The ex-F1 supremo revealed the story from his remarkable life during ‘Lucky’, his Discove𝔉ry+ docu♔mentary.

"I’d bougꦿht a car from someone and tꦐhen found out it was finance so the guy 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 produced a gun from under his sweater to 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 cleared. 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!”

Ecclestone, n🦄ow aged 92, sold F1 to L💖iberty Media in 2017.

Last year he denied that he had been arres♕ted in Brazil for illegally carrying a gun. He ack🥀nowledged a gun was found in his possession but said it was never used.

💎He called it a "silly, tiny little incident" to Reuters,ꦰ who were told by Brazilian police that a businessman was arrested for carrying a gun.

"It was a bleeding drama, unnecessary, over a not🌱hing,” he said, after admitting he carried a gun as a deterrent.

Ecclestone was charged with fraud in꧂ 2022 aftꦺer reportedly failing to declare £400m worth of overseas assets.