Epsilon Euskadi are in too

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Originally Posted by ioan

Mixing bananas with apples? :rolleyes:

And how many cars will Litespeed, USF1, Campos, Lola, Dallara, March or Epsilon Euskadi sell if they will be in F1?!

The manufacturers are not in F1 for the money Bernie dishes out every year, the privateers will only come for that, otherwise they would have been in already like Minardi, Jordan, Force India and others did before.

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The relationship between car sales and motorsport participation is surely nebulous at best.

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Originally Posted by BDunnell

The relationship between car sales and motorsport participation is surely nebulous at best.

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I´m thinking about buying a Honda Civic (true), I´m deeeeply influenced by Honda´s performance in F1 last year (false).

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Originally Posted by ioan

£70-75 million is around or even more than the Force India budget! So why didn't these teams want to be in F1 before?!

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I think Bernie and/or Max are handing "new" entries the $40mil (or some large chunk of it).

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Originally Posted by Sleeper

No, just pointing out that half the current grid is their to make more money via self promotion.

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Based on what? Please provide some facts that support this theory.

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Originally Posted by grantb4

I think Bernie and/or Max are handing "new" entries the $40mil (or some large chunk of it).

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That would be Bernie, Max (or the FIA) do not have the money for such charity.

Anyway, how is that fair towards Williams or Force India?!

I don't know it's like buying a house...because iot's not the purchase price it's the running cost. So now the purchase is one thing but now you know your electicity/gas bills will be much less and you can get a builder to make repairs at a cheaper rate.

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Originally Posted by ioan

Based on what? Please provide some facts that support this theory.

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<cough / splutter>

Why, you never do :D

</cough / splutter>


Not wanting to steal Sleepers Thunder but the Grid currently consists of Teams and Engine Manufacturers.

If you just take the manafacturers, which is half the grid, you can be assured that they are not in F1 purely for the fun of it. They see it as a marketing excercise for self promotion.

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Originally Posted by Knock-on

<cough / splutter>

Why, you never do :D

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Do you have fever or something? It might be pig swine! Loss of lucidity is also a symptom but that it's something usual with you, so I'll write that off. :p :

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Originally Posted by ioan

It might be pig swine! Loss of lucidity is also a symptom

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Pig swine? It could just as easily be cow cattle :p :

I've left the other sentence up there as an example of irony :rolleyes:

On topic: that Epsilon Euskadi LMP1 car is lovely isn't it? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Ep...1_21_Front.jpg

^Looks great, went OK, doesnt race anymore. The replacment that was supposed to be in evidence this year is conspiscious by its abscence.