Ishyaka rya motorsport hamwe nubuhanga mubucuruzi byatumye Bernie Ecclestone ayoboye mumarushanwa ya mbere ya motorsport. Azi ubuzima bwa "Umuyobozi wa Formula 1".
Bernard Charles “Bernie” Ecclestone yavutse ku ya 8 Ukwakira 1930 i Suffolk mu Bwongereza, avukira mu muryango ukennye. Mwene umubyara numurobyi, uyumunsi ni «umutware wa Formula 1». Ni Perezida n'Umuyobozi mukuru wa Formula One Management (FOM) n'Ubuyobozi bwa Formula One (FOA).
"Bernie" imyaka yambere yubuzima
Kuva akiri muto, Bernie Ecclestone yerekanye imico ikomeye kandi afite ubucuruzi. Akiri umwana, yakundaga kugura ibintu biryoshye hanyuma akagurisha bagenzi be inshuro ebyiri, bikagaragaza imitekerereze ye yo kwihangira imirimo. Kubera ko yari muto kurenza bagenzi be, bivugwa ko Bernie yishyuye bagenzi be bakuru kugirango bamurinde mu kiruhuko. Kandi uyu? ...
Amaze kuba ingimbi, umwongereza yishimiye uburyo bwo gutwara moto, maze afite imyaka 16 gusa, yinjira muri Fred Compton gushinga Compton & Ecclestone, isosiyete igurisha ibice bya moto.
Ubunararibonye bwa mbere mumarushanwa - abicaye umwe - byabaye mu 1949 muri Formula 3, ariko nyuma yimpanuka nyinshi zabereye mukarere ka Brands Hatch, Bernie Ecclestone yatakaje amarushanwa maze ahitamo kwibanda kubice byubucuruzi bwo gusiganwa. .
Ibikorwa bya mbere binini
Mu myaka yashize, intsinzi yubucuruzi yarushijeho kwiyongera - Ecclestone nayo yatangiye kugura no kugurisha imodoka no gushora mumitungo itimukanwa - maze mu 1957 Ecclestone agura itsinda rya Formula 1 Connaught Engineering.
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Nyuma y'uwo mwaka, Ecclestone yabaye umuyobozi w'inshuti n'umushoferi Stuart Lewis-Evans, agerageza gusubira muri gari ya moshi muri Monaco Grand Prix mu 1958, ariko nta ntsinzi. Muri Grand Prix ya Maroc, Lewis-Evans yagize impanuka ihitana Ecclestone yibasiwe cyane; nyuma yimyaka ibiri, umushoferi Jochen Rindt (icyo gihe yari yarahaye akazi Ecclestone nk'umuyobozi we) yapfiriye mu karere k’amateka ya Monza, bituma umwongereza arangiza burundu umwuga we wo gutwara.
Kwinjira neza kwisi ya formula 1
Mu 1972, Ecclestone yaguze Brabham, ikipe y'Ubwongereza yari gutsinda cyane bitewe nabashoferi Niki Lauda na Nelson Piquet (ku ishusho hejuru). Bernie Ecclestone rero yatangiye gushimangira umwanya we mumarushanwa ya mbere ya motorsport. Nyuma yimyaka ibiri, umwongereza yashinze ishyirahamwe ryabubatsi rya Formula 1 (FOCA), hamwe na Colin Chapman (washinze Lotus) ninshuti numunyamategeko Max Mosely (ku ifoto iri hepfo), nabandi.
Binyuze muri FOCA, Ecclestone yagezeho mu 1978 nicyo gishobora kuba uruhare runini yagize mu ihindagurika rya Formula 1. Umucuruzi w’Ubwongereza yahuje amakipe yose maze agirana amasezerano yo kugurisha uburenganzira bwa tereviziyo. Amafaranga yinjiye yagabanijwe mu matsinda (47%), Ishyirahamwe Mpuzamahanga ry’imodoka (30%) hamwe n’ubuyobozi bushya bwa Formula One hamwe n’ubuyobozi (23%). Amasezerano - azwi ku izina rya "Amasezerano ya Concorde" - yagiye aganirwaho mu myaka yashize, buri gihe na Ecclestone nk'inshingano nyamukuru.
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Kuva icyo gihe, Bernie Ecclestone yabaye imwe mu mbaraga zikomeye za Formula 1 kandi ashinzwe cyane cyane gukoresha ubushobozi bwa siporo, buri gihe afite icyerekezo cyihariye kandi cyihariye cya siporo - rimwe na rimwe adashoboye kwirinda amakimbirane. Kugeza ubu, rwiyemezamirimo ni umuyobozi w'itsinda rya Formula 1 akaba n'umwe muri ba rwiyemezamirimo bakize mu Bwongereza.Hagati aho, habaye impaka nyinshi zijyanye no guhitamo kwabo. Mubisanzwe yibanze kubucuruzi nibisubizo, ntakibazo yagize "gukurura imirya" kugirango akure amarushanwa munzira. Kurugero, mumwaka wa 1992, yashoboye guteza imbere hamwe na FIA impinduka mumabwiriza yigikombe cyisi kugirango yamagane indero. Igisubizo? Igikombe cyisi cyo Kwihangana kirarangiye, ikizamini ko yakoraga byinshi kuri Formula 1.
Izo nkuru zirakurikirana kandi impaka nazo - kurwanya abagore muri Formula 1 no kurwanya imbuga nkoranyambaga. Ubu afite imyaka 85, kimwe mubibazo bikomeye muri disipuline ni izungura rye. Umuntu wese uzamusimbura, Ecclestone yamaze kubona umwanya wingenzi mumateka ya Formula 1 - kubwimpamvu zose nibindi (soma ibyiza nibibi).