Bye bye Bernie

A black Mercedes with the sticker “Mr E” on it. The only car that was ever allowed into the F1 paddock. By the looks of it, it won’t be spotted in 2017. And the diminutive figure in a crisp white shirt and black pants, who’d climb out the car, and wander through the paddock, stopping on occasion to talk to racers and team managers and F1’s many sponsors, won’t be there either. You see Bernie Ecclestone has been dismissed from…