India, Aug. 28 -- There's a mystery buyer at Williams, with the possible initials of BCE. Could it be Bernard Charles Ecclestone?
There's nothing like a good old-fashioned mystery to get people excited. And while I might write quite easily, this month, about the Concorde Agreement, or Lewis Hamilton's continuing domination of the F1 season, I'm much more interested in the sale of Williams.
A few days before the news broke, I was chatting with a very savvy F1 business person - with all the right connections. He was of the opinion that there was not going to be any sensible buyer for the team.
'They have too much debt,' he said. 'Who's going to buy a team with that much debt? You're never going to make that money back, even with the new Co...