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Creative Director of Jiva Maya / Religion of Sports Film & TV

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@ManishPics
Manish Pandey
2 years
Lucky! - Formula 1: How it happened as told by Bernie Ecclestone, motor-racing’s Wizard of Oz. An 8 part series coming to Warner Bros Discovery 27th December 2022
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Life never gets better than this. Happy Birthday Champion ❤️🙏🏽
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26 days
Coming soon… as is other stuff!
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1 year
Taken 9.3.06, 3 days after I pitched Senna to Viviane and she said 'Yes'. I went to Morumbi Cemetery and placed that tiny MP4/8, which had been on my desk, on Ayrton's grave. It's been 17 years, I thought I'd share this today. Happy Birthday Champion.
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2 years
Another angle, literally, on Senna/Prost Suzuka 1990...
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1 year
@karunchandhok I've just tweeted that - and a bit more!
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2 years
1981. Brabham (ie Gordon Murray) find a 'creative' solution and skirt the skirt ban - and, Bernie or not, Frank Williams isn't having it...
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2 years
Basically, if you have Sky, you can watch 'Lucky!' - just sign up, for free, to Discovery+
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Only two more sleeps until we record the new... I can't say it!
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2 months
Filming in Bologna and Rome with these extraordinary men and some rather beautiful ‘sculptures’ from the last five decades. #SeeingRed
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2 years
Bernie sets the record straight #Lucky !
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2 months
…and, of course, these two had to join us, making it a bit of family affair. More news on that in due course…
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2 years
Ep8 - Bernie's cold fury at the disgraceful racist 'fans' who tried to taunt Lewis in Spain (2008)
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11 months
22 years ago, F1 stood shoulder to shoulder with the United States in her grief. But F1 was also the first sport to bring a little light at such a dark time and, I believe, this was F1's finest moment. It's the best sequence in Lucky!
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2 years
After 3 years, 1 month and 27 days we have finally signed off on Ep8 of ‘Lucky!’ and we are off… to the pub!
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3 months
❤️ Nothing more to say. Thank you Zak.
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Zak Brown
3 months
30 years since we tragically lost Ayrton Senna. There will never be anybody like him again. One of a kind. He was one of the reasons why I fell in love with Formula 1. I join everyone at McLaren and the wider motorsport community in remembering one of the greatest drivers in
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2 years
@annettedittert There used to be a level of intellect and a sense of deep responsibility at the BBC. Today, their news programs are just thinly disguised game shows, with ‘experts’ straight out of central casting. Trust me, I make dramas for a living - the formula is pure ‘Price is Right!’
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Manish Pandey
1 year
The Lucky! cappuccino only at The Hotel Gstaad. 8 cups of this and ANYONE could run F1
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2 years
You are looking at and listening to the highest peak of perfection in motor racing ever. A pole position rate, with bravery to match, that no one has ever reached. The fastest F1 driver ever.
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Petrolhead 🏁
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"When Ayrton went out to qualify, everyone went to the pitwall to watch it. That 'Pah-Pah-Pah-Pah' on the throttle! you could see he was on the edge." Patrick Head #AyrtonSenna #F1
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2 years
Williams copy Lotus and make a Ferrari beater - and it's almost too fast (1979)
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4 months
@vincenzolandino Watch this sequence in 'Senna' - it's the best few minutes in our film
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1 year
@CarolineLucas His ‘judgment’ is predicated on the deals he had to do to become our latest unelected PM. Shabby, at best.
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3 months
He is absolutely brilliant. He has literally matured into the most extraordinary driver since Senna. An acrobat in the car and a top drawer mind outside it. And he is just 26.
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F1 Jayy
3 months
Max thoughts on the 2026 regs. Not sure why he gets so much stick for what he says he’s always so spot on.
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@HillF1 Agreed. Aesthetically, it was way the best era in F1.
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2 years
@MarkLaneF1 @ZBrownCEO @Prost_official Just fantastic to see. History doesn’t need sanitising. We should tell it, explore it and learn from it.
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Manish Pandey
8 months
Lucky! Ep 3 - 'The Talented Mr Ferrari' on now on Discovery Quest (Sky 144, Virgin 137)
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2 years
Important to remember those who were there when we began to make 'Lucky!' but who aren't with us now. Without you, this series could never have happened. Thank you.
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1 year
@KrisVanD2 Those were 'the good old days of F1' - except they patently weren't. Thank God everything changed - especially the mortality and morbidity
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Manish Pandey
2 years
F1’s Wizard of Oz
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1 year
@MarinaPurkiss Less Red Tape and the sunlit uplands of Brexit. What a crock...
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4 months
Ferrari and Michael waited an eternity for this - and Mika was his usual, brilliant and magnanimous self in defeat. What an era.
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Autosport
4 months
What an era this was for #F1 ! 🤯 Schumacher vs Hakkinen at the 2000 #JapaneseGP fighting to become a triple world champion 🏆🏆🏆 You can watch the entire Motorsport Heroes film by Manish Pandey over on 📺
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Manish Pandey
2 years
Anyone recognise this young man from 2006? He doubted that he'd get into a McLaren for the following year. Lucky! Ep8
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2 years
Having made it into McLaren for 2007, Hamilton vs Alonso ignites - and so does SpyGate
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Manish Pandey
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@AllisonPearson Doctors uncovered a serial killer, insisted something be done and Chambers, a jumped up no-one whom the system made a CEO, had the power to shut them up, then left the Trust and an NDA ensures we can't know why. Root and branch reform of NHS management. Now.
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Manish Pandey
2 months
The more this young man opens his mouth, the more I like him. Max Verstappen is a breath of utter fresh air. No politics, no barking on about lifestyle or money. A real driver. A modern Senna.
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Verstappen News
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Is this the first real mistake from you this year? MAX: "I wouldn't say so. I would happily invite everyone in this paddock to drive that car and try to go faster."
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We should call the British Grand Prix trophy the Hamilton Cup. Utterly fitting.
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@ManishPics @karunchandhok Well done Sir Lewis, finishing on the Hamilton straight- does it get better than that in life?
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Manish Pandey
3 months
Could this policy save this man? Unlikely, but calling all Collecting Addicts - STOP THE POTHOLES!
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Manish Pandey
1 year
Are we allowed to have a PM who is Chancellor, Home Secretary and Health Secretary at the same time. Because, if we are, you are looking at him. Brains, passion, compassion, a communicator, morality. I'd vote for him.
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Leroy Skeete
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Do you believe Martin Lewis would be a good chancellor? Rt
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1 year
@karunchandhok Imagine RBR fury after Silverstone 2021: not just directed at Merc win but at Lewis' extended post-race celebrations. Things like that sit deep within the psyche of competitors and ultimately find expression. Revenge is rarely a dish served cold.
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Manish Pandey
2 years
@RhonddaBryant Holocaust Survivor, very politely but firmly: 'You need to look at your language around refugees, Home Secretary'; Braverman: 'Just to be clear, I'm not apologising for being completely right'. I weep at the recurring inhumanity of Braverman
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2 years
@mrjamesob I felt it did that with the near instantaneous appointment of Braverman, with whom he allegedly did a deal to support him as PM. It’s possible that there was another such deal with Zahahahahawi, who turned from Boris’ chancellor to Sunak’s supporter… in about 12 hours!
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2 years
Bernie Ecclestone Lucky! documentary: F1 mogul tells his story
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Ep6: Prost's account of why things went wrong at McLaren - and Bernie's subtle take on it...
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10 months
After 13 years of these people, we have 7m on hospital waiting lists, a £2.8tr national debt, inflation, a cost of living crisis, anaemic growth and productivity - and they sing and dance. Voting them out is actually too good for them...
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Nicholas Pegg
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When it comes to summing up what’s going on at the Conservative Party conference, phone footage of Priti Patel and Nigel Farage dancing and singing along to ‘Can't Take My Eyes Off You’ could hardly be more on point.
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Manish Pandey
2 months
This grid walk is hard to watch. Brundle + Driver = interesting conversation. Brundle + Sportsperson = 'First time on the grid?' then inanity. Brundle + 'Celeb' = 'Erm, er, can I... Martin Brundle from Sky... Do you... Please... I think he wants to speak' then silence. Bad TV.
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Manish Pandey
1 year
@JolyonMaugham This is disgraceful. Can you imagine Rosa Parks being told that she cannot bring racial segregation into her defence had she been prosecuted for illegally occupying 'a white' seat on that bus?
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1 year
@TheBishF1 @Max33Verstappen I wish there had been live qualifying in the 1980's, Matt - because I think we might all have seen this on a few occasions, due to a certain yellow helmeted genius whose qualifying record (not number, but density and quality) remain unsurpassed
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1 year
@Peston He has Raab to his right - and Braverman to Saab's right - and Tice and gang to their right. Britain is becoming a place of bullying, open racism, ignoring the EHRC, strikes from all quarters - and a Brexit that isn't, and wasn't ever, going to deliver
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1 year
@MichaelRosenYes Laputa is the name of the Soviet missile complex in Dr Stragelove - a gorgeous Kubrick in-joke about the absurdity of nuclear weapons
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Most painful grid walk I can remember - and we’re not even in the US where no one knows why they are there, other than their agents told them to go. It’s a lot of effort for Brundle just to get a weather forecast from Marco and hug from Adam Ryder. Still, no Damian Lewis - phew.
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Manish Pandey
2 months
A few thoughts on the Monaco GP. Leclerc had a chance to deliver and he did. And what a popular victory. Piastri is the real deal! 2nd at his 2nd Monaco GP. But what a dreadful race. Early laps were 7s off pole with dreaded 'tyre management' instead of racing 1/
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2 years
@andrewbensonf1 There a paradox in F1 created by the cost cap. The teams have never been richer - yet less willing to share the purse. Add the more even distribution of power between the teams and it’s hard to see them allowing anyone else in
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Manish Pandey
1 year
@LizWebsterLD There may be one in Rwanda. I hear it’s lovely there. One can start a new life, no matter how traumatic one’s past. And it’s not in the EU! Go one Suella - everyone wins!!
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Manish Pandey
2 years
Lauda, Bernie - Austria 1975
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2 years
Eddie Jordan lucks out for a race and runs a very green Michael Schumacher...
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2 years
Teddy, Ron and McLaren...
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Brilliant spot, Daniel. Max really is class act. He has developed into the no-nonsense leading driver of F1. And we are so lucky to have an F1 with Max, Lando, Oscar, Charles and Carlos - all in their 20's and all still improving. Bodes well for the next decade in F1!
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2 years
Ayrton's first win ❤️
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Let's get a campaign going. British Grand Prix trophy to be renamed #TheHamiltonCup
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Manish Pandey
1 year
What a photo and it's one of the best sequences in Ep8 of Lucky!
@NetoDemetriou
Demetriou Neto
1 year
Paris, 26 July 2007. #f1 Bernie Ecclestone walks towards a throng of cameramen and journalists as he leaves the Formula One espionage controversy 'Spygate' hearings at the Place de la Concorde headquarters of the FIA. Photo: Darren Heath. Text and photo via Getty Images.
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8 months
Lucky! Episode 2 on Warner Brothers Discovery Quest tonight at 10pm. F1CA vs FOCA, Hunt vs Lauda, Reutemann and Fittipaldi, all narrated by Bernie's, with his typically dry wit
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1 year
@Jalopnik CD is English so must know who MB is and the lighthearted grid walk which he created. Bizarrely, Alfa's minder didn't want her to talk to MB. For me, CD rather unnecessarily/rudely added 'I can't hear you'. Then Alfa and CD created, to my eyes, a naff piece of 'content'
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Manish Pandey
2 years
@karunchandhok Thank you Karun! Another absolute labour of love. Took us almost 3 years and - most importantly - I think we do great justice to Bernie. You know him better than most. He's no racist otherwise I wouldn't have done this.
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@JonathanPieNews No, you haven't. Sunak has just steered us away from a trade war that we can't afford. And sealed Johnson's fate. Sunak was an 'intellectual' Brexiter, not a headbanger. Not much EQ, but not mad.
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1 year
@NobleF1 Feels a bit subjective. Red Bull may have felt what Hamilton is feeling about the 2014, 15 and 16 Mercedes which lost just 8 races in 3 years. In Australia 2015, Lewis' pole was 1.4s faster than Massa in 3rd
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1 year
@karunchandhok @jpmontoya The most exciting driver of his generation. Somehow, his genius wasn't 100% suited to F1 which was a huge pity. On reflection, I wonder whether racing in the US, where the culture is more open and straightforward, isn't a huge hinderance when entering piranha F1. Our loss.
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Manish Pandey
2 years
You don’t miss much, do you?! There is so much packed into these 8 Eps, often quite subtly, that it should be worth re-watching…
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Sean Kelly
2 years
Fantastic Easter Egg joke in @ManishPics documentary about Bernie Ecclestone. When Max Mosley is elected FISA President in 1991, Bernie is depicted hanging a Ferrari picture on the wall where a Renault picture previously hung while Jean-Marie Balestre was President 😂
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@KrisVanD2 Listen to what Bernie says in ‘Lucky!’ about the aftermath of that crash - and the aftermath of Monza 1970. ‘Colin always took things to the limit and sometimes further…’
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1 year
@TheBishF1 @NickBuckleyMBE Categorical. Bishop. Takedown. Brilliant. As. Ever.
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2 years
‘Lucky!’ has the title banner on Discovery+ UK!!
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2 years
@LKTranslator No, according to 'bubbly' Tim Martin. Our drinking habits have changed, post Covid. I'm shocked that he didn't mention Ukraine.
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@karunchandhok Is this Adrian asking Mercedes ‘How do you like them apples?’ I’ve never seen a more blatant statement in F1 in my 45 years of watching the sport
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2 years
Luca Montzemolo arrives in F1...
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@TheBishF1 @InterlagosTrack In our film, the date is wrong. My fault. I had just watched archive of Ayrton’s face being pushed into his birthday cake so I wrote ‘21.3.60’ when the clip was, of course, from Friday. Duh! Kind of romantic, though, to misremember his win at home on his birthday!
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Manish Pandey
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After the Saudi Arabian GP, I can only fault Max Verstappen in one way - he seems to have shaved the left side of his face, better than the right. It's uncanny.
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2 years
In Senna, we took a huge risk on ‘no talking heads’. In Lucky! our risk was to use just one, lit so that the viewer could experience every nuance of Bernie’s expressions. And decide for themselves about what they are being told…
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Mango
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@ManishPics It sure is opened up a lot of insight so far ow used cars were sold also some great anicdotes. How it was filmed with Bernie looking into the camera telling his story great way
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Watkins Glen 1973
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@barneydrums @mrjamesob It didn’t bloody say that on The Boris Brexit Bus
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Bernie and Jochen Rindt were soulmates. Here's how it began...
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It's just struck me that for points scored for 'norma' racing - ie excluding sprints and fastest laps - Max Verstappen has lost just 29 points this season, with his two seconds and one fifth place. Absolutely unreal.
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2 years
Jean-Marie Balestre commenting on the British teams in 1975...
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@mrjamesob What's great about this is that it gives the lie to 'Brexit was badly negotiated' myth which they're all hiding behind now. Davis states Brett would produce an automatic result: a queue of top European manufacturers begging us for access, giving us the negotiating whip hand.
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2 years
Vegas 2023 won't be the first time F1 visits Casino City...
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@UnracedF1 Someone, not Senna, says 'What a c*nt'
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"Lucky!” shows former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone as you’ve never seen him before via @autosport
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Lauda, Bernie - Austria 1975
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‘Lucky!’ is no puff piece
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@RedBullUpdates The FIA are not the commercial rights holders of the sport and don't set hosting fees
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@wbuxtonofficial Thanks Will! 3 years in the making and we’re all still recovering!!
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1 year
@UnracedF1 Used this clip in 'Lucky!' but what you haven't heard is what is said by just after they walk off. It's unrepeatable but very, very, very funny...
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I’m going to call it. Labour 410. Conservatives 100. Libdems 85. Greens 10. Reform 2. Starmer will get more votes than Corbyn from 2019, but nowhere near 2017.
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2 years
@D_Blanchflower @NSon1955 They also called academics who criticised Brexit the ‘Metropolitan elite’ whilst saying ‘Boris is a good bloke’
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Manish Pandey
2 years
Erm genius is a bit much guys, but more passion and insight into F1 you’ll find hard to find! This was so much fun to record with three absolutely great guys.
@Formula_Nerds
FormulaNerds 🤓🏁
2 years
🚨NEW PODCAST ALERT 🚨 We speak to the genius @ManishPics - Writer of BAFTA Award Winning ‘Senna’ & ‘Lucky!’ Listen on Apple Podcasts - Listen on Spotify - #F1 #Formula1 #Lucky #Podcast #applepodcast #Spotify
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@Karol_CyrkF1 It will be on Viaplay - release date to be announced!
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Midst all the rumours and recriminations, Barcelona 1994 - Schumacher leaves the pits stuck in 5th gear. Jonathan Palmer is skeptical...
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Manish Pandey
1 year
There were rumours that this race was under threat but, happily, F1 is Ferrari and Ferrari is F1. And F1 is Monaco - and Monaco is F1...
@Max33Verstappen
Max Verstappen
1 year
There’s nothing like Monaco 🇲🇨🤏
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@SilverstoneUK @Formula_Nerds Don't forget Lucky! - Bernie Ecclestone's 8-part account of F1
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