Bernie Ecclestone sells up

Bernie Ecclestone sells up

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BunkMoreland

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22 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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His car collection anyway wink

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The 69-car collection includes Ferraris raced by world champions such as Mike Hawthorn, Niki Lauda, and Michael Schumacher, Brabhams raced by Nelson Piquet, Carlos Pace and Lauda, as well as the one-off Brabham-Alfa Romeo BT46B ‘fan car’, which raced only once, winning the Swedish Grand Prix at Anderstorp in 1978.


https://www.msn.com/en-gb/cars/news/bernie-ecclest...



Sale is being handled by Tom Hartley Jnr. So expect to see his social media awash with this over the coming weeks.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DC7NGvRubxy/




Rumdoodle

1,275 posts

35 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Fabulous. Finishing off as he began - flogging old motors.

FourWheelDrift

90,933 posts

299 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Is the green car centre of the photo the Connaught-Alta he tried to qualifying for the 1958 Silverstone GP?

Rumdoodle

1,275 posts

35 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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FourWheelDrift said:
Is the green car centre of the photo the Connaught-Alta he tried to qualifying for the 1958 Silverstone GP?
Thin Wall Special, isn't it?

2 GKC

2,172 posts

120 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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That’ll pay for Hartley’s new dealership. That lot always strike me as complete tools but junior seems to have a good relationship with the F1 crowd

Bobtherallyfan

1,418 posts

93 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Guess he had to find a bit of small change to pay his tax bill.

R6tty

704 posts

30 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Wasn't he a bank robber?

swisstoni

19,841 posts

294 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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He must be 150 by now surely?

richhead

2,509 posts

26 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Rumdoodle said:
Fabulous. Finishing off as he began - flogging old motors.
Very good

Not Ideal

2,989 posts

203 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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2 GKC said:
That’ll pay for Hartley’s new dealership. That lot always strike me as complete tools but junior seems to have a good relationship with the F1 crowd
As I understand it Bernie has always been underwriter of Jnr's business. i.e. Bernie fronts the cash for buying the stock and takes x of the profits.

LotusOmega375D

8,700 posts

168 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Why so little written about the two pre-war Silver Arrows? I think W125 Mercedes and C-Type Auto Union. Surely they must be the most valuable cars in the collection, or are they replicas?

350Matt

3,821 posts

294 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Bernie will live forever

Satan is too afraid to come and claim him

Rumdoodle

1,275 posts

35 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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LotusOmega375D said:
Why so little written about the two pre-war Silver Arrows? I think W125 Mercedes and C-Type Auto Union. Surely they must be the most valuable cars in the collection, or are they replicas?
Are they the Wheatcroft cars? In which case, the Auto Union may be the one Wheatcroft had built, but the Merc would be genuine, I think.

Bonefish Blues

31,847 posts

238 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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350Matt said:
Bernie will live forever

Satan is too afraid to come and claim him
He's got dirt on the devil too, I guess.

rallycross

13,525 posts

252 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Some kind of tax avoidance manoeuvre ?

Nick Forest

275 posts

98 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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rallycross said:
Some kind of tax avoidance manoeuvre ?
Unlikely…he’s been hit with a heavy backdated tax bill of £652m so this sale may be going towards paying that off.

Wacky Racer

39,750 posts

262 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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"Why did you marry 5ft 2" Bernie Ecclestone?"

"He's 6ft 5" when he stands on his wallet" biggrin







Seriously, big fan of Tom Jnr, his dad could learn a lot from him.

BunkMoreland

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2,019 posts

22 months

Sunday 1st December 2024
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Not Ideal said:
2 GKC said:
That’ll pay for Hartley’s new dealership. That lot always strike me as complete tools but junior seems to have a good relationship with the F1 crowd
As I understand it Bernie has always been underwriter of Jnr's business. i.e. Bernie fronts the cash for buying the stock and takes x of the profits.
I didn't know that.

Explains why he sold Newey his F1 GTR in the past. Has done business with Vettel iirc. Has been involved with interesting F1 cars as well. And had a tour with Zac Brown a while ago

IMI A

9,850 posts

216 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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Ecclestone has financed Tom Hartley’s business for years. What a fantastic motorsport collection. Probably one of the best in the world if not the best. Great gig for jnr. Having said that those cars would fetch more money at a high end auction and set records as there are number of collectors who would pay money no object to own some of those iconic race cars with the racing provenance they have. I’m not even into motorsport and I know who drove some of those cars. Fangio, Villneuve and Schumacher’s thoroughbred steeds to name a few of the drivers.

DeejRC

7,572 posts

97 months

Monday 2nd December 2024
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Thinwall Special and nobody wants to talk about it.
Says a lot about PH these days frown

But then the F1 forum demonstrated on a regular basis for years that they didn’t get Bernie.