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confirmed on autosport
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112254
lotus really are in the st now
http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/112254
lotus really are in the st now
Well, that I did not expect... I can't honestly see Lotus doing anything other than a) not turning up or b) propping up the grid.
I noticed in recent weeks that there seemed to be a continuous stream of staff leaving to Williams etc, a lot of them were not big names, which makes you wonder who is left up at Enstone?
As far as I can see Genii have managed to take a championship winning F1 team and run it into the ground, Toleman, Bennetton, Renault, Lotus - whatever you called the 'Enstone mob' before its not looking good for them.
I noticed in recent weeks that there seemed to be a continuous stream of staff leaving to Williams etc, a lot of them were not big names, which makes you wonder who is left up at Enstone?
As far as I can see Genii have managed to take a championship winning F1 team and run it into the ground, Toleman, Bennetton, Renault, Lotus - whatever you called the 'Enstone mob' before its not looking good for them.
m0rris said:
As far as I can see Genii have managed to take a championship winning F1 team and run it into the ground, Toleman, Bennetton, Renault, Lotus - whatever you called the 'Enstone mob' before its not looking good for them.
Isn't that what capital investment managers manage to do fairly regularly when they acquire things?StevieBee said:
What on earth is happening in F1 at the moment ???
IMO The raft of 'cost cutting' measures implemented a few years ago have had the opposite effect and to be a front row F1 team you need more money these days than you can reliably squeeze out of corporate sponsors, so we've got teams at the front with huge budgets - like RBR and Mercedes, teams at the back barely covering costs with pay drivers and the like and a huge performance ocean between them the teams in the middle are in complete turmoil.IMO If Max hadn't been caught in the dungeon and / or got the budget caps he wanted back then F1 would have a larger grid now, closer teams in terms of performance and we wouldn't see good, solid drivers with decent track records loosing seats to unknowns with better backing, and it seems Bernie finally agrees because whilst they dropped the double points for Brazil bombshell, they quietly announced budget caps from 2015.
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