Bernie’s Biography out this year

Bernie Ecclestone's authorized biography will be published in the autumn of 2007, it was announced today.

The book, written by personal friend Susan Watkins, wife of Dr. Sid Watkins, will be called 'Bernie' and will reveal "the true struggle behind his fortune, the background to his relationships with politics and what reality, if any, there is to his detractor's accusations," according to its publishers, Ebury Press.

Watkins is a writer and historical biographer, and has known Ecclestone for over twenty years because she is married to Professor Sid Watkins, Formula One's former chief doctor and medical advisor.

"It must be the truth, I have nothing to hide," said Ecclestone.