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The guest is talking about how he bought a Jaguar racing team, and people thought it was a crazy idea at the time.","sourceStartTime":1671.9,"sourceEndTime":1685.9}},{"id":431459,"startTime":1677.9,"endTime":1685.9,"type":"brand","title":"Jaguar team","url":"/glossary/jaguar-team","quote":"the days where the founder, Dietrich Martisciz, bought the Jaguar team for a euro, and everybody thought he was crazy","canonicalId":"brand:jaguar-team","priority":0.35,"confidence":0.7,"source":"hybrid-fuzzy+gpt-5.4-nano","data":{"explanation":"The “Jaguar team” refers to Jaguar’s Formula One team, which Red Bull’s leadership acquired as part of building what became Red Bull Racing. The segment frames the purchase as a low-cost deal that later made sense historically.","simplifiedExplanation":"The Jaguar team here means the Formula 1 racing team associated with Jaguar. The guest says Red Bull’s founder bought it, and people didn’t think it would work—until it did.","sourceStartTime":1677.9,"sourceEndTime":1685.9}}],"speakers":[{"id":"s1","name":"Jason Stein","role":"host"}],"transcripts":[{"url":"http://getcarcurious.com/episodes/episode-256-motorsport-network-ceo-werner-brell/transcript.vtt","type":"text/vtt"}],"alignmentMode":"scalar","fallbackOffset":0.0}