Ecclestone mistrusts city  Bernie Ecclestone has been speaking
to The Sunday Telegraph about his distrust of the city "The
strange thing is that they seem to want to see how a business
works, to find out what a company is really like and then the
first thing they want to do is change it".  In the same article
it was explained that Robin Saunders, BCE's banker at
Westdeutsche Landesbank that underwrote the bond issue is May,
has been speaking to many investment bankers about selling F1
who had approached her. For this, and her rescue of the bond
issue, Bernie respects her: "She has done what she said she
would do, and that is unique. I am a straight-talking kind of
person and so is she. It is refreshing to find someone like that
in the City... They all seem to think that they are beyond being
touched and do not need to keep their word."  The companies
thought to have approached BCE include KKR (an American venture
capital company), BSkyB and Nomura. In the end, Bernie decided
to work with Saunders.  Saunders,