Burney Eclestone Autosport Awards Acquented 75th Anniversary Honori Awards

Long before the billion-dollar deals were … Bans and Biscuits. The initial bird could not always catch the worm, but in the case of a young Bernard Charls Eclestone, the initial researcher had already done two paper rounds- and then, on the way to school, invested the income in a mixed bag of fresh- one From the local bakery to the oven comestables to sell the fellow students for older benefits.

This enterprise set tone for the life of visionary entrepreneurship.

Burney arrived in motorsport as a contestant, racing against the choice of Sterling Moss in Formula 3. At a time when the top -level motorists in the UK were well heel province, which was the dismissal attitude of the establishment towards those who worked for a living. The “Bexleath Motorcycle Merchant” was evident in its press details.

The two wheels naturally led four and Bernie soon became one of the most successful car dealers of the UK.

“Due to his reputation,” in his autobiography, the late Max Mosley wrote, “Other dealers will try to get better from Britain. Some of them called him from a motorway services sector on the way to the house, so that he was clear Could he make the deal… “

Big fish, small pond. Second-hand cars represented a person with a person with Burney gifts. Commerce in motor racing will become their matier – but the danisense of this world did not yet know this.

During the 1950s, Burney acquired the assets of the defective Connaught Market and managed Stuart Lewis-Evans. Connaught’s cars were unaware in the Grands Prix and the death of Lewis-Evans looted a friend’s waste tragically, and a bright youth talent motor racing.

Burney returned as a manager of another giant talent in the 1960s, as a joke as a sorrow, was sad to be the only posthumous world champion of F1. In 1969, Jochen and Bernie proposed from teams that were unable to introduce cars which both were fast. And Reliable, clear solution it was to go alone. Rindt’s untimely pass in September 1970 meant that he would not play any role in Berni’s next step, The Briham team’s acquisition. And yet as the owner of a fast competitive F1 Market, Burney’s capacity was not enough.

He then paid attention to whether there was a cartel of race promoters effectively. In the next decades, Burney teams will be federal to secure better deals, challenge the power of the Sports Committee of the FIA ​​(which protects the interests of promoters at the time of the contestants), and exploit the power of television coverage Do F1 in a global game spectacle.

It is not an exaggeration to say that Burney converted F1 from a cottage industry to a multi-aboard-dollar enterprise.

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