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31 May 2009, 15:18 (Ref:2472736)
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Team Superfund enter 2010 season
Yep, the former Minardi sponsors are at an advanced stage of plans to enter F1 in 2010 with a team. They've signed a deal with Cosworth and Alex Wurz is fronting the project as team principal. The plan is to "align the team with an existing constructor based in the UK"
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75753 Wow, bet no one saw that one coming |
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31 May 2009, 16:52 (Ref:2472770)
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Would Superfund pair up with Lola or Williams?
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31 May 2009, 17:08 (Ref:2472778)
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That might also refer to Wirth.
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31 May 2009, 17:36 (Ref:2472792)
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Well, Alex's current employers are a British-based constructor
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31 May 2009, 18:50 (Ref:2472825)
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Going on the Alex Wurz quote, it would seem that the plan is to link up with an existing British constructor, which is slightly different from team. If the intention was to operate with as existing team, then there would be no need to submit a seperate entry as presumably the team would have already done so. As such, it is possible that entities such as Formtech could be a possibility.
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31 May 2009, 18:55 (Ref:2472828)
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I'm not saying they're going to buy Brawn. The FOTA proposal on the table is to give technical assistance to new teams. So essentially it wouldn't be out of the realms of possibility that they're going to become a Brawn B team
It had been suggested (can't remember by who - might have been Saward) that some of the losing applicants could join forces with successful applicants. Perhaps they're Lola's back-up plan |
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31 May 2009, 19:15 (Ref:2472842)
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To expand a bit on my previous post: It's been said that Wirth never planned to enter a race team themselves, they wanted to build the cars for a team. That's why I thought of them when I read the quote.
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31 May 2009, 19:20 (Ref:2472849)
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Alex Wurz has a contract with Peugeot, I hope that doesn't tie him down too much. I still would have thought he could have used that link to have Peugeot engines or something of the sort.
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31 May 2009, 19:21 (Ref:2472852)
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Based in Bicester too. Wasn't sure whether they were based in Britain or the States given that they do a lot of their work out there |
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1 Jun 2009, 13:07 (Ref:2473354)
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More info from Alex,and it seems certain that they will use Cosworth engines.
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75762 |
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1 Jun 2009, 15:25 (Ref:2473433)
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RML decided not to enter due to uncertainty over the rules, other teams etc - http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/75770
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1 Jun 2009, 15:35 (Ref:2473443)
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1 Jun 2009, 15:37 (Ref:2473446)
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Well, they said they could've done it had they wanted to - the interest was there. It was the uncertainty that did them in - no doubt Ferrari will be pleased
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1 Jun 2009, 16:11 (Ref:2473473)
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1 Jun 2009, 16:39 (Ref:2473501)
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A shame, as RML is one of the "bigger" names of the prospective entrants, up there with Prodrive really. They have a good history of past motorsport success.
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1 Jun 2009, 22:32 (Ref:2473705)
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F1 brigade? Brainwashing kids? Has Max Mosley been in town?
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3 Jun 2009, 11:37 (Ref:2474626)
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Anyone know what happened to Superfunds original driver Norbert Seidler? Think he was the only Austrian driver NOT sponsored by Red Bull at that time.
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Andretti, Mario: Auto racing legend owns the rights to an unspecified Spinal Tap song, which he purchased when former manager Ian Faith secretly sold the band’s catalog
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3 Jun 2009, 15:20 (Ref:2474769)
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He's in the Porsche Supercup this year
EE have now confirmed an entry and GrandPrix.com say Manor Motorsport have been linked with an entry |
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