Is F1's Bernie Ecclestone on crack?

[Dr Mordrid]

Talk about putting your foot in your mouth, esp. these days;

http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2005/racing/06/22/bc.car.irl.danica.ecclestone.ap/index.html?cnn=yes

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Danica Patrick is upset at Formula One boss Bernie Ecclestone and confused by his comments likening women to "domestic appliances."

Patrick received a telephone call from Ecclestone last week during which he congratulated the Indy Racing League rookie for her performance at the Indianapolis 500, but also reiterated remarks he had made during an interview at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, where the U.S. Grand Prix was being held.

Among the comments Ecclestone made in the interview and to the Roscoe, Ill., native was that "Women should be all dressed in white like all other domestic appliances."

"I just didn't make sense of it," Patrick said during an IRL teleconference this week. "I was surprised, I guess, somebody would say that to me.

And to make matters worse;

Ecclestone has made controversial remarks about women before. He told Autosport racing magazine in 2000 that women could not compete in Formula One, but if one did, "she would have to be a woman who was blowing away the boys. ... What I would really like to see happen is to find the right girl, perhaps a black girl with super looks, preferably Jewish or Muslim, who speaks Spanish."

Is this guy just too old, nuts or in the early stages of Alzheimers?

IMO it's long past time for Bernie to retire to the links.

Dr. Mordrid