did an extremely good job. Monaco in 1973, he was outstanding. But he saw through Louis Stanley and realised the team was essentially going nowhere. He needed to move on to a better place, and he's done enough to attack Ferrari's interest. He formed relationships with key people in the team who become 'your' people. He did that with Mauro Forghieri and Luca Di Montezemolo and might have won the world title in 1974, but was going through a process of learning how to get there. By 1975, with the car he then had, he had done all his learning.

James Hunt

James was a pure animal, a pure athlete. He turned out to have a lot of skill, probably against many people's expectations. I saw him first in 1973 in the March at Monaco where he did a brilliant job. He was a bit of a contradiction in many respects because he seemed to have all the ability and skill, and a huge amount of intelligence as well which is fundamental. He was also a caged animal that needed to be controlled and some teams, principally McLaren, saw how to do that, holding him back and the lighting the blue touch paper and letting him go. What Teddy Mayer realised in 1976 was, don't let James screw around with the car, just get a good balance and throw rubber at it. James was like a lion trying to eat you alive. Bang, out he'd go and he'd deliver incredible laps. The other thing about James, in spite of his off track behaviour, he was a fit guy who played a lot of sports at very high level as an amateur. He was mercurial in that second half of the 1976 season. OK, he had a very good car in a very good team, but he dragged out every last ounce of performance from that car.

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do i sense a 1st/24th win coming for my man? 🤔

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Australian GP - March 07, 2004

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Ladies and gentlemen, Bernie Ecclestone:

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Puppets of Kamui Kobayashi (top left), Michael Schumacher (top right), Bernie Ecclestone (middle), Jenson Button (bottom left), and Takuma Sato (bottom right) being sold during the 2011 Japanese Grand Prix.

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me reading this like:

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So let’s review:

Bernie Ecclestone told Lewis to retire out of respect to Schumi so he doesn’t break his record. Now he comes out to say he hopes Max breaks the record. The black man should not break the record out of respect to the white man, but another white man (who is always somehow connected to racism in this sport) gets to do it?

This sport is rotten to the core

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Vettel completely happy

World champion Sebastian Vettel says he is "completely happy" at Red Bull Racing, admitting he is not into "myths" like Ferrari or Mercedes right now. The German has been linked with Ferrari several times, but he claims he is perfectly happy at Red Bull because it is providing him with a car to win races. "Let's get this straight. To win races is not easy; to win championships even less so, at whatever team," Vettel told Formula 1's official website. "I feel completely happy at Red Bull. Of course Ferrari and Mercedes do come with a huge legend, but I am not into myth right now. What's important for me is that, when I come from the track and look in the mirror in my hotel room, I want to be able to say, 'Yes, that's me and I am satisfied with what I see.' After Abu Dhabi it feels good to know that I don't have anything to prove to myself any more." Vettel also admitted he is not too worried about his possible future teammates, as he is aware that he needs to beat everybody to be the best.

"In the end I don't waste too many thoughts on who is my team-mate," he said in a joint interview with Formula 1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone "I want to be the best, so I have to beat them all, with the same car or any other. I would never ask my team to get me a teammate to my liking, but I expect two things from whoever has the second cockpit: honesty and respect."

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Discussions dans le paddock de Fuji avant le Grand Prix du Japon 1976 entre Hunt, Lauda, Peterson et Bernie Ecclestone pour décider de prendre ou non le départ sous une pluie battante. Le départ aura bien lieu et consacrera James Hunt Champion du monde après l'abandon de Niki Lauda, qui jugea sa vie plus précieuse que le titre. - source Moto Vitelloni - Wheels n' wings.

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Felipe Massa realizing that he based his attempts on contesting the 2008 championship on what a 92 year old man said in an interview that he doesn't even remember giving

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Bernie Ecclestone stole tens of millions from the UK government - and hence the UK people - every year for eighteen years. Almost half a billion in total. That we know of. His penalty is that he has to pay it back. Along with the interest. Which of course, he's been making on that money all the while in between. Oh, and he has to pay an extra 74k in court costs.

He does zero jail time, because rich old white men don't go to jail. His penalty is therefore effectively zero. Oh, you got caught? Well, after 7 years of trying to claim you didn't get caught, you pay what you owe and not much else.

If I broke into a bank vault and stole 100k, I'd do about twenty years. Even if I did it at night, didn't harm or threaten anyone, I'd do twenty years. The justification being to dissuade other people from trying it.

But rich old white men don't go to jail, so there is zero incentive for every rich old white man not to do the exact same thing. Tax fraud is effectively free, for as long as you can get away with it. I mean, why wouldn't you? If you're rich enough to have that much money, you're obviously already a scumbag, so just carry on doing you.