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It's 2009, and we're in the German mountains.
A man straps himself into a car on the world's most dangerous racetrack.
He whispers to himself, 'It's time to put my balls on the dashboard.'
As he starts the engine, in 15 minutes, he's in an ambulance unconscious.
In 15 years, he's a billionaire.
This is Toto Wolff, Formula One's most powerful team boss and the breakout star of "Drive to Survive."
This week on "Good Bad Billionaire," how Toto Wolff made his billions.
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It's 2013, and on the screen in my newsroom is a rocket, towering over the launch pad.
It's carrying a probe destined for Mars.
The rocket lifts off successfully, and the flight controllers are celebrating.
I've spent years covering space, and now I'm the science and technology editor for The Economist,
so I've been in many control rooms.
You've seen these rooms on TV and in films: ranks of austere computers, rows of serious-looking people.
But the room on this screen is nothing like I've seen before.