Bernie Ecclestone: Bernie Ecclestone. Actor: Bobby Deerfield. He grew up in Bexleyheath, where he left school at the age of 16. He started his professional life as a low-level worker at the local municipal utility. His hobby was motorcycles. He learned to repair them self-taught. Later he bought defective machines, which he repaired and sold again. With these skills and initial savings, Ecclestone became a partner with Fred Compton, who ran a...
