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ONE OF A KIND
F1SUPREMO
Bernie Ecclestone
B ernie Ecclestone's public He is the Chief Executive of the Formula One company as a way to buy motorcycles. This
history paints the man who Group, which manages the Grand Prix races inauspicious beginning led to a motorcycle
fostered a motorcycle hobby and controls the commercial rights to the spare parts business. A 'wannabe' racer, he had
into a billion dollar business, sport. He built up the European race into the a collision in his first motorcycle race in 1949
as a man whose tenacity and vision brought worldwide event it has become. and soon turned to managing drivers, then
him to where he is today: one of the richest Ecclestone's story is self-made. He started bought the Brabham team which he ran for
men in the world. His personal worth is working at age 16 in a Suffolk gasworks fifteen years.
currently cited by Forbes as $3.2 billion.
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