Bernie Ecclestone
Bernard Charles Ecclestone
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Emerging from a Suffolk fishing family and leaving school at sixteen, he studied chemistry at Woolwich Polytechnic while trading motorcycle parts before turning to racing in the 500 cc Formula 3 series in 1949. After brief stints as a privateer in Formula One and managing drivers such as Stuart Lewis-Evans and Jochen Rindt, he bought the Brabham team in 1972, guiding it to 22 victories and two Wor…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources