F1 needs brains, not just Brawn, to end Ecclestone-induced malaise | Richard Williams
Bernie Ecclestone left many problems when he was removed as Formula One chief executive but most pressing is the need to improve the actual racingLet’s face it: anything is better than Bernie Ecclestone, who used to say that money didn’t matter but was “just a way of keeping score”. Nobody believed him. The cash he extracted from Formula One over four decades of close involvement paid for the vast ski chalet in Gstaad, the villa on Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda, the ranch in Brazil, the executive jet, the lifestyles of his remarkable daughters – one living in a £75m house in Kensington Palace Gardens, the other in a $85m mansion in the hills above Los Angeles – and a £740m divorce...