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Leaked email regarding Virgin investing in a 20% stake in Manor, as reported in The Guardian http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/76653
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Based on its facilities and motorsports history, Manor would not normally look like a organisation ready for the jump to F1. Wirth is ex-March (founded by Mosley - the "M" stands for "Mosley"), and his previous foray into F1 via Simtek was a failure.
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if i recall, the '95 simtek was a pretty neat chassis that was capable of fighting for the top 10 despite having no money -certainly a cut above pacific & forti.
Wirth has been busy in the usa since then with (amongst other things) the le mans prototype acura. |
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We haven't heard from a team in 48 hours?
I may be only 15, but there must have been a time where you would only here from teams once a week in Autosport before the interweb came out and such like. As Eddie Jordan has said, these team have left it late - they're going to have many, many sleepless nights. Rather than going out talking to the press, they've just got to crack on with it and let the current teams squabble over it all. |
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Wirth seems to be very happy about sponsorship!
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US F1 have announced that they'll be ready to roll this October - see here. I noticed one thing in the statement made by Ken Anderson...
"The Aragon facility is a fantastic facility, the people there are very nice, very helpful. It is a great place for winter testing, and we would like to have our drivers based there, or at Paul Ricard, and run all the time." Does this mean that there will be no ban on testing in 2010 ? |
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Article 22.1 c of the 2009 sporting regulations.
"No track testing may take place between the start of the week preceding the first Event of the Championship and 31 December of the same year." Also (currently) applies to 2010. So testing is from Jan 1st to week before first race. |
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They're still allowed to do a limited amount of straight line tests and the like
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So 'run all the time' in Ken Anderson's language means circuit testing from 1st January 2010 through the beginning of March I guess.
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If your "Mule" looks like an F1 car (and what would be the point if it didn't),and it's your F1 car,then you are 'testing' illegally.
It is also a requirement that all cars that are testing be fitted with the FIA mandatory ECU which no doubt records distance covered (maximum 15,000 km). |
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US F1 "close to signing Jacques Villeneuve"
He would be a good signing for them. Everything's looking good for them right now |
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The test mule idea has been floated before - remember the rumours that Peugeot's 908HY LMP1 testbed was really acting as a mule for Ferrari's KERS system in a deal brokered by Jean Todt? I think the powers that be are not foolish enough to let obvious mules slide - F1 teams are pretty high-profile organizations and would have a hard time hiding, too!
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