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[Tsarwash]

Bernie manages to contradict himself in just a few sentences. On the one hand saying that Ferrari is F1 and F1 is Ferrari, and that you have to give them what they want, then saying that F1 should stop paying teams, and that F1 should go full electric, both of which are almost guaranteed to mean that Ferrari leave F1. 

Lots more little nuggets in the two articles. 

 

https://www.theguard...ic-cars-ferrari

http://www.dailymail...y-split-F1.html

 

Is that a threat from him, that unless he gets a meaningful role again, then he is going to help engineer a breakaway series ? 

 

[Victor_RO]

Sounds to me like the rantings of an old man in the final stages before accepting that power has finally been wrested from his grasp. In this day and age I don't think his mindset and methods will work in creating a breakaway series that would actually succeed under current conditions.

 

Better to just not give him the oxygen of publicity, frankly.

[johnmhinds]

[RECKLESS]

Dear Bernie, relax and enjoy your elderly days.

[Victor_RO]

Also, given the randomness of these soundbites, I think it's a good idea to just keep them in this thread as they eventually come along.

[PayasYouRace]

Isn’t this what Bernie always did? Just now he doesn’t have the power to get out of it,.

[Paul Parker]

Sounds to me like the rantings of an old man in the final stages before accepting that power has finally been wrested from his grasp. In this day and age I don't think his mindset and methods will work in creating a breakaway series that would actually succeed under current conditions.

 

Better to just not give him the oxygen of publicity, frankly.

 

Perhaps but so far the current incumbents are still in limbo, not sure I like what has happened thus far.

[statman]

just saw a random news article (The Sun):

 

How old is Bernie Ecclestone, what’s his net worth, how much did he sell Formula One for and who are his daughters Tamara and Petra?

 

First part of the title made me laugh, How old is Bernie?

[EthanM]

just saw a random news article (The Sun):

 

How old is Bernie Ecclestone, what’s his net worth, how much did he sell Formula One for and who are his daughters Tamara and Petra?

 

First part of the title made me laugh, How old is Bernie?

 

that's basically a 'we have all this data for this guy's obituary, he's not dying, might as well make an article out of it' kinda article written by the people that usually write .. obituaries.

[CoolBreeze]

Why do people keep giving him publicity.

[TecnoRacing]

As I recall, just 'yesterday' Bernie was bemoaning the hybrid turbos and wanted V8s / V10s back on the grid. Now it's full electric...

He knows or care what his real agenda or preferences are anymore

[loki]

Perhaps but so far the current incumbents are still in limbo, not sure I like what has happened thus far.

 

Limbo?  They own it, they are managing it.  Ecclestone is not coming back.  Ferrari is not going to dictate the terms of their new deal.  On track nothing has changed in the big picture since Ecclestone was shown the door.  The big teams still get an outsized share of the purse.  One team keeps dominating with another couple almost in the hunt with some wins here and there.  There is a halo, some different bits on the car and a couple of new manufacturer sponsors.  On track though last season was nearly the same as it's been in previous years.

[maximilian]

Why do people keep giving him publicity.

 

... including this thread.  He is FINALLY gone and irrelevant, and you guys have nothing better to do than to put him back in the spotlight where he doesn't belong! 

[CSF]

Bernie and Max are interesting people. 

[statman]

Bernie and Max are interesting people. 

 30 min. video interview with both of them. Interesting stuff:

 

[pdac]

Bernie and Max are interesting people. 

 

http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-43224171

[johnmhinds]

http://www.bbc.co.uk...litics-43224171

That Channel 4 interview is bananas.

 

Why did his lawyers allow him to go on TV to try and defend himself like that?

[turk157]

[Boing 2]

That Channel 4 interview is bananas.

 

Why did his lawyers allow him to go on TV to try and defend himself like that?

 

I've never actually seen Max that bad in an interview, he starts off by saying the poster isn't real and want's a forensic examination, then says parts of it are racist before later claiming the politician can't be called racist because he didn't sign the poster, Max did. That's Max admitting to signing the poster he just claimed didn't exist. Then he later claims it isn't racist after clearly admitting it was.

 

[balmybaldwin]

Odd the pair are suddenly in the news.

 

Today's mail (no i don't buy it - it's in the office coffee room) was a complete hatchet job on Mosely digging up all of the nazi orgy stuff, his dad's history with the facist movement etc must have been 10 pages of it from the front page back they've even linked him to the Steven Lawrence Murder ffs http://www.dailymail...s-movement.html

[LuckyStrike1]

Bernie is funny. In a sort of sad old man's way funny. 

[pdac]

Odd the pair are suddenly in the news.

 

Today's mail (no i don't buy it - it's in the office coffee room) was a complete hatchet job on Mosely digging up all of the nazi orgy stuff, his dad's history with the facist movement etc must have been 10 pages of it from the front page back they've even linked him to the Steven Lawrence Murder ffs http://www.dailymail...s-movement.html

 

Since he was caught with his pants down, so to speak, Max has been on a campaign to get the lawmakers to stamp on the press and allow him to erase anything from his past that he doesn't want to be in the public domain. He want's to be seen by history as a shining and exemplary example of the human race. He is using all of his power, influence and money to achieve this. Perhaps, as one might expect, the press are fighting back.

[JimmyClark]

I didn't see any point in starting a new thread, but "Silly Bernie" seems an appropriate title for this: 

 

https://www.espn.co....ly-carrying-gun

 

Former Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone was arrested in Brazil on Wednesday for illegally carrying a gun while boarding a private plane to Switzerland, local police said on Thursday.

The Brazilian police found an undocumented LW Seecamp .32 gun in Ecclestone's luggage during an X-ray screening, police said in a statement, adding that he was then arrested and taken to a facility at Viracopos airport in Campinas.

Ecclestone acknowledged owning the gun, but said he was unaware it was in his luggage at the time, police said. The Briton paid bail and was freed to travel to Switzerland.

[Dolph]

OK, you can be released against bail, but don't leave the country. Flies to Switzerland 

[F1 Mike]

This is amazing! Do you think it's ever been fired? One wonders who he was going to visit, or perhaps who he had just been visiting??!

[JimmyClark]

This is amazing! Do you think it's ever been fired? One wonders who he was going to visit, or perhaps who he had just been visiting??!

 

It does sound like the back-cover premise for an 'airport trash' thriller book...

 

"A nonagenerian billionaire with a mysterious past is caught on a private jet heading for Switzerland from Brazil with a handgun in his suitcase. Travelling with him is his equally mysterious young wife. A lifetime in motor racing, politics and business quickly catches up with him as his secrets are unravelled faster than the cars he used to race. Can his true intentions be discovered before it is too late?" 

Edited by JimmyClark, 26 May 2022 - 13:59.

[absinthedude]

This is amazing! Do you think it's ever been fired? One wonders who he was going to visit, or perhaps who he had just been visiting??!

 

"Bring me the head of Liberty Media"

 

Bernie: "Will a gunshot do?"

[Vitesse2]

This is amazing! Do you think it's ever been fired? One wonders who he was going to visit, or perhaps who he had just been visiting??!

Nelson Piquet, according to The Guardian.

 

https://www.theguard...gun-motor-sport

[Vitesse2]

I'd never heard of a Seecamp .32 pistol before. Appropriately, it turns out that, like Bernie, it's not very big.

 

[Dolph]

Maybe he is trying to under compensate.

[Pablo Vignone]

BCE lives half the year in his own coffee plantation near Sao Paulo, and the other six months in Geneva.

[potmotr]

I'd never heard of a Seecamp .32 pistol before. Appropriately, it turns out that, like Bernie, it's not very big.

 

 

Does the multi-billionaire Bernie Ecclestone no longer pay for protection? 

[PayasYouRace]

I'd never heard of a Seecamp .32 pistol before. Appropriately, it turns out that, like Bernie, it's not very big.

 

For Bernie that’s a normal sized pistol.

[MKSixer]

This thread is pure gold. How did I miss it before?  

 

It is fitting that Bernie is involved in this variety of international scandals.  Anything less and we'd all feel shorted.  (I'll show myself out now.)

[JimmyClark]

I'd never heard of a Seecamp .32 pistol before. Appropriately, it turns out that, like Bernie, it's not very big.

 

 

It reminds me of the Noisy Cricket from Men in Black 

[MKSixer]

It reminds me of the Noisy Cricket from Men in Black 

They are on the way to true fame and fortune.  If you search Seecamp .32 an image of Bernie and the story now pops up half-way down the page.  Sales are about to shoot to through the stratosphere.  (Ok...I'm really leaving now.)

 

https://video.search...3e&action=click

[BRK]

I didn't see any point in starting a new thread, but "Silly Bernie" seems an appropriate title for this: 

 

https://www.espn.co....ly-carrying-gun

 

Maybe he really did 'forget' there was a handgun in his luggage. Good ol' Bernie is so old jokes about his senility are past their due date by about 20 years. 

[Izzyeviel]

I'm surprised there isn't a gif of mr burns firing a gun. I can just imagine young bernie whipping out his gun to shoot someone and ending up flying backwards by several feet.

[Brian60]

This is amazing! Do you think it's ever been fired? One wonders who he was going to visit, or perhaps who he had just been visiting??!

He lives in Brazil and has a huge coffee plantation there - Brundle once did an interview with him from the place. Perhaps the question was, who was he going to assassinate in Switzerland (alledgedly)

[Dhillon]

I'm surprised there isn't a gif of mr burns firing a gun. I can just imagine young bernie whipping out his gun to shoot someone and ending up flying backwards by several feet.

[AustinF1]

BCE lives half the year in his own coffee plantation near Sao Paulo, and the other six months in Geneva.

Yep. He's still doing just fine. 

[William Hunt]

He can start up a break away serie in Russia with his best friend Putin

[Widefoot2]

I can just imagine what Mr. Boothroyd would have said to Bernie...

[malomay]

I can just imagine what Mr. Boothroyd would have said to Bernie...

"ladies gun sir"

[jonpollak]

If I was Bernie I’d be carrying a gun too

Think Ozark.
Jp

[JimmyClark]

Bernie on Putin...

https://twitter.com/...Syp4Sb9Hvw&s=19

[IrvTheSwerve]

Yeah, saw this on GMB in the UK this morning...yikes, I'm shocked that he's said all that. To summarise, he said he would "take a bullet" for Putin and that he is an honourable man.

 

Surely that puts him in an awkward position business-wise and in his personal life. 

Edited by IrvTheSwerve, 30 June 2022 - 07:45.

[Ellios]

Boss Goosed his way through another car crash TV interview. 

[as65p]

Isn’t this what Bernie always did? Just now he doesn’t have the power to get out of it,.

Exactly. Not much different to his power days.

 

I never understood how it he made it all work, the way he came across in public, but the undeniable fact is, he DID made it work.

[Claudius]

Why should any media interview a former FOM boss about Ukraine?

Strange.