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You can't make decisions if there are no charges or issues to deal with. So it's quite normal to wait until there is some reason to react.

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Bernie Ecclestone
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: October 28
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Bernard Charles Ecclestone
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Take away Toto Wolff's Mercedes shirt and send Sebastian [Vettel] down a street - nobody would recognize him.
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You have to hope that your opponents are unlucky. Never only rely on your own luck.
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I have always been happy to have daughters rather than sons. You never really can be mad at girls for anything in life.
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I have no regrets about the amount of work I put into the sport. This is what I needed to do with my life.
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You can't compare eras. But drivers of each era adapt to the needs and climate of their time. There are good and bad points to every era of the sport. I'm not really nostalgic about the past.
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