Caterham F1 staff locked out of Oxfordshire site

[Duncan]

...and now Marussia is in administration as well. Unless additional investors show up, both will likely close their doors at the end of the season.

Bagwan makes a good point, though. With Caterham not showing up, what's the benefit of Marussia spending the money to go? Based on Bernie's remarks last week, I don't think there's a penalty for them in not participating for two races, so there's no benefit to them in terms of standing by showing up.

[Doc Austin]

Marussia had to get special dispensation from Bernie to miss Austin and Brazil, so there has to be some rule that you don't get paid unless you make all the races. that, or some sort of other penalty. Otherwise, why would they need permission?

Go to the second paragraph.............. http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ma...tration-report

[Duncan]

Marussia had to get special dispensation from Bernie to miss Austin and Brazil, so there has to be some rule that you don't get paid unless you make all the races. that, or some sort of other penalty. Otherwise, why would they need permission?

Go to the second paragraph.............. http://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/ma...tration-report

Right - that was what I was alluding to in Bernie's remarks. I wasn't meaning to imply that anybody could miss those two races, but rather that both Caterham and Marussia have been given that dispensation. Given that they have permission to miss those two races without penalty, why would they not?

[jens]

Does missing a few races mean Marussia loses its 9th place in WCC and doesn't get the money? Because Marussia would not have fulfilled its contract to run all races. It's a pity, considering Marussia finally had some success, scored points, and is about to outscore even Sauber.

[I am evil Homer]

According this story Marussia, as we know it, is dead and buried: http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/29954250

Not really a surprise they struggled to find a buyer. But no appearance in the final GP it seems...so Sauber will move up a place in standings

[RS]

Wow, the administrators didn't give much time to find a buyer for Marussia. A great shame, especially those two points from Bianchi will go to waste. I guess someone may now buy the assets and resurrect the team in that way?

Meanwhile, Caterham's administrators launched a crowd-funding project to make the Abu-Dhabi grand prix: https://www.crowdcube.com/caterham/

[Somebody]

When would Marussia have got their prize money? If it was before the end of the year, daft to quit now when keeping a skeleton company going would have paid the debts, at least.

As for Caterham, they're actually almost a quarter of the way there, which surprises me.
They WAY underpriced all the limited car bits and so on, though. Went far too quickly.

[RS]

Meanwhile, Caterham's administrators launched a crowd-funding project to make the Abu-Dhabi grand prix: https://www.crowdcube.com/caterham/

Come on guys, dig deep.. they're nearly half way there...

[AndyL]

There's an interesting piece on the James Allen site about how Crowdcube is linked to the accountancy firm that's administering Caterham, with the clear implication that this crowd-funding effort is half aimed at promoting Crowdcube. With this, cleaners being made directors, disputes over who owns the team and who's been paid what, there's so much dodgy business going on that maybe it would be best to just euthanise the outfit now.

[RS]

Allegedly there is a serious party interested in the team: http://m.gpupdate.net/en/f1-news/318...d-in-caterham/