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  1. 9th October 2007, 18:39 #1
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    Prodrive-McLaren negotiations collapse

    according to autosport...

    http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/63182

    oh dear! does this mean the end for team prodrive?
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  2. 9th October 2007, 19:03 #2
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    Probably, I dont think they were talking to anyone else.
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    Well, there's certainly a lot more to come out about this one, I'm sure.
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    Nick Fry, Button, Gascoyne, Stepny, Coughlan & Coulthard to Prodrive.

    you heard it hear first.
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    Quote Originally Posted by SOD
    Nick Fry, Button, Gascoyne, Stepny, Coughlan & Coulthard to Prodrive.

    you heard it hear first.
    Nah. I'd already read about it in some documents I got given in a pub in Surrey.
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  6. 9th October 2007, 22:54 #6
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    Quote Originally Posted by SOD
    Nick Fry, Button, Gascoyne, Stepny, Coughlan & Coulthard to Prodrive.

    you heard it hear first.
    fry, button, gazza and even stepny... i could believe.... if it was a mclaren customer team. now the deal has collapsed.. even with the sponsors could be in doubts, who were betting on a mclaren customer team.

    would the €100 dollar fine to anything to do with it? Were McLaren subsidising any of this, or on the flip side, if they were getting money for a customer package, surely it would have softened the fine?
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  7. 9th October 2007, 23:43 #7
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    Is the dream of seeing 12 teams again over? (like also before 2002) Terrible news especially as Prodrive could have been a competitive team.

    What other options may Prodrive have? BMW hasn't a B-team and neither do they supply with engines anyone. Renault has "too many drivers" and a B-team would be an option, where to put them.
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  8. 9th October 2007, 23:51 #8
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    Quote Originally Posted by jens


    Is the dream of seeing 12 teams again over? (like also before 2002) Terrible news especially as Prodrive could have been a competitive team.

    What other options may Prodrive have? BMW hasn't a B-team and neither do they supply with engines anyone. Renault has "too many drivers" and a B-team would be an option, where to put them.
    If there were another option, then BMW might not be a bad shout and if they went with them, i would'nt be surprised if Timo Glock were to fill one of the race seats.
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  9. 9th October 2007, 23:52 #9
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    Well Max scuttled that deal !!!

    Now we may see the Aston Martin's returning to ALMS and competing, once again, with Corvette's mighty C-6R'S Next year !!!

    Hey Ron & Mercedes... LMP1 has room for additional entries too !!!

    We already have Porsche & Acura in LMP2!!!

    Can Toyota be very far behind?

    Max may be the best friend we have... for true Sports Car racing !!!

    mokin:
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  10. 10th October 2007, 00:37 #10
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    I have read the Prodrive deal was projected in the area of 100 million to McLaren.
    Friend and foe of Max may well have had a huge impact on this not coming together, ever.
    Though I think SOD's British superteam deal has always had more to it than the Prodrive/McLaren link up.
    Where do those rumours come from? LOL
    Won't you re-up for the greatest moral cause since Sodom and Gomorrah?
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