The ex-F1 supremo revealed the storyꦡ from his 🌠remarkable life during ‘Lucky’, his Discovery+ documentary.

"I’d bought a car from someone and then found out it was finance so the gu﷽y didn’t own the car," Ecclestone said. 

"So I stopped the cheque and the guy duly appeared to explain to me how he’d like the cheque cleared, and pr🧜oduced a gun from under his sweater ꦦto show me.

"I explained to him I didn’t know what he was going to do with it, you know. It certainly wasn’t a pain to come to some agreement about something, and: ‘If you shoot me, the cheque won’t be cle🌄ared. Let’s have a chat’.

"So we went to the office and discussed things and obviously, we sorted it out. I paid him, cleared off the finance - or said I was going to. And paid the difference. And then he became a very good customer from then 😼on in!”

Ecclestonไe, now aged 92, sold F1 to Liberty Media in 2017.

Last year he denied that he had been aꦓrrested in Brazil for illegally carrying a gun. He acknowledged a gun was fไound in his possession but said it was never used.

He called it a "silly, tiny little incident" to Reuters, whoꦐ were told by Brazilian police that a businessman was arrested fo♚r carrying a gun.

"It was a bleed🐭ing drama, unnecessary, over a nothing,” he said, after admitting he carried a gu🌌n as a deterrent.

Ecclestone was charged with fraud in 2022 after reportedly failing to declare £400m worth of ✨oversea🐽s assets.