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Bernie Ecclestone

King of Sport

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Bernie Ecclestone

By: Terry Lovell
Narrated by: Norman Gilligan
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For nearly forty years he has ruthlessly exploited and dominated Formula One motor racing, and now he is setting his sights further afield.... This is the true story of Bernie Ecclestone, the street-smart, working-class kid who masterminded the transformation of Formula One from an amateur sport of the fifties into a global billion dollar industry of the 21st century.

Now, with his GBP2.5bn fortune, influence and power, Bernie has moved into the world of football with Renault F1 boss Flavio Briatore to turn Queen's Park Rangers, a struggling west London club, into a serious rival to the capital's glamour club, Chelsea. To many he was the saviour of Formula One, but there are also those who came into conflict with his methods. They have a different story to tell. Bernie Ecclesone, King of Sport reveals the unbridled avarice, callousness and corruption behind the hype of Formula One - and the warts-and-all character of the man who is now making his mark on the beautiful game. This is the true, astonishing story of the single most powerful man in thew world of sport today.

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This book was very difficult to finish, because the narrator was incredibly boring. The narrator is very monotone. The few voice modulation’s there are sound more like a computer generated voice, because it often doesn’t match the context of the sentence. I would’ve given this book 5 stars if they had chosen a better narrator.

The book is good, but this is one of the worst narrations I’ve ever experienced. It’s similar to an auto generated narrator.

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The book was quite interesting but the author seemed to get bogged down in the minutiae of subjects that were best just summerised. An example was the Queens Park Rangers soccer subject right at the end of the book. Totally overdone.

As for the reader - he was really poor. Should consider another vocation.

Rather disappointing

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This man is a legend filled with good and bad decisions. The author seems to really put a shank in the bad things and exaggerates outcome. Also example when Bernie signed niki lauda the author writes as if there relationship was shit even though niki was the first driver to have a 1 million dollar contract. Also the fact that when niki left the team is was Bernie that told him your not racing if your retiring at the end of the year and allowed him to leave at the canadian grand prix, the author makes it seem as brahbam was some evil cheater when everyone back then was wrestling for an edge. I like the information in the book but the author seems very biast and almost no understanding of Bernie's personality.

Who ever wrote this is a glass half empty person

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Some of the chapters don't even talk about Bernie. I get a backstory but this was next level stuff.

gets into the weeds too much

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I was hoping for a interesting, insider's look at the rise of Bernie Ecclestone and Formula 1. Instead this book drones on and on with every trivial detail of seemingly each business negotiation of Bernie's career.

Terribly Boring

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