But in work terms, what I returned to was this one simple thought: I just didn’t want to leave Red Bull. After all, Red Bull was home. The team I’d joined had been imbued with the ‘old’ Midlands spirit: that slightly negative, head-in-the-sand, hands-over-our ears attitude. But the team as it is now has fostered a ‘new’ Midlands spirit, a can-do, work-hard-and-improve attitude. We’d gone from being the paddock joke, the upstart, party-hard fizzy drinks company, to four-time world champions, and we’d done it the old-fashioned way, using principles that to me were in keeping with the true spirit
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