" In an interview with a Belgian newspaper last week, Ecclestone said Hakkinen was totally lacking in charisma and repeated his desire to see Michael Schumacher win. He said: “You can’t create a personality. Mika has no charisma, and no one knows that he is world champion. He is cold and enclosed – in short the type of character that Ron Dennis appreciates. He prefers sheep to those with their own ideas.”
Perhaps understandably, Dennis was not impressed with Ecclestone’s remarks. He was particularly incensed by the fact Ecclestone let slip his support for Ferrari. In the past, Dennis has made no secret of his view that the Italian team receives preferential treatment from the FIA, of which Ecclestone is vice-president.
He told Motoring News: “I’m surprised that Bernie, in his many roles, would express an opinion on drivers – it would be more appropriate to be neutral.”
Dennis launched a spirited defence of his man Hakkinen.
“I thought the objective in Formula 1 was to win races,” he retorted. “But if you know Mika as a man there is nothing further from the truth than what Bernie’s feeling is.” "
So please give your opinnion on this. Personally I think that Bernie has followed to much this bb
. Anyway a man in such big boots should consider little harder what he says publicly... Those kind of remarks are neither professinal or give a particularly good image of the sports in general... Don't give a **** what he thinks of Mika in private.
