In 2019, Rodi Basso had a very good job, managing director at McLaren Motorsport. There was no compelling reason to make any massive changes.
It might come as a surprise, then, to see that two years later Basso is helping drive a new, experimental start-up: it's not just untested, it's a world first.
But talk to the Italian, and it becomes clear why he's hitching his wagon to E1, the world's first electric powerboat championship aiming to shake up the marine industry and bring 'rock and roll back to racing'.
Electric powerboating might not be the event top of the typical sport fan's agenda, sure, but futuristic boats which wouldn't look out of place on a Star Wars set, wing-to-wing, high octane racing in spectacular cities and some of the most remote locations in the world, and focused on saving the planet too?