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PepsiCo are willing to buy Redbull for 5.6 billion euro's. If this happens the future for both RB teams are uncertain. According to rumours they are not very keen to continue the sponsorship.
Another takeover in just a short time. Maybe 4 cars will disappear from the grid.
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(this comment was not a religious slur on the Mormon Faith so nobody burn the Irish embassy in Salt Lake City ok.......)
they would never sponsor anything apart from nascar. if they had an extra dollar to spend, it would go into nascar. that would definitely mean the end of red bull's f1 adventure
5.6 Billion Euros; 6.7 billion US dollars??!!
Given that last year's sales were of the order of 1.2 billion US dollars, and given that it doesn't have an asset (being essentially a management company) to its name, and given that there is not a word on the airwaves about any such interest on the part of Pepsi, I think it IS shit.
I have a theory about Utah that revolves around a missing consonant. Somewhere in the dim past, there was a territory that the locals called Futah, or Hutah, or Cutah, or more in keeping with the accent, Nutah. Somehow, during the chaotic organisation of statehood, the consonant was left out, and the strident but distant protests of the residents wasn't enough to get it reinstated. The theory can be expanded in a Life of Brian kind of way to suggest that after the intial confusion, some opportunists tried to put forward new consonants more in keeping with their personal tastes, which all served to muddy the already unclear waters.
So Utah it was, and that lead to another curious phenomenon. Upon arriving at the border, the second wave of settlers turned to their navigators and said 'so where are we?' 'Ootah' would reply the navigator. 'Doesn't sound very encouraging' would be the general opinion. 'What's the big town called?' they would ask. 'Er...Salt Lake' the reply. 'Wagons Ho!' and another potential group would be lost to the giddy attractions and fertile soils of Nevada and beyond.
This of course lead to the arrival of the mormons who took one look around and thought 'Man there's heaps of us and almost none of them - and most of them seem to be paralised by some sort of consonant schism - we gonna own dis joint!' and the rest is the way things happenned.
Any pictures of Jed Smith out there?
BTW - I would have thought that with the profit margin that RB has on each and every drink sold THEY would be the one who would be taking over pepsi!
I haven't found the orignal RedBull press release. Sorry about that.
Hope it helps.
[Edited on 16/2/2006 by vuurmuur]
As for the first, RB stated that it has no truth at all and RB is not for sale.
Berger: There was an interview with him on German site f1total.com
about the STR deal. In return. RB gets a stake in his transport business
and uses it to distribute RB cans etc., in Europe:
http://www.f1total.com/news/06021106.shtml
These guys are playing with a corpse called Minardi ;(