Mr Bernard Charles Ecclestone has many claims to fame \u2013 not least as a serial Formula 1 team owner. His earliest foray was in part with his great friend \u2013 and brilliant driver at the time \u2013 Stuart Lewis-Evans. Ecclestone bought two B-Type Connaughts at that delightful team\u2019s closure sale in 1957, and he ran them in New Zealand and then in Formula 1 into 1958. <\/p>\n
He entered them for that year\u2019s Monaco Grand Prix, and during practice three drivers attempted to qualify the cars \u2013 Paul Emery, the American \u2018Racing Rabbi\u2019 Bruce Kessler\u2026 and Mr E himself (above). They were unsuccessful in joining the AC Monaco\u2019s strictly applied \u201816 on the grid\u2019, but never mind \u2013 one suspects Bernie the competitor would have thought \u201cI will be back\u201d\u2026 and he was, and 50 years later he\u2019s still here, and characteristically he\u2019s still very much in charge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":748,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","categories":[],"tags":[167,39123,38476,195,115462,115485,39519,34634],"issue_decade":[121591],"issue_year":[121626],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/50840"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/issue_content"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/748"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50840"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/50840\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":226981,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_content\/50840\/revisions\/226981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50840"},{"taxonomy":"issue_decade","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_decade?post=50840"},{"taxonomy":"issue_year","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.motorsportmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issue_year?post=50840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}