Then he rang Dieter Zetsche, rather like he did with you, and said that he was struggling to deal with me, and wanted someone else involved in the negotiations. Now, unfortunately, Dieter Zetsche didn’t tell me that until much later. If Dieter had come to me and said, ‘Bernie has made this phone call. What shall we do?’ we could have played a double act. Dead simple to get round it. Instead, Dieter got Niki Lauda involved because Bernie suggested Niki.
