Bernie Ecclestone wishes you a Merry Christmas... at Max Mosley's expense
Formula One impresario Bernie Ecclestone's Christmas tradition is to send a mischievous card to friends. The past few years he probably hasn't had to work too hard to come up with something -- in fact, it's probably taken more time to figure out which particular F1 shenanigan he wanted to portray.
This year, Bernie looked no further than one of his best friends, Max Mosley. Max was embroiled in an ugly sex scandal earlier this year, and Ecclestone's card depicts Max meting out the same justice to F1 team bosses that a room full of prostitutes did for him while Bernie stands by with the band-aids. The other interesting things about the card: Toyota's manager is writhing in agony and while the other team bosses appear to be watching the race, Toro Rosso's Gerhard Berger is watching... legs.
[Source: F1 Fanatic]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
mmstowes 1:21PM (12/23/2008)
Lol, that's cold.
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rndmnme 1:37PM (12/23/2008)
Surprise, Surprise.
Bernie Eccelstone will throw just about anyone / anything under the bus for his personal enjoyment.
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Richard 1:41PM (12/23/2008)
The Ferrari should be dragging a fuel filler hose! Notice that the only one who seems to be paying attention tot he race is Ron. Wonder what that means.
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ghw 2:42PM (12/23/2008)
Ron already knows hes going to get screwed by Mosley, why watch?
Temple 2:53PM (12/23/2008)
Bernie Eccelstone looks actually acceptable in the drawing, compared to real life where his face looks like a decaying zombie.
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Eric 2:56PM (12/23/2008)
Is BMW trying to get some information from Ferrari?
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UhOh 3:33PM (12/23/2008)
He forgot to include Slavica bailing with a suitcase full of money!
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Mobius_1 3:43PM (12/23/2008)
I guess Bernie's not a good friend of Max's then...
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Metar 4:24PM (12/23/2008)
They haven't been good pals lately... But especially not after Mosley, in his "Spec-letter or bust" letter to the teams, also offered them the option of a breakaway series, FIA-sanctioned but without paying Bernie's FOM.
hyundaifans.com 5:22PM (12/23/2008)
Well, it did get a chuckle out of me.
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Tom Winch 6:27PM (12/23/2008)
It's not Gerhard Berger who is looking at legs, it's Ron Dennis. Gerhard is looking back at Mosley. Dennis is looking up at the screen, and the screen in front of him is the one with the fishnets.
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Harrison 10:11PM (12/23/2008)
It's interesting how he conveniently leaves out the large sack of money Ferrari would have gotten if they won.
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Ed 9:22AM (12/24/2008)
LOL. I don't think this is malicious. It's quite funny. Even though they come up with (or get blamed for) some strange F1 rules from time to time, I think Bernie and Max are pretty cool people.
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