Marussia in administration

[HDM]

Crafty_ said:

Haas wants an American team and I see absolutely nothing wrong with that.

If you read recent articles the guy has a very sensible approach to what he is doing and is already finding out its a tough world, welcome to the piranha club as they say.

Buying Marussia gets him nothing. He's already got an entry, Ferrari engines, transmission and suspension systems on the way, the factory in NC is already far better equipped than what Marussia has. The chassis will be manufactured in Italy (at least initially) and he expects to have premises in Europe (more than likely the UK) by the end of the year.

If anything, some of the assets might be of use - garage equipment and so on. Thats about it. No point buying an entire team for that - its certainly not worth the £65m that is reportedly being asked for the team.

Tbh Crafty, it's not a bad idea, Haas will need a European base in addition to a US HQ, and here you would have a ready made package with a lot of good F1 people, located in the epicenter of F1 engineering. Haas is a shrewd guy, this could save him a lot of the startup teething troubles that may happen as he transfers from another racing culture.

[Composite Guru]

airbusA346 said:

Composite Guru said:

I'm sure if Sauber sells up or goes to the wall then Audi may step in if rumours are true.

Audi have already said the rumours are a load of BS.

Jackie Stewart said he wasn't going to sell the Stewart team to Ford and week later did just that. Rumours in F1 usually end up happening in some form or another.