There was additionally the murky state of affairs surrounding the bag delivered to Freeman in France in 2011 supposedly with the decongestant fluimicil. The Freeman case did little to again up Brailsford's ambition of successful clear together with his street race group. Ratcliffe likes to go on intuition relating to whether or not to belief somebody. He talks about his antenna twitching if one thing appears awry and, with Brailsford, that hasn't manifested itself. Away from his biking successes, not all the things he has had his hand in has turned to gold. Brailsford and Ratcliffe are a part of a sporting WhatsApp group, which additionally contains Mercedes F1 group principal Toto Wolff and America's Cup captain Sir Ben Ainslie, each of which Ineos has stakes in.