Now, since I am done with the tirade against a remark that he made in 2005 in the first part, here I am penning what I initially started out to do. Me as Bernie Ecclestone for a day. Being Bernie Ecclestone is big business...

F1: If I Were Bernie Ecclestone for a Day: Part II

by Saraswathi Siriginia (Senior Writer)

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June 28, 2008

Now, since I am done with the tirade against a remark that he made in 2005 in the first part, here I am penning what I initially started out to do.

Me as Bernie Ecclestone for a day.

Being Bernie Ecclestone is big business. The blokes from CVC Capital Partners are trying to get me out of the game, but they don't know that I have an ace up my sleeve. I told Max not to worry too much about what is being said about him and me in the media, and that we need to maintain this charade of us being at loggerheads, so that people can start walking out of the woodwork trying to antagonise us against each other. That we can know who our enemy is and what they are fighting for.

Max gets very angry sometimes. He thinks I should throw down the gauntlet at the people in CVC and remind them as to who is the boss. He does not understand that it could prove counter productive.

This driver strike thing will not succeed. Poor blokes, they don't understand that we are the bosses and that they are mere paid drivers. I told Whitmarish and Dominecalli, pay these boys some more and they will stay out of the GPDA, and, without some of the top drivers, what good is the GPDA?

McLaren cannot talk about the breakaway faction anymore as they have been taught a lesson. They will learn to toe the line or else lose a few more championship points through grid penalties and the lot. I told Max to be strict with the whole F1 officialdom. Remind them as to what they should do if someone tries to question the my power.

Frank Williams called this morning; we discussed about the Russian GP, I told him that I will support it, Frank is going to test his Williams there, after all, he has to take care of his shareholders interests.

I forgot to remind my secretary not to pick up any calls from that bloke from the American news web site as he is hounding on my reasons not to put the US GP on the 2009 provisional list. Have to remind Max to keep them hanging for a while! Not that it is not budget savvy, but because the last time there was an US GP, it was egg on my face.

Have to call the Saad and remind him that my bones are not good enough to watch that belly dancer gyrating in the desert.

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Read the whole Bernie Ecclestone Series:

Open Letter -Personal Serfdom

Bernie's Rejoinder - Imaginary

Rejoinder to Bernie's Rejoinder

Being Bernie - Part I

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