Bernie: F1 needs women drivers
Formula One has a two week break between the Bahrain Grand Prix at the end of April and the Spanish Grand Prix to be held in Barcelona next Sunday.
This has allowed plenty of time for Bernie Ecclestone to be let loose on the press and produce a couple of choice quotes.
According to the Guardian, at a dinner for local Spanish motor sport journalists, Bernie said that he would like Formula One to be “surrounded by controversy all the time.”
Obviously disappointed the whole McLaren controversy was dealt with so quickly, he decided it was time to give his enlightened views about the future of the sport:
Personally I don’t really mind who comes in, but if I had a choice I think that formula one needs a black, Jewish woman who, if possible, wins some races too.
This comes after he compared the signing of a new Concorde agreement to the Arab/Israeli conflict:
It’s like Israel and the Palestinians always about to reach an agreement but never quite signing it.