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Bernard Charles Ecclestone (born 28 October 1930) is a British business magnate, motorsport executive and former racing driver.Widely known in journalism as the "F1 Supremo", [a] Ecclestone founded the Formula One Group in 1987, [b] controlling the commercial rights to Formula One until 2017.
Ecclestone was born in London [2] as the younger daughter of former Armani model Slavica Radić and English Formula One billionaire Bernie Ecclestone.She has an older sister, Tamara Jane, an older paternal half-sister, Deborah, and a younger paternal half-brother, Alexander.
In 1974, the Formula One Constructors' Association (FOCA) was founded in order to increase commercial organisation of Formula One for the benefit of the racing teams. In 1978, Bernie Ecclestone became the executive of FOCA, and fought the Fédération Internationale du Sport Automobile (FISA) for control of the commercial rights of F1.
It evolved from the earlier Formula 1 Constructors Association (F1CA; the name was changed due to unfortunate connotations in some languages) and came to be dominated by Bernie Ecclestone and Max Mosley (originally a co-founder of March Engineering). Frank Williams, Colin Chapman, Teddy Mayer, Ken Tyrrell were also significant members. FOCA ...
Formula One Management has awarded three different promotional awards, the Television Trophy for the best host broadcaster, the Race Promoters' Trophy for the best race promoter and the ASN Trophy (also called Bernie Ecclestone Trophy) for the best-scoring national sporting association. [1] The Race Promoters' for race promoters was first ...
This was the debut World Championship race for Cliff Allison, future double world champion and five time Monaco winner Graham Hill, Ken Kavanagh, Bruce Kessler, Maria Teresa de Filippis, André Testut, Giulio Cabianca, Bernie Ecclestone, and Luigi Taramazzo. It also marked the debut race for Team Lotus in Formula One.
Ecclestone is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: A. W. Ecclestone (1901–1984), British architect; Arthur Ecclestone (1906–1990), English footballer; Bernie Ecclestone (born 1930), British businessman; George Walter Ecclestone (1865–1940), Canadian politician; Giles Ecclestone (born 1968), English cricketer
Tamara Ecclestone Rutland [1] (née Ecclestone; born 28 June 1984) is a British model, socialite, television personality, and the daughter of Bernie Ecclestone, the former chief executive of the Formula One Group, and Slavica Radić.