Rumour of new team entering for 2018

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Ted mentioned during FP2 that a lot of team members were being 'tapped up' about the possibility of joining the new team, when he asked Ross Brawn about a 'new team' Ross confirmed there was but felt it would come to nothing. So with the rumour that Force India is for sale surely it would be better to buy an existing set up than start from scratch, maybe that was the plan, or maybe not and it was/is to be a brand new team?

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Or Honda!

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But it doesn't necessarily mean it's a complete new start up team, could be someone enquiring about buying and renaming force India, it was rumoured that they were for sale and have everything already in place to design and build next years car, tapping other people might be to add to the existing workforce at force India, maybe more experienced people

It's not beyond the realms of possibility that Honda fancies another crack at being a team again, that's 4 Honda engines circulating.........for a few laps anyway!

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DanielSan said:

Surely Sauber would be an ideal candidate for Honda to buy, their facilities are up their with the best they just have no money to utilise them.

Absolutely, could just as easily be sauber but its still a new team for 2018, it's the only way it could be possible, to start from a standing start you'd be looking at being ready for 2019 maybe even 2020 if you want to hit the ground running

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So it was announced today that Force India is probably going to change it's name, whether it has anything to do with Mallayas court case I don't know, I'm not clever enough to know if the Indian banks have a claim on the team.......who knows! It was further announced today that its either going to be Ecclestone F1 OR Brabham

Are these one of the names that were rumoured over last weekend to be the new team for 2018?