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The Doctor
10-06-04, 01:29 PM
Announcement supposed to come Friday at Suzuka. Either buying Jag and entering next season (using already designed R6 and then building own chassis in 2006) or entering as all-new team in 2006. Funding possibly either from Russia (Abramovich) or Canada.

Take your pick:
http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=22528
http://www.autosport.com (sorry, not a subscriber)
http://www.f1racing.net/en/news.php?newsID=65493
nrc
10-06-04, 01:30 PM
Another chasis builder down the tubes? :)
Ankf00
10-06-04, 01:57 PM
not if abramovich is funding them, look what he did to Chelsea FC in england after 1 year, another cute english team to competing for european titles after all the $ he dumped in em
Jervis Tetch 1
10-06-04, 10:53 PM
No big deal.

The first time Dallara was in F1 (1988-1992), they didn't exactly burn up the track with any stellar performances.

They scored their first points in 1989 and only had 15 total with such drivers as Alex Caffi, Andrea de Crasheris, Emmanuele Pirro, Giani Morbidelli, J.J. Lehto and Pierluigi Martini.

Dallara's best finish was a third at Canada with de Crasheris that owed more to Senna falling out of first with a blown engine than anything. They also got a third from Lehto at San Marino two years later.

It's not like Dallara was Jordan or anything.
devilmaster
10-09-04, 03:24 AM
Well, its official. (i guess - theres a long way to go from here to there.)

Dallara will make the cars for the team run by Russian born, Canadian citizen Alex Shnaider.

http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/news_Story.asp?ID=101168

Steve
Chaos
10-11-04, 12:22 PM
finding a chassis manufacturer is the easy part. wait till he has to find engines and a sponsor!
Ziggy
10-11-04, 05:52 PM
I think the hardest part is figuring out how Bernie likes his *** kissed
RichK
10-11-04, 06:14 PM
This effort has F1rejects.com written all over it, but good luck to them.
pchall
10-13-04, 12:20 PM
Another chasis builder down the tubes? :)

Well, F1 could do to Dallara what it did for Lola -- suck up a lot of resources and kill your buyer base in other formulae by only providing a mediocre product. It couldn't happen to a worse series... ;)
extramundane
10-22-04, 12:29 PM
Well, F1 could do to Dallara what it did for Lola -- suck up a lot of resources and kill your buyer base in other formulae by only providing a mediocre product. It couldn't happen to a worse series... ;)

Only problem is that it would hurt the sportscar world too...
Sean O'Gorman
10-22-04, 02:06 PM
Who is still running Dallaras besides Roll Centre?
pchall
10-23-04, 11:30 AM
Well, its official. (i guess - theres a long way to go from here to there.)

Dallara will make the cars for the team run by Russian born, Canadian citizen Alex Shnaider.

http://www.tsn.ca/auto_racing/news_Story.asp?ID=101168

Steve

And the next announcement will be that George Eaton is making a comeback?
extramundane
10-27-04, 02:40 PM
Who is still running Dallaras besides Roll Centre?

Nobody else (at least of note) right now, but let's not forget that the most successful Dallara sportscars aren't necessarily Dallaras. I wouldn't want a Reynard-style collapse to jeopardize any future projects.
devilmaster
10-27-04, 03:17 PM
And the next announcement will be that George Eaton is making a comeback?

From what I heard and remember, the Eaton kids and grandkids are still very well off, even though they ran daddy's company into the ground.

Eaton Sr. used to say - 'own your own land, don't have any debts, and you are master of your own destiny'. This from the man who started Eaton's department stores. Now a division of Sears.

Steve