The Importance of Security in Formula One

We kept the whole thing secret, as long as we could. Penske was testing the car in secrecy in places like Michigan because he owned that track and in Nazareth. The other thing is, I've never seen drivers smile after a few laps like they did at the time - obviously we had about 200 horsepower more than anybody else. For you to do the deal with Mercedes to do Formula One and IndyCar, did they need to buy into your company? Or could you have done it just the sort of can-teral spec model of just paying by the race? No. We transferred more or less the shares from Chevrolet to Mercedes. But that was important because in the initial contract