Prisoner Monkeys - yes I agree. Ok I get this... but not the usage of the Team Name. It belongs to AA and should not be used.
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Prisoner Monkeys - yes I agree. Ok I get this... but not the usage of the Team Name. It belongs to AA and should not be used.
Araujo can still own the team name, even if he is not racing for them.
But he has not given them permission to USE the name! He wants it OFF the team.
He gave them permission to use it when he formed the team. For him to demand that they stop using it now just because he lost his drive is akin to throwing his toys out of the pram. Especially since he needed Mini's permission to use "Mini" in the team name in the first place.
Araujo appears to be trying to force his way back into the team by way of his ownership of the team name. Changing a team name mid-season is a complicated and costly process, and Araujo is probably trying to use the threat of losing manufacturer status to manhandle his way back in. All Mini has to do is buy the trademark from him, and he's got nothing. A trademark won't sell for so much that Araujo could establish his own team again.
Mini Portugal supports Armindo Araújo, not Motorsport Italy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys
Don't forget that the name of the team is WRC Team Mini Portugal.
This is not a british or german name, is a portuguese company.
In fact FIA seems useless as a sport authority, as they charge a license but at the end can't control the use of it.
I tell you why FIA don't do nothing: Because this Mini saga was a big mess to FIA, and if the team is not allowed to start the mess would be worse and bigger. So, they close their eyes.
The solution to Armindo? To go to the civil court, because the sport court is useless.
No, they don't do anything because they can't do anything. There is nothing in the FIA charter that gives them any power to control who uses a certain name, and when. In order to be accepted for use by a team, a name must a) be an actual word (when Formula 1 team HRT joined the grid, they wanted to be known as "Hispania Racing Team", but the FIA did not recognise "Hispania" as a word), b) not be similar to or the same as a name used by an existing team, and c) not be offensive or slanderous in any way.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
The FIA cannot intervene on Araujo's behalf, because they do not have the power to. They can only act based on their own rules and regulations, and if they try to step outside those - as they did when they gave Flavio Briatore a life ban from Formula 1 - it can get very, very messy.
that's why we had two Lotus Renault teams last year?? FIA do the blind eyes when they want to, and do exaggerated stuff when they want to. no transparency at all with their decisions, especially this yearQuote:
Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys
Is FIA who issues the licences and charges for them. So is FIA responsability to assure that the use of them is legal. If the owner of a licence informs FIA that don't authorize that someone uses it, then FIA must no accept that licence on a santioned event.Quote:
Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys
It seems that FIA is there only to receive the money for the licences...
Araujo's case is one for the courts to decide, given that he is claiming an unfair dismissal. The FIA cannot simply revoke the team's licence on Araujo's say-so simply because he was dropped by the team. If a civilian court rules that Araujo has a case, then the FIA can act. Ever since the Briatore case, when Briatore challenge the FIA's right to ban him for life and won, the FIA has deferred to courts first. They won't act without a judgement, especially since they only have Araujo's word for it that he was unfairly dismissed from the team.Quote:
Originally Posted by JAM
You must be jocking... then FIA don't have the registy of the owner of the licence?!?Quote:
Originally Posted by Prisoner Monkeys