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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.
Bernie Ecclestone
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Bernie Ecclestone
Age: 94
Born: 1930
Born: October 28
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Bernard Charles Ecclestone
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