"Billions? And our legal department agreed to it during the due diligence? Are you crazy?" Mateschitz said with an expression of pure disbelief and anger at the foolishness of the people in the legal department.
From his expression alone, it was obvious that he was already thinking of replacing all of them in a single go for making such a foolish and costly mistake, and might even go as far as suing them for deliberately signing contracts in the company's name that had unpayable penalties.
"They let it happen because no one believed he could win two races or have four podiums in AlphaTauri, considering they had only two wins in their history and four podiums. It was deemed an insurmountable condition, and one they agreed to because it was one of the conditions we had to grant them if we were to keep him in the team."
