Bernie Ecclestone: "I'm now enjoying doing all the things that perhaps I should have done years ago"
F1 Beyond The Grid
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4.7 • 5.3K Ratings
🗓️ 4 December 2019
⏱️ 66 minutes
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On this week’s special show, we speak to Mr E about his incredible career, including his attempts to qualify for races as a driver, managing the interests of tragic world champion Jochen Rindt and running Brabham – including withdrawing the famous fan car! Then there’s the highs and lows of running the sport as its grand supremo…this is one chat you don’t want to miss!
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| 0:00.0 | Hi everyone and welcome to Beyond the Grid presented by the new Bose noise-canceling |
| 0:10.4 | headphone 700. |
| 0:11.4 | It's Tom Clarkson here and I'm trying to think how best to describe this week's guest. |
| 0:17.1 | When I asked him to introduce the podcast himself as I do with all of our guests, he told |
| 0:21.7 | me that was my job. |
| 0:23.4 | So here I am trying to think up a description that does the man justice. |
| 0:27.8 | To many people he's the godfather of Formula One. |
| 0:30.8 | He transformed the sport from being the indulgence of rich amateurs in the 50s into the global |
| 0:36.0 | phenomenon that it is today watched by hundreds of millions of people on television. |
| 0:41.0 | I'm talking of course about the incomparable Bernie Eccleston. |
| 0:45.6 | Bernie's career in Formula One has been a long one. |
| 0:47.9 | Believe it or not, he actually tried to qualify for a couple of gromperies in 1958 before |
| 0:52.9 | then transferring his energies into driver management. |
| 0:56.6 | He worked with British racers Stuart Lewis Evans and then with 1970 World Champion Yocke |
| 1:02.6 | and Rint. |
| 1:03.6 | But tragically both men would die after accidents behind the wheel. |
| 1:08.1 | But Bernie's love affair with racing continued. |
| 1:10.4 | He eventually bought the Brabham team in 1972 and led them to World Championship glory. |
| 1:15.6 | And it was during this period that his career went stratospheric. |
| 1:19.8 | Before long he was negotiating with race promoters on behalf of the teams and a stupidly |
| 1:24.6 | short amount of time later. |
| 1:26.5 | He was running the sport in its entirety. |
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