Did he buy the chassis and engines? or the whole team?
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Did he buy the chassis and engines? or the whole team?
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Originally Posted by Sarac330d
I think you're spot on with that. The AMCO website is also extremely amusing (and also written entirely in English), particularly reading it as an engineer myself!
This is nearly as funny as that Brook Johnston thing last year (driver who doesn't exist but had many internet pages create with phoney information about his 'career', and 'rumoured' to have been replacing Buemi at one point).
Pitpass is also carrying this (but with the figures a couple of orders of magnitude out): http://bit.ly/bPJdd9 - British readers of that article will be suprised to see that Mr Stefanovich appears to be excellent comedian Dara O Briain wearing 'old-man' makeup...
Not surprised :rolleyes: I had a bad feeling about this from the start.
Thanks for the link.
i'm glad my BS detector still seems to be working, never had a good feeling about Stefan GP
He didn't "buy" anything, by all accounts. It seems he had a lease on the cars and some equipment, as well as a small working space within the factory. Nothing else.Quote:
Originally Posted by turismo6
Mr Stefanovic has munipulated Toyota, pulled the wool over the eyes of drivers who should have known better, and given false hope to fans. Even now there are calls for Stefan to be allowed in, and fans criticising the big bad FIA for snuffing out the dreams of a new team.
This farce should never have been allowed to develop as far as it did.
Well...he did get to have his photo taken with an F1 car :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Dave Brockman
Kind of ironic really, as we already knew Zoran was an evil tugboat...
http://images3.wikia.nocookie.net/tu...Tugszorran.jpg
Would you trust him to run a business? I certainly wouldn't... ;)
The guy just doesn't give up!
OK. However:Quote:
Stefanovich is still pressing on with his F1 ambitions - and AUTOSPORT understands that he has agreed a deal to purchase US F1 so it can take over its entry. Team owner Zoran Stefanovic hopes that once his AMCO company has completed its takeover, it will be granted US F1's entry for 2010 and then can begin racing
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82250Quote:
Although Stefanovic believes that in purchasing the US F1 assets he should get the team's original entry, it is understood that the FIA has written to the team to explain that the American team forfeited the entry when it failed to start the season.
Furthermore, the FIA is poised to begin disciplinary action against US F1 for its failure to make the grid - which could theoretically result in Stefanovic's company getting dragged into any penalties that are eventually handed down if he owns the American team.
I know he's keen to get into F1, but buying into a team that the FIA are lining up to sue for failing to start the season is just reckless.
Can't see the FIA giving any way in to Stefan GP.
He should just wait and apply for 2011 by proper means.
it was clearly a last ditch attempt to circumnavigate the proper entry procedure, safe in the knowlegde that hey have precisely F all chance of getting a place in the grid in a competitive situation against the other likely potential entrants.
Epic fail - the FIA have reopened the entry process for the vacant slot for 2011. entries to be in by the end of April, and a clear selection criteria set out in advance
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/82252