James Vowles
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One was Williams and one was a team called British American Racing.
And both indicated that I needed to have more of an engineering background.
Not a problem.
So I finished that degree off, went and did a second master's level degree in engineering.
I had no money.
I was really quite a bit in debt at that point in time.
Yeah.
And designed a school race car, won some awards with the team.
And first I thought, this is it.
I'm in the money, no problem.
Anyway, the company went bankrupt two weeks later.
Not the design, but they went bankrupt.
But in the audience, what I hadn't realized is we presented to many, many people that were Formula One teams, and I had a job offer the next day.
And it was to British American Racing, which turned into Braun GP, which turned into Mercedes, that I joined.
But Williams was a part of my very early, I guess, communication points and meant a lot to me.
So what I put in the letter was, I gave them my background, who I was, where I was.
I was actually blunt on it.
I said, I'm not what you will have in the business today.
I'm confident of that.
I suspect you have highly skilled individuals, but I want me to be one of those.