Recent uncovered details about the parent company of Stefan GP have revealed just why the FIA may have denied the team a grid slot for 2010. With its financial detail unveiled and dubious claims unraveled, the business looks like a fraud, rather than an F1 team owner.
or a buyout of another team -toro rosso is for sale ,yes?WhiteBlue wrote:I believe with the USF1 decision to petition the FiA to defer their entry to 2011 Stefan GP is finished. Their only chance to race is the collaps of another new team.
Think about it WB, none of those were ever viable options, Formula One has always been pursued by semi-criminals (Stefan vs Van Rossem), half-wits (USF1 vs Life) and outright losers (Campos vs Merzario).WhiteBlue wrote:I believe with the USF1 decision to petition the FiA to defer their entry to 2011 Stefan GP is finished. Their only chance to race is the collaps of another new team.
From SpeedTV: Stefan ‘Apologizes’ To FIA And FOM
Written by: Adam Cooper
02/28/2010
Balen (BEL)
Stefan GP has taken a conciliatory approach in the latest statement on its website.
After a barely disguised attack on the FIA on Friday the team has now issued a further message with a less aggressive tone.
The team named not just the FIA but also Bernie Ecclestone’s FOM organization in a statement that read as follows:
“SGP would like to re-confirm its desire and, importantly, its ability to compete in the whole of the FIA 2010 Formula One World Championship.
“It recognizes that this can only happen with the consent of the FIA and the FOM, but has faith that the Formula One 'family' will make the correct decision in the end...
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I ask myself how one can be so judgemental all the time. Sometimes a venture doesn't work out due to risks that couldn't have been forseen. It is strange to read these extreme put downs. When I read about the history of all the old F1 teams they all had their times of struggle and went to the brink. Some make it and some don't. That doesn't make those guys who honestly tried idiots. They all had guts to go out and do it. Some just had some lucky breaks and others didn't.xpensive wrote:Think about it WB, none of those were ever viable options, Formula One has always been pursued by semi-criminals (Stefan vs Van Rossem), half-wits (USF1 vs Life) and outright losers (Campos vs Merzario).WhiteBlue wrote:I believe with the USF1 decision to petition the FiA to defer their entry to 2011 Stefan GP is finished. Their only chance to race is the collaps of another new team.
Amen. [-o<thestig84 wrote:They have proof of a car!! Hope they get on the grid
xpensive wrote:Heartbreaking to share the gospel of love and sympathy from Germany, even if it has no effect on a heartless Swede.
Formula one is the Gordon Gekko-world of sports, people like Merzario, Wiggins or Anderson had no business there.
Semi-criminals, you say? Sounds like Flav fits right in with their lot.godlameroso wrote:A little off topic but while we're talking about semi-criminals, can anyone enlighten me as to how Briatore got into the sport?
From Wikipedia: Flavio Briatore -- Early life and Benetton career
...Briatore moved to Milan and worked in the Italian stock exchange. During this period, he met Luciano Benetton, founder of the Benetton clothing company.
Briatore was sentenced for gambling-motivated fraud, cheating and swindle by fake playing cards. Briatore was also involved in the bankruptcy of Paramatti, and eventually convicted on various counts of fraud in Bergamo and Milan and sentenced to 4 years and 6 months in prison. To avoid imprisonment, he fled to Saint Thomas,Virgin Islands. He never went to prison and he came back to Italy only thanks to an act of oblivion. In spite of his fugitiveness, he kept close relations with Benetton and opened some Benetton stores in the Virgin Islands. When Benetton opened his first five stores in the United States in 1979, he appointed Briatore as director of the group's American operations. Thanks to Benetton's methods of franchising, the chain experienced a brief boom in popularity in the US where, by 1989, there were eight hundred Benetton stores. Briatore, having taken a cut of each franchising agreement, became very wealthy. As store owners began to complain of competition from other Benetton stores, the number of stores decreased to two hundred and Briatore began to look for a new business...
...Briatore attended his first Formula One race, the Australian Grand Prix, in 1988, having in the past proclaimed his lack of interest in the sport. Luciano Benetton appointed him commercial director of his Formula One team, Benetton Formula Ltd. (formerly Toleman), and when he fired the team management shortly thereafter, Briatore was promoted to managing director and set about turning Benetton into a competitive team...
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StefanGP would like to inform the public that the containers we sent on the beginning of February arrived in Bahrain. In the corner of the page you will see official check from DHL and the confirmation that freight arrived. During next week we will show our Stefan Formula 1 car to the press as the final evidence that should put us on the grid in Bahrain.
If case we don’t receive the chance to compete in Bahrain, and also when some of the teams fail to show up, somebody should be in a trouble explaining what is happen to all of us.
And dreamers from USA will have to explain their actions, because they are deliberately weakening F1 with dreaming of perfect world and fairytales about success. And success doesn’t come by talking but with hard work and lot of guts.
