"We are already one step behind here," one of the Red Bull GMBH lawyers, Red Bull's parent company, said as he looked at the details of the contract on the napkin.
Due to the Red Bull main company owning two teams, both Red Bull Racing and AlphaTauri, they structured their contracts so that the drivers were signed into the parent company and not a specific team. This gave Helmut the flexibility to move the drivers between different teams, even in the middle of a season, without any need for contractual negotiations, since the team was not the one signed into the contract in the first place.
