Money makes Bernie Ecclestones F1 world go round | Richard Williams
When the man who takes the profit is allowed to make the rules, it is not surprising that a preoccupation with spectacle eats away at the soul of a sport
This week Bernie Ecclestone gave a million dollars exactly one per cent of the $100m he paid into a German court to a charity caring for terminally ill children. Close observers of his career might have been thinking that the diminutive Formula One ringmaster had already done more than enough for childrens charities.
His two younger daughters, after all, live with their families in mansions in London and Los Angeles costing upwards of £50m apiece before redecoration to suit exotic tastes that run, in the case of the elder daughters pad, to a £1m crystal bath.
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