Mini set to announce wrc entry

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Originally Posted by Tarmac Tommy

Watch this space, Marcus will be doing a limited programme adn testing next year ;) A little birdie in the know and I mean really in the know told a close friend of mine. This is not BS

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That little bird should have told that to Marcus because two days ago he told to Finnish press that he won't come back to WRC...

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Originally Posted by Kaffi

have been asking same question to myself. Apparently "theey were very interested". I have a hunch it was TOYOTA with AURIS and MAZDA with MAZDA 2.

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Toyota won't go near Prodrive and Mazda rejected Prodrive in January/February of this year.

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Originally Posted by DonJippo

That little bird should have told that to Marcus because two days ago he told to Finnish press that he won't come back to WRC...

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Interesting.

So will DR and Prodrive lose focus if AM & Merc = Prodrive F1?
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/...-aston-martin/

Don't Ford own Mazda?

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Originally Posted by Macd

Don't Ford own Mazda?

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Less and less, it seems
http://search.japantimes.co.jp/mail/nb20101017a1.html
Their peak shareholding of about 34% was back in 2008.

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Originally Posted by bt52b

So will DR and Prodrive lose focus if AM & Merc = Prodrive F1?
http://joesaward.wordpress.com/2010/...-aston-martin/

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Didn't DR say sometime that once he recruited a good management team to run the project he would retire into the background and work on other things? So maybe F1 is still unfinished business. As long as the people running the Mini team know what they are doing and have the resources hopefully all should be well. But i agree with your question, F1 is the holy grail for a company like Prodrive and it can cause problems.

Mini is testing this week near Sevilla.

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Originally Posted by noel157

Didn't DR say sometime that once he recruited a good management team to run the project he would retire into the background and work on other things? So maybe F1 is still unfinished business. As long as the people running the Mini team know what they are doing and have the resources hopefully all should be well. But i agree with your question, F1 is the holy grail for a company like Prodrive and it can cause problems.

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Yeah, and it's caused 'problems' before. In 1998 Subaru led both championships at the mid-season break. DR went to Benetton, and Subaru never won another event that year. Similarly when he was in charge of BAR-Honda, Subaru started their drop off in form. Coincidence...??? Maybe....

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Originally Posted by ARF

Mini is testing this week near Sevilla.

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Who are driving ?