The South American boss of engine-maker Rolls-Royce's windows provide a panoramic vantage point over the city's vast Guanabara Bay.
A number of other prominent business figures, including the bosses of engine maker Rolls-Royce, pharmaceutical companies GlaxoSmithKline and AstraZeneca, have said Britain is better off inside the EU.
It is said that when he and Domenicali got back to base in Maranello, Di Montezemolo demanded the head of the boss of the engine department, Luca Marmorini.
James McNerney, who sat on Boeing's board and was a former boss of the aero-engine business of General Electric, was an obvious candidate to fill Mr Condit's large shoes.
Red Bull team boss Christian Horner criticised the performance of engine supplier Renault as "unacceptable" after the Austrian Grand Prix.
But a forthcoming book by George Stalk, a senior partner at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG), and Rob Lachenauer, boss of GEO2, a car-engine technology firm, makes the opposite claim.
The season started in Australia with F1 bosses – but not the fans – bellyaching about a lack of engine noise and finished with almost civil war between the teams.
Lutz Goebel, the boss of Henkelhausen, a mid-sized German engine manufacturer, says his customers are already starting to procrastinate over purchases of new diesel engines.
But I happened to be watching an episode of it last night in which Thiel's sensibility seemed most perfectly distilled in another character, the boss of the world's biggest search engine.
Perform a visual inspection of engine.
Tony Fernandes, boss of AirAsia, wants Airbus to put new engines and improvements on the A330, which is used by his company's long-haul budget airline, AirAsia X.
