“Dad’s always done stuff like that. We have a very nice, close and loving relationship.” It illustrates the softer side of one of the toughest men in sport, whose image is more recognisable in another amusing tale from a wedding she attended a few years ago. A fellow guest, knowing only that Claire worked at Williams, not that she is Sir Frank’s daughter, probed: “Is he really as much of a grumpy t--- as he is on the telly?” Claire recalls. “The poor guy — it ruined his whole evening because he thought he offended me. But that’s who Dad is at work. He’s had to be.”