THE EDITOR
“A race on the Las Vegas Strip was always a dream of Ecclestone’s”
There is nothing quite like an arresting photograph. And the one that caught my eye last month was of Bernie Ecclestone snapped by a passer-by standing in a queue at a donut stall moments after he had been relieved of £652m by a court after pleading guilty to tax fraud. When asked about the case he replied he couldn’t say anything because of the “bloody lawyers”. It was typical Bernie, embodying both unimaginable wealth and man-on-thestreet straightforwardness at the same time.
I won’t go into details of the case but there was a certain irony to the fact that Bernie’s downfall (in a legal sense; the 93-year-old still managed to negotiate avoiding a jail term) came just as we were preparing our coverage of the upcoming Las Vegas Grand Prix.