Bernie Ecclestone sold F1 to Liberty Media in 2017 (Image: Getty)
hopes that his five-year-old son does not see him as an ‘old man’.
The ex-Formula One Group chief executive, now 94 years old, celebrated the birth of his fourth child, Ace, in 2020. Aged 89 at the time, he is by some accounts the sixth-oldest man to father a child in human history.
The former motorsport tycoon has now opened up on his relationship with him. “I hope that he doesn’t look at me as the old man,” he told . “I try to be the way he would want me to be. He’s a bright little boy, so he needs to be treated as such.”
There is a staggering age range between Ecclestone’s oldest child, Deborah, who turns 70 this year, and Ace, who is only just old enough to start school.
Ecclestone has upheld a reputation for being nonstop and all-action even into his old age. But now he has hinted at winding down.
“You have to face up to reality,” he continued. “When you’re 80, you tell yourself, ‘Maybe I can crack the whip for another five or six years’. Then you’re 90 and you think, ‘Bloody hell’. Now people say to me, ‘You’re going to live to 120’. It’s all nonsense, obviously.
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Bernie Ecclestone married third wife Fabiana Flosi in 2012 (Image: Getty)
“What I don’t want, when they put me in the box or the oven, is to leave problems for people. Not for [my wife] Fabiana, not for my children, not for anyone. I don’t want to leave any mysteries for them. I want them to be able to go on and live their lives as normal.”
Ecclestone is believed to have relocated to a chalet in the Swiss town of Gstaad after selling Formula One to Liberty Media in 2017. The Suffolk-born business mogul married Brazilian businesswoman Fabiana Flosi there in 2012.
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After failing to qualify for two Grands Prix in the 1950s, Ecclestone moved into the business side of motorsport and acquired Brabham in 1972. He ran the team for a number of years before becoming the chief executive of the Formula One Constructors Association.
Ecclestone met third wife Fabiana in 2009, not long after splitting from former Armani model Slavica Radic, who he was married to for 23 years. Radic banked a reported settlement from their divorce, but Ecclestone’s net worth is still believed to be around £2billion.