Bernie Ecclestone sinks to new low....

[JonChalk]

.....although you have to give him credit for helping us all understand the English language better, by providing real world, practical examples of less-well used words such as;
“egregious disingenuity”,
and
“duplicitous mendacity”

https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ecclestone-call...

[JonChalk]

Crafty_ said:

CVC owned F1. Their priority was to make money, they got Eccelstone to do it.

yes Eccelstone could have said no and left, he didn't, If he had they'd have got someone else to do it.

People seem to think Bernie had a free hand to do whatever he liked, he didn't.

Suspect it is the manner in which he did so, rather than the fact that he chose / was obliged to.

It was the oft-stated pretence of doing everything for the "sake of F1 / improving the show", rather than the never-mentioned "for the purposes of making money for CVC".

[JonChalk]

My original point was never about whether he did a good job or not, it was that he avoided responsibility for anything at all, whilst pulling strings / blackmailing / bribing the big teams in the background. All the time he was moaning in public about the sport HE ran and put it in the very state he moaned about.

...and before anyone gets too excited, what else would you call his "heritage team" payments (£100 million for Ferrari, for, well, being Ferrari), with the clear and present threat of removal, if his decisions / ideas not ratified by the teams?

Any 5 year old knows it's easy to admit you've done something wrong AFTER you've been caught; the HONEST thing to do is admit you were wrong before the problem emerges.

[JonChalk]

Where Bernie is concerned the taste bar is set very low, so think you're probably OK:


"What I would really like to see happen is to find the right girl, perhaps a black girl with super looks, preferably Jewish or Muslim, who speaks Spanish," he once told Autosport, per ESPN.
.......
"In a lot of ways, terrible to say this I suppose," Ecclestone began, "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."
.......
"Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances."
.......
"With [Vladimir] Putin, he says he's going to do something, he gets on it, does it."
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"The publicity generated by his death was so much... it was good for F1." Ecclestone told a Brazilian newspaper regarding the death of the legendary Ayrton Senna.


...plenty more on t'internet.