Editing Bernie Ecclestone (section)

=== Team ownership ===
After his accident, Ecclestone temporarily left racing to make a number of eventually lucrative investments in property and loan financing and to manage the Weekend Car Auctions firm.

He returned to racing in 1957 as manager of driver [[Stuart Lewis-Evans]], and purchased two chassis from the disbanded [[Connaught Engineering|Connaught]] Formula One team. Ecclestone even tried, unsuccessfully, to qualify a car himself at [[1958 Monaco Grand Prix|Monaco]] in 1958, although this has since been described as "not a serious attempt".<ref>{{cite book|last=Lovell|first=Terry|title=Bernie Ecclestone: King of Sport|publisher=John Blake|year=2009|location=London|page=25|isbn=978-1-84454-826-2}}</ref>

He also entered the [[1958 British Grand Prix|British Grand Prix]], but the car was raced by [[Jack Fairman]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Small|first=Steve|title=The Guinness Complete Grand Prix Who's Who|publisher=[[Guinness Publishing]]|year=1994|location=Enfield|page=411|isbn=0-85112-702-9}}</ref> He continued to manage Lewis-Evans when he moved to the [[Vanwall]] team; [[Roy Salvadori]] moved on to manage the [[Cooper Car Company|Cooper]] team. Lewis-Evans suffered severe burns when his engine exploded at the [[1958 Moroccan Grand Prix]] and died six days later; Ecclestone was shocked and once again retired from racing.<ref>{{cite web|last=Sylt|first=Christian|title=Bernie Ecclestone signs $600 million Formula One deal|url=https://www.autoweek.com/racing/formula-1/a1943651/bernie-ecclestone-signs-600-million-formula-one-deal/|work=Autoweek|date=10 November 2013|access-date=14 July 2020}}</ref>

His friendship with Salvadori led to his becoming manager of driver [[Jochen Rindt]]<ref name="formulaonetremayne-pp8"/> and a partial owner<ref>{{cite news|url=http://forix.autosport.com/8w/ghill.html |title=8W – Who – Graham Hill |work=Autosport|date=10 June 2002 |access-date=4 July 2009}}</ref> of Rindt's 1970 [[Team Lotus|Lotus]] Formula 2 team, whose other driver was [[Graham Hill]]. Rindt, on his way to the 1970 World Championship, died in a crash at the [[Autodromo Nazionale Monza|Monza]] circuit, though he was awarded the championship posthumously.<ref>{{cite journal|last=O'Keefe|first=Thomas C.|title=Formula Bernie (Tobacco + TV + Tracks = $2 Billion)|url=http://atlasf1.autosport.com/99/oct06/okeefe.html|journal=Atlas F1|date=6 October 1999|access-date=14 July 2020}}</ref>