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If the first chassis were truly "complete", it would be testing this week and racing in Melbourne. They're not going to sit around looking at it and patting themselves on the back, are they?
I suspect that Stoddart is saying the first tub is made/b…
This is about taking out the GPWC, nothing more. TOIT have their price, always have had, and sooner or later Bernie was going to strike a deal. With their GPWC lifeboat now sunk, he can turn the screw on the other manufacturers. Effective? Certainly…
Isn't Pastorelli testing only as a reward for the Superfund thing last year? Alonso and Gene got picked up that way, but they had money (and Alonso was also the next Senna). Any reason to think Pastorelli's in with a real shot?
I'm hoping for Monta…
All this Cosworth stuff depends on whether they actually stay for the 2.4 V8 formula in 06 or quit. Does it fit F'n'K's business plan? I suspect not - which would leave us in the lurch without a partner again.
And Heidfeld was in a different class to Gimmi and Zsolt. Chassis alone, the gap was nothing like as bad. That's not to say there isn't a lot of work to do to beat em.
Jordan not for sale, or Jordan not saleable? Sounds like its falling apart, like Prost and Arrows. If you were a buyer, why would you go for them rather than go from scratch? If you were a sponsor, would you be filled with confidence?
Jordan may ye…
With Briatore going, is the time for a link with Renault now passed? In 2001/02/03, it was the obvious thing, but never quite happened. I think Renault will miss Flav - hate him though you must, he's a true master of the game.
Who exactly would be up to the job of running an impoverished privateer outfit against manufacturers? Stoddart is still standing, few others would be. If you seek an explanation of Minardi's current parlous state, your curses should be directed agai…
Like it or not, politics is a big part of the game at present - you won't get Minardi out of its current predicament by shit hot engineering and audacious driving alone. Failure to engage in the current debate on the future of the sport would not be…
There's still a huge mountain to climb, but things look like at least there is some chance for us in '05. Even GCM's role in the team seems less that of a "dead man walking" (as FiFi called him some months ago). Stoddart makes mistakes, but who does…
I think there are 8 million other reasons Stoddart loves Zsolt. He's too slooooow.
At last we're getting some good news on the engineering side. I thought last year actually showed some progress on that front (though the drivers' lack of pace and t…
I'd like to know which race over the last 20 odd years made him proudest of his team (my own - Silverstone '89, of course).
Does he ever hang out with PLM and discuss the old days over a bottle or two of Chianti?
And what does he think of the curr…
Recipe for chaos.
And wasn't it manufacturers coming in, pumping up budgets and then buggering off that destroyed sportscar racing?
I find Ecclestone's world view as distasteful as anyone, but the alternatives are unworkable.
"Pawn in a high stakes power game"? Given that Stoddart's effectively a single individual at the table with Bernie, the FIA and the manufacturers, how exactly was he going to be anything else?
At least hitched to Bernie he gets his view heard, gets…
Didn't Matt just say that the correct strategy would be to do exactly what Stoddart's been doing for the last 3 years?
They're only making a new car now because they got no choice. And you never know, maybe it'll be OK. If they don't put 2 chimpanz…
Of the above mentioned options, all fill me with a sense of depression with the possible exception of Freisacher (if he brought $5m or more).
I can just about cope with one slow guy, but only if there's a star in the other car.
Montagny and Monteiro. With the best of the testers as 3rd driver.
I don't agree at all that drivers are unimportant this year - a good pilot will allow us to kick Jordan's arse.