Button Smashes Barcelona record in major team test
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Williams were NEVER a mid-field team. In his early days, Frank Willimas ran a team that was invriably at the BACK of the grid. He was looked on almost as a joke by the other more established outfits. His first team only began to pick up when Walther Wolf bought in and they began to run a decent budget. Unfortunately, Frank fell out with Wolf and lost his team. However, he reformed a new Williams team a year or so later with solid financial backing from Saudi Arabia and, almost from the start, showed that he had finally got a decent front end of the grid organisation.
Renault came back into Grand Prix racing in 1977 with probably the biggest budget of any team at the time. They were never mid-field operators, although they had terrible reliability problems at first and they didn't win any races until 1979.
Renault came back into Grand Prix racing in 1977 with probably the biggest budget of any team at the time. They were never mid-field operators, although they had terrible reliability problems at first and they didn't win any races until 1979.
d-man said:
Oh and then go bust, but I'm not sure that'll be an issue with BAT behind them.
I know someone who was in a meeting with BAR a while back talking about how all the financial bits and pieces are handled. Somebody asked BAR what their revenue streams were. It was at that point that one of the BAT marketing people stood up at the back of the room and said "That'll be us then".
LexSport said:
Oh and then go bust, but I'm not sure that'll be an issue with BAT behind them.
I know someone who was in a meeting with BAR a while back talking about how all the financial bits and pieces are handled. Somebody asked BAR what their revenue streams were. It was at that point that one of the BAT marketing people stood up at the back of the room and said "That'll be us then".
That'll be until cigarette advertising gets banned anyway.
Izza said:
Oh and then go bust, but I'm not sure that'll be an issue with BAT behind them.
I know someone who was in a meeting with BAR a while back talking about how all the financial bits and pieces are handled. Somebody asked BAR what their revenue streams were. It was at that point that one of the BAT marketing people stood up at the back of the room and said "That'll be us then".
That'll be until cigarette advertising gets banned anyway.
They were talking about this on the local news (which covers the Silverstone area) a couple of days ago.
Apparently BAR and others are threatening to move abroad (to Japan in BAR's case IIRC) to avoid the problem with the ban.
I think that that is more to do with the fact that the EU ban will come in before the voluntary FIA ban, and that all teams based in the EU, or in those countries that have embraced the EU ruline (which will be limited to the UK then 
), won't be able to run with tobacco sponsorship for the interim period wherever in the world the race takes place.
See here for further info.
As one or two have already said though, can you see McLaren upping sticks from their soon to be completed £250m new home???
Rich
), won't be able to run with tobacco sponsorship for the interim period wherever in the world the race takes place. See here for further info.
As one or two have already said though, can you see McLaren upping sticks from their soon to be completed £250m new home???
Rich
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