By Terry Lovell
Publish yr note: initially released in 2008
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He is the guy who created modern day formulation One. he's either feared and trendy for how during which he masterminded its transformation from an beginner activity of the fifties right into a worldwide billion buck of the twenty first century. And now, along with his fortune, impression, and gear, Bernie Ecclestone has moved into the area of football with Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore to show Queen's Park Rangers, a suffering west London membership, right into a severe rival to the capital's glamour membership, Chelsea. in a single day, QPR has entry to extra wealth than genuine Madrid, capable of compete with the monetary backing of Roman Abramovich, Chelsea's Russian billionaire proprietor.
But what makes Bernie run? What lies in the back of the awful, poker-face of this deal-maker extraordinaire, who, for almost forty years, has ruthlessly exploited and ruled formulation One?
To many he grew to become the savior of the game, yet there have additionally been many that have suffered at this hands—the susceptible and the gullible, the politically naive and unsuspecting. they've got a special tale to inform. Revealing the unbridled avarice, callousness, and corruption at the back of the hype of formulation One, this publication additionally indicates the warts-and-all personality of the guy who's now environment his points of interest on a recreation no much less decadent.
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