[ratpack] Re: News
- From: Ray Buck <rbuck@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: ratpack@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 16 Nov 2009 18:08:23 -0700
Very interesting:
http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=352300&FS=F1
This story, complete with a photo of Norelco poster boy, Ross Brawn,
indicates that Mercedes might be calling the shots as to who drives
for them, effectively thanking Button and Barichello for bringing a
driver's and manufacturer's championship by handing them their
walking papers. It seems that Nico Rosberg and Nick Heidfield are
the prime candidates with Button possibly going to McLaren and
Barichello selling programs in the grandstands. But he just won a
libel suit against Google for half a mil, so maybe he can hire a kid
or two to hawk the programs for him.
http://www.motorsport.com/news/article.asp?ID=351783&FS=F1
Apparently the old Brawn team will be renamed Mercedes Grand Prix, an
all-German team with German drivers...except that they're located in
the UK and staffed mainly by Brits. Hmmm. This will allow them to
do an end-run on the spending cap (now called Resource Restrictions)
by entering F1 as a new team...who aren't limited in their spending
(nearly as much) by the ol' whoremonger Mosely's Machiavellian rules.
Yanno, a fella could get a headache tryin to figger this out. Silly
Season (F1 style) started back in 07 or 08 and hasn't showed any
signs of slowing down....it just gets sillier.
RtR
At 05:32 PM 11/16/2009, you wrote:
All Rat Packers:
News for the day:
Mercedes along with Abu Dhabi government owned Aabar Investments
purchasing 75.1% of Brawn GP. will become Mercedes GP
Team. Mercedes will sell its 40% of McLaren Group back to McLaren
over the next 3 years. Will continue to supply engines to McLaren
through 2015 and possibly longer.
Aabar owns 9% of Daimler.
A. N. Alog
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