good looking and smart

bernie

Misato Haga
http://supergt.net/supergt/2005/05team/05team_data/05tm027en.htm

Formula One could get its first female team principal in 2007. Japan's Misato Haga is currently president and chief executive of the Durango (Direxiv Motorsport) team in GP2, which is sponsored by Direxiv.

Direxiv' is rumoured to be involved in the funding of a possible 'b' McLaren grand prix team, which could find a home in the Woking based team's old Albert Drive factory.

The local 'Woking News & Mail' publication cited a report that said with McLaren now up the road at the state-of-the-art 'Paragon' facility, the old HQ is still able to house a formula one team

bladerunner

Isn't Jean Alesi supposed to help out in that new team as well (Direvix) ?

Edit: One more picture of Frau Haga...

http://www.wheels24.co.za/Wheels24/NewsPics/0,,1369-1375_1809193,00.html

Worth the click ;)

[Edited on 4/10/2005 by bladerunner]

bladerunner

Also, there are rumors (again) that DOME is involved in the new Japanese team and might use a Honda engine...

Dome at one point even wanted to buy Minardi...
http://www.dome.co.jp/e/column/column_s07.html

Dome tried to us Minardi technology...
http://www.grandprix.com/gpe/con-dome.html

Just wanted to point out the old links again, I guess most of you are aware of this.

Dome has great racing spirit, saw their cars race in Le Mans many times.

If the Minardi name goes under (I hope not !), at least there is a small chance of a new private team with Dome, not just a Japanese McLaren B-Team.

Edit: Some news mentions this as second Honda team, without mentioning the Dome name...

http://www.f1racing.net/en/news.php?newsID=100030

[Edited on 4/10/2005 by bladerunner]

Minardus

Grandprix.com:

Where is the mystery new F1 team?
Honda's announcement that it will be supplying a second Formula 1 team next year and that this will be a new operation is most interesting, given that there is no real evidence to suggest that a new team is up and running.

Building up a fully operational F1 team is not going to be the work of a moment. The most likely operation to be involved in a new team is the Dome company in Japan. This has been building racing cars since 1975, although its founder Minoru Hayashi was constructing racing machinery for 10 years before he started Dome. The company built Formula 3 cars in the 1980s and then began competing in Formula 3000 and in 1994 Marco Apicella won the All Japan title. At the start of 1995 Tadashi Sasaki, the team manager of Minardi, joined Dome and that autumn the company announced its plan to enter F1. A prototype was built and tested by Apicella, Shinji Nakano and Naoki Hattori. During that period the company tried various ways to put together an F1 team, including talks with Prince Malik ado Ibrahim (who ended up with Arrows) and the Dutch electronics firm Philips. When these failed and Honda decided to join BAR, Dome turned its attention to other business, with plans for an Indy Racing League car. That was not a success but in recent years the company has enjoyed good results with the Lola-Dome Formula 3 car, the S101 sports car which is run by Jan Lammers's Racing for Holland team, a Honda NSX in the local GT series and with the design and production of Formula Dream cars in Japan. The Dome windtunnel at Shiga is used now by Honda engineers and is identical to the BAR facility in Brackley. The company is in the process of building a new factory at Shiga.

The ambition to be in F1 still exists, although Sasaki has now left the company.

"From 1986 we have set our goal to enter the F1 Grand Prix and we have shaped our activities around formula cars," the team says. "We have developed an F1 car of our own and we are currently accumulating know-how and building up our organisation to make it possible for us to enter."

Given that one of the reasons for the new team is the desire to give Takuma Sato a drive in F1, it is likely that the new team could be Japanese.

There was talk a few weeks ago of Japanese group Direxiv looking to fund an F1 team with McLaren. It is always possible that this group is involved, while there is also a possibility that Carlin Motorsport might try to step up to F1, Trevor Carlin having learned the hard way with Jordan earlier this year. Sato drove for Carlin in Formula 3.

bernie

just to be a guy for a second... damn bladerunner, she's not just good looking she's HOT!:P

[Edited on 4/10/2005 by bernie]

bladerunner

Also, Coca Cola as sponsor now linked to Sato's new team...

German:
http://www.diepresse.com/Artikel.aspx?channel=s&ressort=je&id=510744

I still don't see if the rumors are about two new teams or one...

McLaren B = (formerly Dubai F1 project) = Direxiv = 2007

Dome / Honda B (or at least Honda engines) = Sato's new team = 2006

[Edited on 5/10/2005 by bladerunner]

Minardus

According to Pitpass it might NOT be Dome afterall, but Dallara!
http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=26086

MinardiP1

She's above average, but she's not 'Hot!'.

bernie

I live in an industry that is 98% male. Most of the guys in the F1 pits are male. The sheer fact that she is female rates her above avaerge. Fast women, fast cars, etc. So on my scale I consider her hot. My standards are probably much lower than yours MinardiP1;)

MinardiP1

So bernie ..... you'd jump 'Bangles' Goodman if given the chance? ;)

bernie

http://www.thebangles.com/ivergence/Image/suesig2.jpg

"bangles' goodman? not sure whom ya mean...

benny goodman is cool music

and then bangles, well, dude, Susanna Hoffs HAD me years ago with those eyes

MarkIII

Louise Goodman, ITV reporter. Was with the late Jon Boy, if I've got my facts correct.

bernie

just go here:

http://images.search.yahoo.com/search/images?p=misato+haga&sm=Yahoo!+Search&fr=FP-tab-img-t&toggle=1&cop=&ei=UTF-8

MCSF

Walk like an Egyptian.