Eddie Jordan is sitting on the balcony of his apartment near the Camps Bay suburb of Cape Town. ‘The ownership of the team is going to be taken over by Sir Jim Ratcliffe and Ineos,’ says Jordan. ‘The team will be called Ineos but it will still be run from the factory in Brackley and Mercedes will retain a 30 per cent share in it. It will not be known as Mercedes any more and Toto Wolff, the team principal, will no longer be in charge. A group of 18 Mercedes engineers were sent to Portsmouth to work on the Ineos Team UK AC75 sailing boat to race in the America’s Cup. The sale of the team would not end Mercedes’ involvement in F1. When Ratcliffe unveiled the Ineos sponsorship with the team, he spoke of how Mercedes’ image had already changed.

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