Formula 1 chit-chat

TBH I’ve never liked Button.  To my mind he’s never talked any sense, his dad even less, and his choice of teams while obviously he’s a world champion elect driver has smacked of money, not having to make much of an effort, first.

 

It will be interesting to see which other teams clamour for his signature.  While admittedly my expertise, apart from a wee flurry in the Aurora F1 in the early 80s, has been limited to a keen spectator I’d take Rubens Barrichello if I was a team manager/owner.

kbannon wrote: Sporty1 wrote: thepits wrote: button says wins are possible in 2009 - yeh, roight,   I'd like to see him and Honda do well, and I believe they may pull it off next year......... Looks like it ain't gonna happen: Honda to quit F1 - reports 04/12/2008 - 21:45:42 Honda are expected to make a formal announcement on their future in Formula One tomorrow amid reports they are set to leave the sport. The team’s senior staff are reported to have been informed at a meeting today Honda in Japan are no longer willing to bankroll the outfit. It is suggested the team will be put up for sale, and if no buyer is found by the end of the month the manufacturer will withdraw from F1. Any such move would send shockwaves through the sport and cast question marks over the future of other manufacturers in the current financial climate. FIA president Max Mosley warned earlier this year the sport was unsustainable at the moment because of the high costs needed to compete. It would also mean the grid being reduced to only 18 cars and would leave drivers Jenson Button and Rubens Barrichello without seats. [source]

 

Shows that I know exactly SFA.

STATEMENT FROM BMW TO FORMULA ONE EXIT OF HONDA
05/12/2008

Dr. Klaus Draeger, Member of the Board of Management of BMW AG, Development:
"It is with regret that we learnt of Honda’s decision. It has no bearing on BMW’s involvement in Formula One.

Our F1 involvement is an integral part of the company strategy. There is no better platform than Formula One for demonstrating our brand values. BMW, moreover, makes targeted use of the Formula One project as a technology accelerator for series production.

With the BMW Sauber F1 Team, we have from the start focused on high efficiency and have achieved our successes with a compact and powerful team. The cost-benefit ratio is commensurately positive. The measures now proposed by FOTA for significant cost cuts starting as early as season 2009 are a further important contribution."

Climate change makes fossil fools of F1

...But there's time to turn the corner - with some great ideas!

Sporty1 wrote: Usual cr%p from that rag.

You're a Sun "reader" I take it?

Mosley Delighted

 

FIA Confirms Radical Cost-cutting Plans

Read elsewhere it was Tata's IT consultancy, not their automotive arm.

 

ETA; http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/tcs-inks-marketi ng-dealferrari/18/31/51474/on

 

Edited by Sporty1

Sporty1 wrote: Read elsewhere it was Tata's IT consultancy, not their automotive arm.

Still Tata though, so as they own Jaguar/Land Rover, and it is rumoured that the UK government is going to bale them out to the tune of billons of £'s, and we pay the UK government taxes, does that mean that WE end up sponsoring Ferrari?

3 potential buyers for the crappy Honda Team.

 

David Richards, owner of Prodrive.

 

Achilleas Kallakis, a Greek shipping tycoon, is interested.

 

Carlos Slim Helú, the second richest man* in the world.

 

http://wheels.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/23/early-suitors-for -honda-formula-one-team/?nl=wheels&emc=wheelsa1

 

 

 

 

* Imagine being THAT rich and being described as that - not quite good enough!!!  Ron Denis should have a word with him!