Bojan Vrbnjak
When it's years 1998 the phone rang, it rang for Alex Wurz, a former racer Formula 1, opened a great opportunity. Austrian he was not even aware of it at first, for his telephone number was unknown.
But it quickly turned out that it would Ferrari I like talking to him. At the time, it was a little different, more mysterious. "The interlocutor, on the other hand, thought that I should get in the car and drive to one stop on the highway, where I should park my car and get into another,”Is on television ORF izdal Würz. He eventually landed at Jean Todt, to the then team boss Ferrari. "He asked me what the situation was with my contract because they were interested in me,” he says Würz, who was then successfully playing for the team Benetton and finished the season in eighth place, the best ranking of his career. But it's business fell into the water, because it is Würz insisted on his valid contract. “The following year he had no more interest because our form was falling, both from the Benetton team and mine."
Today it is similar, at least as far as matters around secrets are concerned. Würz confirms that this is a popular option: Talks or negotiations that the public does not notice. “Basically, there is always a lot of show in Formula 1,He said Austrian. "But in negotiations there is only black and white. It means whether negotiations take place entirely behind the scenes, completely quietly and mysteriously and then mostly extremely quickly, or whether they are negotiated entirely in public, with the intention of creating pressure through the media and sometimes with false consciences. This is a typical Formula 1,He added Würz.
