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Bernie Ecclestone: "I'm like a hitman without bullets"

Bernie Ecclestone: "I'm like a hitman without bullets"

  • Published on 26 Apr 2017 14:13
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  • By: Rik Klein Entink

 Bernie Ecclestone has lobbed an apparent threat in the direction of F1's new regime.The sport's long-time supremo was ousted amid the recent takeover by Liberty, replaced by new CEO Chase Carey and deputy chiefs Ross Brawn and Sean Bratches.86-year-old Ecclestone, in turn, was given the largely honorary role of 'chairman emeritus'.

"I said the trouble with all sort of animals is if you want to kill them, you have to kill them -- don't wound them," Ecclestone has told the BBC motoring programme Top Gear. Asked by interviewer Eddie Jordan if that is a "little message" to Liberty about his disempowered role, he answered: "It depends how people want to take meanings, doesn't it?"

As for his new role as chairman emeritus, billionaire Ecclestone continued: "I don't know. It's a little bit like giving a hit man a gun and no bullets. "But I've got enough money to buy the bullets."
 

ianf1

Posts: 185

He's been shooting blanks for years

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  • Apr 26 2017 - 15:29
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  • mclarenfan1968

    Posts: 1,027

    No you are just cancer, now die already pos.

    • + 0
    • Apr 26 2017 - 14:31
  • Bhurt

    Posts: 320

    Bless him.

    • + 1
    • Apr 26 2017 - 14:34
  • Wolfgang

    Posts: 313

    to be honest: What an idiot!! If you don´t want to lose power don´t sell your baby. He now, with much more money than he´s ever going to need, realizes money isn´t everything.

    This sort of badmouthing seems to be a typical british thing in F1. Lewser did the same after he´s beaten by Nico last year, and more astonishingly he´s still doing this year.

    They both seem to have missed the lesson by their parents where you should shut the fuck up.

    • + 1
    • Apr 26 2017 - 14:55
    • Vega23

      Posts: 17

      "A typical British thing"? I can think of quite a few times that your countrymen (*cough Vettel) have been less than discrete in their dislike of situations that they felt disadvantaged in........ Telling Charlie Whiting to Fuck off was a good example....... Perhaps there are a few Germans need to learn that lesson from their parents also..
      *Not that I am a supporter of Ecclestone...

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      • Apr 26 2017 - 19:24
    • mclarenfan1968

      Posts: 1,027

      Charlie Whiting does indeed need to be told to fuck off from time to time. The shady double standards when dishing out penalties when British drivers are involved is already reason enough for most drivers to take a dump on Charlie.

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      • Apr 27 2017 - 04:26
    • Wolfgang

      Posts: 313

      Vega23, of course it was a little provocative. Nonetheless is this kind of badmouthing in the media something i´ve never witnessed for example from Daniel Ricciardo. Or Max Verstappen. Or Nico Rosberg, or Kimi Raikkonen. Or Jenson Button, or even Sebastian Vettel.

      Of course he was pissed in Mexico, and his words were wrong and he knew it immediately after the race. This is why he apologised public and even wrote a personal letter to Charlie. I´ve never seen or heard Mr. Ecclestone saying sorry. Or Lewis Hamilton. Or Fernando Alonso. So all in all you maybe get the point of what i meant now a little bit better.

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      • Apr 27 2017 - 12:01
  • ianf1

    Posts: 185

    He's been shooting blanks for years

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    • Apr 26 2017 - 15:29
  • MichaelBUFF

    Posts: 3

    Have some decorum and abandon the ship after selling it, please stop talking to the press, buy an island and dissapear... and take villeneuve with you!

    • + 1
    • Apr 26 2017 - 16:49
  • calle.itw

    Posts: 8,527

    Oh, Ecclestone, entertaining as always. I guess he'll join the "formerly-relevant in F1" club now.

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    • Apr 26 2017 - 19:43
    • Wolfgang

      Posts: 313

      called Falvios Billionaires-Club. :-)

      • + 0
      • Apr 27 2017 - 11:55
    • calle.itw

      Posts: 8,527

      Do they get free snake oil there? :D

      • + 0
      • Apr 27 2017 - 17:06

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