The ex-F1 supremo revea🍌led the story from his remarkable life during ‘Lucky’, his Discovery+ documentary.

"I’d bought a car♋ from someone and th🀅en found out it was finance so the guy didn’t own the car," Ecclestone said. 

"So I stopped t♌he cheque and the guy duly appeared to expl🉐ain 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. Anཧdꦆ then he became a very good customer from then on in!”

Ecclestone, now a꧙ged 92, sold F1 to Liberty Media in 2017.

Last year he denied that he had been arrested in Brazil for illegally carrying a gun. He acknowledged a gꦕun was found in his possession but said it was never us𒅌ed.

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

"It was a bleeding drama, unnecessary, over a n🍌othing,” he said, after admitting he carried a𒅌 gun as a deterrent.

Ecclestone was charged with fraud in 2022 after reportedly failing to declare £400mꦜ worth of overseas assets.