“For me, that is the completely wrong approach.

“The fish always stinks from the head. I can see the racing team going nowhere.

“As long as Mr Whitmarsh is in charge and Mr Stroll doesn’t see that he should be staying at home and only giving budgetary guidelines and letting people work who know their stuff and get the right people to lead the team, it will never work in life.”

“If someone thinks they’ll get into Formula 1 and be in the front ranks overnight, then it won’t work that quickly,” he said.

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“You have to have a plan. You could have had the plan that new rules would come in 2022 and work on them. However, Mr Stroll decided a few years ago that it should now be done quickly, no matter what the cost.

“There have been many investors who have tried to tell me that they know how business works.

“Then I said that may be, but I think Formula 1 is a bit different.

“I used to tell them if you take a million of any currency and throw it on a fire, the money will burn up just as quickly as in Formula 1 if you don’t know what you’re doing, and that is the case that is happening at Aston Martin.”