Generally I still believe that Lewis [Hamilton] is the best champion that we have had in a long, long time. He manages to get to all different walks of life: red carpet, fashion business, and music – you name it.
BERNIE ECCLESTONEI think we don’t need some people in Brussels trying to run countries that are some distance apart, who don’t speak the same language, don’t eat the same food. There’s a bit of difference between, Holland, if you like, and Italy.
More Bernie Ecclestone Quotes
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But when it comes to F1 I am a huge Lewis [Hamilton] fan because he is a super promoter of the sport. From a pure business aspect – sorry Nico if I have to say this – you are not so good for my business.
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I simply scraped together all my experience and put it into the sport.
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When people want to built new tracks, they want to look at Silverstone. We don’t want it built like that. It’s quite embarrassing.
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I never neglected my daughters – quite the opposite – but I suppose I could have and should have spent more time with them.
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People want to build new circuits around the world and they say: ‘We’ll come to Silverstone and have a look how it’s done’, and I tell them to stay away.
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I think the way I do things would be difficult to teach somebody to do. They need to get another good used car dealer. That’s what they need. Find a good car dealer.
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Actually I think I have forgotten how it was back then. Or probably not – I didn’t qualify. There were only 16 cars in the race.
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Each new deal is another opportunity.
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It’s not as easy as that… it’s disappointing to think that all these countries spend a lot of money trying to get the Olympics.
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[Donald] Trump would want to cosy up to him for sure, and he’d be right to do that. Which would be good for the world.
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I always thought that dads in the old days where rather macho types who wouldn’t get close to a baby, let alone change nappies.
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My dad always took to his heels when a nappy change was necessary. I am so much looking forward to our child. It is such a wonderfully exciting time right now.
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Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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I have a lot of faith in justice systems around the world even though there were cases in the past where that faith wasn’t justified in some countries.
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Don’t forget I started looking at China a long time before any of those races happened. I always thought go east, not west.
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