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his head. I would say best part of 15 million dollars put into him, you know, to get him where he is.
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>> Do you remember the first time you met him, this 15-year-old kid? >> Always say he's the complete package, so
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he's a good driver, but he's you couldn't help but like him if you met him. You know, he's just like a
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really nice, personable person. You know, very articulate. >> I met him and it was like two grand or
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something to send him to Australia. So, I said, "Oh, bugger it. Okay, let's do the Let's do the two grand." He went to
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Australia and he went to Formula Ford and he'd never driven that type of car before. And [music] he came second in
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the championship straight off and he won his first race. Just sort of started from there. We thought, "Man, that's
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pretty cool, you know, got something here." And yeah, a group of us got together. It
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just sort of went from there. >> It was kind of funny because he's so famous now and I think, you know, he's
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famous in New Zealand, but you don't understand the worldwide fame. You know, I was going to the track with
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him, so I was staying at a different hotel, so I'd go to his hotel, wait for him to come down.
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And 10,000 screaming Chinese people outside wanted to mob him, you know, like security guards around.
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>> Get into the car and there's people jumping in your path. It's like it's surreal, really.