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I also would rather race than strut red carpets in Hollywood – and thank God this is not my job – but also the team principals should be more prominent.

Bernie Ecclestone

You can’t compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I’m not really nostalgic about the past.
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Bad Climate Era Past Point Sports
Anyone who doesn’t speak English isn’t worth speaking to
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English Speak
I’d rather the handshake for somebody that I can trust than a contract. Because you can read the bloody contract – perhaps if you made a little bit of a mistake writing it – in a way to suit you.
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Mistake Suits Writing You
Take away Toto Wolff’s Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street – nobody would recognize him.
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Shirts Street Vettel
I have so much respect for [Bernie Ecclestone] for what he did with this sport. He did so much more than people in tennis or football.
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Football People Sports
My daughters have strong personalities. I’m close to them but they don’t really need me to advise them on how to manage their lives and they don’t ask me to do that.
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Daughter Personality Strong
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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Country Thinking Trying
As I small child and hearing all the stories about him I, of course, looked up to him as some kind of miracle. Then I got to eight years old and suddenly I was taller than [Bernie Ecclestone].
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Children Eight Years
It’s the best thing to happen to a sport, that you have a superstar. In football there is always something to write about the Beckhams, same as people want to write about Rooney or Hooney or whatever his bloody name is.
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Football Sports Writing
Two races we’ve lost which I’m genuinely upset about were India and Turkey.
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Country Race Two
Women should be all dressed in white like all the other domestic appliances.
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Appliances Dressed White
[Maurizio Arrivabene is quite a character] but only for himself and not for Formula One.
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Character Formulas One
If you’re going to take the attitude, I don’t think it will work, you will never do anything.
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Anything Attitude Thinking
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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Business Fans Sorry Sports
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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Looks People Track
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.
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Believe Fashion Names

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