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Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 1:41 pm
by stiffpaper
JayVee wrote:I wonder if Ecclestone convinced Matisich (spelling?) to buy Minardi and get Stoddart out of F1 !!

Anyway, I don't like the idea of a company owning two teams. Surely there is a much bigger chance of the 2 teams "working" with each other. Add to that the alliance between Ferrari and Red Bull, we could have 5 cars helping Michael next year or will they be helping Massa :shock:

I know it is an exaggeration but you get the point ?

yeap exaggeration indeed.. but thinking about it... it makes sense... there might be chances that they would want to help each other... hmmmm... :?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:12 pm
by Julian Mayo
stiffpaper wrote:
JayVee wrote:I wonder if Ecclestone convinced Matisich (spelling?) to buy Minardi and get Stoddart out of F1 !!

Anyway, I don't like the idea of a company owning two teams. Surely there is a much bigger chance of the 2 teams "working" with each other. Add to that the alliance between Ferrari and Red Bull, we could have 5 cars helping Michael next year or will they be helping Massa :shock:

I know it is an exaggeration but you get the point ?

yeap exaggeration indeed.. but thinking about it... it makes sense... there might be chances that they would want to help each other... hmmmm... :?
Hasn't Ferrari always had a No.2 team?

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:12 pm
by JayVee
F1greyhound wrote:So will we see one team RBR-FERRARI-MICHELIN and another RBR-COSWORTH-BRIDGESTONE?

What a mess if they exchange their data even if I would expect an identical chassis..........

Re.this s@#$ about helping FERRARI, the red team must have really received substantial help this year to end up where they are now.
F1greyhound,

I said it is an exaggeration but say Red Bull is fighting with BMW in a race and they are coming up to lap a car from the "Rookie" Red Bull. The "Rookie" Red Bull could make life easy for the Red Bull team and pretty hard for the BMW team. That is what I meant by help.

As for Ferrari, well this year they don't have much of an alliance with Sauber after the team was sold to BMW :shock: :shock: And the contract with Red Bull has yet to start :wink:
Saying it with a bit of exaggeration so don't be too angry :wink:

Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 6:51 pm
by F1greyhound
I was NOT angry. Just a bit ironic about these conspiracy theories...and the system didnt take the synonyme for "droppings"...

There are favours done in F1 in a much more distinct way and more effective - so to buy a team like MINARDI wouldnt probably represent a wise move from that point of view

Posted: Wed Sep 14, 2005 5:29 pm
by JayVee
F1greyhound wrote:I was NOT angry. Just a bit ironic about these conspiracy theories...and the system didnt take the synonyme for "droppings"...

There are favours done in F1 in a much more distinct way and more effective - so to buy a team like MINARDI wouldnt probably represent a wise move from that point of view
But I am not talking about favours. These two teams will be paid by the same company. I am talking about "potential" company policy :D

And I am not saying that Red Bull bought Minardi just for that reason :shock: