Bernie’s second greatest contribution to mankind

Mr Ecclestone’s terribly posh eldest daughter could have easily whiled away the days until she received her massive inheritance with lads mag photoshoots, fashionable parties and abhorrent boyfriends. To her credit, however, Tamara has all but shunned the Paris Hilton route in favour of earning her own crust: the 24-year-old beauty has landed a string of TV presenting jobs, most recently as a pit reporter for Sky Italia, on which she rabbits away in Italian, one of three languages she speaks fluently.

Tamara also jumped on the get naked for a good cause bandwagon by dropping her kecks in the name of PETA. More pictures and fabulously entertaining information after the jump…

Tamara has so far rejected the romantic advances of Formula One drivers [Note to Jenson and Lewis: Try harder!], but has stepped out with fellow millionaire-in-waiting Gavin Dein (son of former Arsenal bigwig David Dein), and has hinted at happiness with a suitor named Rob. Unless his surname is ‘De Niro’, ‘Pires’ or ‘Da Bank’, we can assume he is not particularly famous.

Grid Crasher extra: What starts as a regular interview ends with Tamara acting as a pawn in Martin Brundle’s war with Michael Schumacher…