Matthew Savage
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first heard Jul 2026
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It's a sobering statistic as well.
It was a competitive process, but I think it was tricky for Claire and the family.
And everything sort of hit very quickly.
If you remember COVID, everybody was in Australia, couldn't race, had to come home if you could.
You know, I think Williams lost their main sponsor at the time, Rocket, immediately.
And I think they were up against the wall.
So it was a forced sale.
You know, I think at the end of the day, there were maybe us and a couple of other people that were interested.
You know, we stepped up and moved quickly because time was of the essence.
But there was another piece to it, which was from a timing perspective, we needed to be certain, reasonably certain, that the cost cap would go into effect because we would not have done this without it.
Probably not.
I mean, we knew it was coming, of course, because during due diligence, we were talking to Claire on the team here and knew how close it was.
But no, that was a condition precedent effectively for us doing this or making this investment.
Absolutely.
So I think back in the day, and these are going to be rough estimates and guesstimates from what I hear around the place, I think Mercedes, Ferrari, Red Bull were spending, let's say, £700 million a year
I think if you maybe go further back before the 2008 crisis or just before, people were probably spending about a billion a year, something like that.
The time we bought Williams, I think... To race two little cars.
To race two little cars.
Insane numbers, isn't it?
Absolutely.
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