Dec.22 (GMM) Bernie Ecclestone has given a “large slap” to the Method 1 world together with his conventional Christmas card for 2023.
Yearly, the previous F1 supremo entertains these on his Christmas card checklist with a humorous tackle the yr’s largest themes and tales.
A yr in the past, the caption was “Simply organising the plotting”, with the cardboard artwork depicting warring workforce bosses whispering and eavesdropping within the pitlane.
Earlier than that, Ecclestone poked enjoyable on the social and cultural moments of the time, with drivers sporting surgical masks proven kneeling on the grid and receiving vaccines.
However this yr, the now 93-year-old modified gear completely, together with his card now not a humorous cartoon however as a substitute a serene winter farm location.
The caption reads: “I’m sorry that I couldn’t consider something thrilling or unusual that has occurred this yr that might be illustrated on my ordinary card.
“So could I want you a peaceable and comfortable finish of the yr with 2024 bringing you all that’s good for you and a extra settled world. Bernie.”
So far as Crimson Bull’s Dr Helmut Marko is worried, it’s truly a damning indictment of what Ecclestone sees because the overly company and boring world of Method 1 beneath Liberty Media’s watch.
Marko smiled to Auto Bild: “What an announcement! We received a giant slap from Bernie for Christmas.”
