we speak to aston�*s billionaire boss lawrence stroll. london this is business today. can get it back on track with a little help from james bond. we speak to aston�*s billionaire boss lawrence stroll. live from london this is business today. we start in the red sea where iran—backed yemeni houthi rebels attacked two more crude oil tankers with missiles and drones on monday in what us central command called reckless acts of terrorism. late last week the group released these pictures of another attack on the greek—flagged tanker sounion. since the houthis began targeting ships in support of the palestinians over the gaza war back in november they have launched more than 70 attacks, sinking two vessels, seizing another and killling at least three seafarers. the economic impact has been felt far beyond the region with ships forced to divert on a long and costly detour around the horn of africa. west coast soared 389% betwen december and july. from asia to europe it's been even more expensive — up 469% over the same period. those prices have

i spoke to executive chairman lawrence stroll about how crucial the car will be for aston martin and mbitions for formula one. lawrence: the demand is going to come from our long waiting list aston martin customers. we have a long history of making wonderful engines. this is our newest and latest and greatest made in-house. we have a long following of aston martin customers for rp 12 engines and have for decades. we have shown the car to several customers with great enthusiasm. tom: and the expected demand, i mean, is there any expectation that you will be going above that 1000 a year? why keep the production so limited at this point? lawrence: it is our flagship vehicle. we have history and data from our previous flagship vehicles, so before the vanquish, our last flagship, we were selling approximately that amount, 1000 year for several years. that is the right amount of demand and supply. these cars are made to order and built by hand so we know that's what our demand will look like and we do not want it to be more than that. this is a very, very special car, and 1000 a year is the

it's just unveiled a new flagship model called vanquish and executive chairman, lawrence stroll spokeabout what the latest launch means for the business. the vanquish is our flagship, the last of a trio of our front engined sports car, the dna, the heart of this business. a little over one year ago our db 12 aston martin and a few months ago we launched our vantage, our sports car and now we launch the vanquish v12 flagship. we've always built handmade v12 engines. this is a brand—new engine for this car. we are very proud of all the new performance and all the new technology. and all the new technology. earlier this year you directed the business to invest heavily in the plug—in hybrid ev but it is still a mark of the petrol heads. who are your customers in 2030? the same as our customers today. they are car aficionados, automotive lovers. we have a very long history of customer lists. 111 years now of being in business with a great following of loyal enthusiasts. we have also seen, we brought a new customer into our fold with our db xrs with over 3000 of those a year. since we have

it's just unveiled a new flagship model called vanquish and executive chairman, lawrence stroll spokeell about what the latest launch means for the business. the vanquish is our flagship, the last of a trio of our front engined sports car, the dna, the heart of this business. a little over one year ago our db 12 aston martin and a few months ago we launched our vantage, oursports months ago we launched our vantage, our sports car and now we launch the vanquish the 12 flagship. we've always built handmade b12 engine. this is a brand—new engine for this car. we are very proud of all the new performance and all the new technology. new performance and all the new technology-— technology. earlier this year ou technology. earlier this year you directed _ technology. earlier this year you directed the _ technology. earlier this year you directed the business i technology. earlier this year you directed the business to invest heavily in the plug—in hybrid av but it is still a mark of the petrol heads. who are your company —— customers in 2030? are your company -- customers in 2030?— in 2030?

it's just unveiled a new flagship model called vanquish and executive chairman lawrence stroll spokee latest launch means for the business. the vanquish is our flagship, the last of a trio of our front engine sports cars. the dna, the core, the heart of this business. we came in a little over a year ago with our db12, our super gt tour. a few months ago in the fall, we launched our vantage, our sports car, and now we're launching our vanquish v12 flagship. we've always built handmade v12 engines. this is a brand new engine just built for this car. takes it up to over 800 horsepower. and we're very proud of all the new performance and all the new technology. earlier this year, you directed the business in your words to invest very heavily in plug in hybrid evs, but it's still a mark for petrolheads, isn't it? who are your customers in 2030? our customers in 2030 are the same as who our customers are today. they're car aficionados. they're automotive lovers. we have a very long history of customer lists. you know, in our 110 years now, 111 this year of being in business in a very, very

we speak to aston's billionaire boss lawrence stroll. live from london this is business today.

and that's the reason there's so much money as you know ben in f1 and so 30 million it's worth lawrence strollspend that money on him which could then give them the advantage. and look at red bull. you know since he left, whether it's true that the fact that they've slid down since he's goneis they've slid down since he's gone is a bit of a coincidence, and now aston martin are thinking he's the future for us, he's still on gardening leave at the moment and in march he will start with them and he'll get his pencil out and then he'll start and talk that aston martin could be going for max verstappen as well. >> from red bull, the three times world champion. well you wonder don't you? >> because if red bull is on the slide and max verstappen, who also hasn't won in six races now, so it goes to azerbaijan and is he going to win the drivers championship? >> who would have thought it? i hope lando norris doesn't win. no offence lando, but why? why, i just i'm no offence lando, but why? why, ijust i'm not. >> you don't like the look of him, do you? not? >> he looks at you funny. >> he looks at you f

it's thanks to lawrence karnow that we have this video. he was out for a stroll. bed is full hit record and then was kind enough to share. lawrence, that's awesome. >> yeah. and really been amazing. even last 3 weeks watching along the coastline, all the humpback whales coming in along the coast in close enough. well, it just right near where the surfers like to surf. so not all that far away. so if you want to go check it out, go ahead out toward the coastline, head toward rockaway or maybe linda mar beach might get lucky and but right now that fog has moved back in. so you might want to previous what if you're headed out there right now. you're looking at half moon bay, the clouds roll back in. remember yesterday it was sunny and bright. there things have changed quite a bit as the cloud deck is thickened up. you see toward the golden gate bridge's, the sea breeze is blowing and that is knocked down the temperatures to specially into san francisco along the coastline. overall, though, yeah, we are going to see another hot day. i think, again inland, especially mo

superb spurs stroll to a 3—0 win at old trafford while the pressure goes up for manchester united manager erik ten haag. tom lawrencea wonder goal as rangers grind out a narrow scottish premiership win over hibernian. also coming up on sportsday... it's triple crown taday as pogarcher becomes only the third man to win cycling's big three prizes, the tour de france, giro d'italia and world title in the same year. england continue their netball series down under with a one goal win against new zealand in auckland. welcome along. all the day's football in a moment but lets start in bristol where the one—day series between australia and england has come to a rather damp and disappointing end. with the series tied at 2—2, todays match the decider, but the english weather has once again done for england. having posted a target of 310 for the tourists to win, australia reached 165 for two before the rain arrived. australia awarded the win, and the series courtesy of a higher run rate. our correspondentjoe wilson is watching. yes, the summer's final countdown. cricket�*s conclusion, england in a hurry, harry brooke hit seve