A comprehensive and revealing unauthorised biography. This book tells how a street-smart, working-class kid became one of the most powerful and wealthiest figures in sport. For more than 30 years, Bernie Ecclestone has ruthlessly exploited and dominated Formula One motor racing to become the third richest man in the United Kingdom. This biography is a tale of personal insecurity, business acumen, overwhelming ambition, big business, remarkable honour and sudden death. It strips away the sexy veneer of F1 to look behind the hype that sustains it. It open the august portals of the FIA, the body that governs F1, to discover the avarice, callousness and corruption of its rules. Written by Terry Lovell, the story was sidelined for several years when lawyers recoiled at the prospect of court action from one of Britain’s richest men. 374 pages, 17 b&w pictures. English.