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Inside Line: Thanks Bernie but it was time to go

< > There’s never been anyone in the history of professional sport quite like Bernie Ecclestone. A visionary pioneer. A brilliant businessman. An unscrupulous competitor. A dictatorial leader. An endlessly quotable machine. A figure as big as Formula 1 itself. Without a doubt, we’ll never see another like him – and maybe that’s a good thing. At 86 it was getting to a point where you wondered if he’d never leave – surely if there was a frontrunner to have their brain placed in a vat and hooked up to a computer, it would be him – but it’s finally happened. Liberty Media, the new owners of F1, have relieved Bernie of his role as Chief Executive, replacing him with the...
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