British businessman Bernie Ecclestone owned Brabham during most of the 1970s and 1980s, and later became responsible for administering the commercial aspects of Formula One.

He sold the company for £ 100, 000 at the end of 1971 to British businessman Bernie Ecclestone, Jochen Rindt's former manager and erstwhile owner of the Connaught team.

( It has been observed Bernie Ecclestone had purchased a job-lot of DFVs in 1984, with no obvious use for them at the time ).

* October 28 – Bernie Ecclestone, English auto racing tycoon

With the help of Brabham owner Bernie Ecclestone, Patrese was drafted in to replace Mansell for the season's finale in Australia.

At the 1979 Canadian Grand Prix, Lauda informed Brabham owner Bernie Ecclestone that he wished to retire immediately, as he had no more desire to " drive around in circles ".

After Ricard's death, the track was sold to Excelis, a company owned by Formula One promoter Bernie Ecclestone, in 1999.

Following this low point in the club's history as Rangers also faced mounting financial pressure, in the same month it was announced that the club had been bought by wealthy Formula One businessmen Flavio Briatore and Bernie Ecclestone ( see Ownership and finances below ).

After a number of years of financial difficulties which included a period in financial administration, QPR was bought by Formula One tycoons and multi-millionaires Bernie Ecclestone and Flavio Briatore in a £ 14 million takeover in August 2007.

* Bernie Ecclestone attended Bexleyheath School

The old " west camp " of the airport is now owned by Bernie Ecclestone.

Bernie Ecclestone was brought up in Bungay.

He produced trophies for the Formula One World Championship due to his acquaintance with Bernie Ecclestone.

During the 2006 United States Grand Prix, Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone said that it did not matter to him whether or not there was a Grand Prix in America, but also said he would be happy to discuss a new contract for the race.

Bernie Ecclestone, the team principal of Brabham, signed a deal with BMW for a supply of BMW M12 | M12 / 13 engines in 1980.

Team principal Bernie Ecclestone was under pressure from the team's title sponsor, Parmalat, to defend Piquet's championship, and opted to race with the Cosworth-powered BT49 chassis at the Brazilian Grand Prix, which Piquet won but was later disqualified for circumventing the minimum weight limit by running " water-cooled brakes ".

But the team was in flux after the retirements of Sir Jack Brabham and then Ron Tauranac's sale to Bernie Ecclestone ; Hill did not settle there.

On April 26, 2009, Speed reported Bernie Ecclestone as saying the FIA was negotiating a return of the Canadian Grand Prix for the 2010 season, provided upgrades to the circuit are completed.

In August 2009, Formula One president Bernie Ecclestone remarked that there was no immediate plan to return Formula One to the US, vowing " never to return " to Indianapolis.

On 15 November 2011, it was reported that construction of the circuit had been temporarily halted as the owners had not yet been awarded the contract to stage the race in 2012, following reports that Bernie Ecclestone had cast doubt on the race taking place.

Instead, Bernie Ecclestone added a race at Donington Park to the schedule, which brought back the European Grand Prix moniker.

On 12 November 1997, he was cheered from the Conservative benches when he asked Blair about the Bernie Ecclestone affair, " Does the Prime Minister agree that the perception of wrong-doing can be as damaging to public confidence as the wrong-doing itself?

However, Formula One director general Bernie Ecclestone says that no such decision has been made.

In October 2004 the British Grand Prix was left off the preliminary race schedule for 2005 because the BRDC refused to pay the race fee demanded by Bernie Ecclestone.

Bernie Grant, a Labour Member of Parliament said that he was " totally pro-Commonwealth and anti-European Union ".

In Queensland the high-volume Power's brewery was established by local entrepreneur Bernie Power.

He was replaced by lead guitarist Bernie Leadon, while Hillman reverted to bass.

While he had been in the vanguard with The Byrds and the Burrito Brothers, Parsons was now perceived as being too authentic and traditional in an era dominated by the stylings of the Eagles, whose sound Parsons disdained ( although he did maintain cordial relations with Bernie Leadon, a former member of the Eagles who left the group in 1975 ).

Bernie Smith's quality was recognised with his win in the 1951 Brownlow Medal.

* Bernie McGann ( 1937 –): Saxophonist who was born in Granville.

The show's name was coined by show business talent manager and producer Bernie Brillstein and derives from a common English onomatopoeia used to describe the braying sound that a donkey makes.

Bernie Brillstein, the third, was from New York.

Five months later in January 1960, after significant pressure from the NFL, the ownership group, along with Bernie Ridder, reneged on its agreement with the AFL and then was awarded the National Football League's 14th franchise with play to begin in 1961.

In some markets, local liberal hosts have existed for years, such as the British talk host Michael Jackson ( who was on the air at KABC in Los Angeles beginning in 1968 and is currently at KGIL ); Bernie Ward in San Francisco ; Jack Ellery in New Jersey and Tampa ; Dave Ross in Seattle, and Marc Germain in Los Angeles.

Grissom was depicted by Fred Ward in the film The Right Stuff ( 1983 ) and ( very briefly ) in the film Apollo 13 ( 1995 ) by Steve Bernie.

One writer in the Huffington Post looked at FBI statistics on robbery, fraud, and crime and concluded that Wall Street was the " most dangerous neighborhood in the United States " if one factored in the $ 50 billion fraud perpetrated by Bernie Madoff.

* The song " Rocket Man " by Elton John and Bernie Taupin was inspired by the short story " The Rocket Man ".

The character Jack McCallister ( played by Alec Baldwin ) was based on real-life WorldCom CEO, " Bernie " Ebbers ( see above ).

Other notable guest stars included: Cesar Romero as Chico's absentee father ; Tony Orlando as Chico's look-alike, the ex-fiance of a hostile woman he wants to date ; José Feliciano, who wrote the theme song, as Chico's womanizing famous-singer cousin Pepe Fernando ; Sammy Davis Jr. as himself ; Herbie Faye appeared as Bernie in the 1975 episode " Louie's Retirement "; Shelley Winters ( reuniting with Albertson, with whom she'd costarred in The Poseidon Adventure ) as the owner of the local bakery, Shirley Schrift ( her real name ); Jim Backus as Ed's friend who uses him as a " beard "— pretending to be playing cards with him when cheating on his wife ( Audra Lindley ); silent-film actress Carmel Myers as a former star who has fallen on hard times, brings in her car for repairs, and stays in the garage while looking for work ; George Takei as Ed's supposed long-lost son from his time in Japan during World War II ; Cesare Danova as Aunt Connie's Spanish aristocrat boyfriend, the Count de Catalan, in the second episode in which she appeared ; comedian Joey Bishop as an inept robber ; Bernie Kopell as a plastic surgeon ; Rose Marie as a CB radio enthusiast with whom a lonely Ed connects on New Year's Eve ; Penny Marshall, as a waitress ; football star Rosey Grier as himself, Della's date for a charity benefit dance ; Larry Hovis as a customer in the second episode of the first season ; and Jim Jordan ( of radio's Fibber McGee and Molly ) as a mechanic who used to be a big businessman, until he was victimized by his own company's retirement-age mandate ).

In 1997, a sasquatch character named Howler was introduced as the team's mascot, but has since been replaced by a St. Bernard named Bernie.

' Richard had been leading the league in scoring, and would lose out to Bernie Geoffrion who was able to play 70 games.

Bernie Zuber was an editorial artist, a position similar to that of a production artist, from 1957 until 1982.

Destiny is a DC Comics character created by Marv Wolfman and Bernie Wrightson, first appearing in Weird Mystery Tales # 1 ( 1972 ), and was regular host of that series for the first fourteen issues, after which he hosted Secrets of Haunted House.

Hanson lost to Liberal candidate Cameron Thompson, and the One Nation candidate in Oxley lost the seat to ALP candidate Bernie Ripoll, but One Nation candidate Heather Hill was elected as a senator for Queensland.