P.U.R.E Corporation S.A. has today launched to build a Formula One engine for the 2013 world championship. The association will be headed by Craig Pollock, former manager of British American Racing and sees many engine experts return to F1.
http://bbs.hellof1.com/3208745.htmlmunudeges wrote:The plot thickens as rumours resurface that VW wants to get back in on the act.
Craig Pollock's PURE engine company will move to Toyota Motorsport's facilities in Cologne after securing a deal with the Japanese car maker, AUTOSPORT has learned.
PURE, which has been operating in its France base so far, is set to make its debut in Formula 1 in 2014, when the sport switches to V6 turbo engines.
Speaking to AUTOSPORT, Pollock confirmed the move to Cologne - where the Toyota F1 team used to operate from.
"The situation is that we have signed an exclusive agreement with TMG," Pollock told AUTOSPORT.
"It's been signed for quite a long time, no question about it, and Toyota are currently preparing the front office complex that's linked to the test benches and to the assembly units.
"So we can basically have all the parts that we are currently manufacturing delivered to our assembly facility so that the prototypes will be built actually at the Toyota facility, which will become the PURE facility."
Pollock said the move made sense as it will save his company valuable time that it can use to be better prepared once the engines take to the track.
"The reasoning behind it is quite simple," he added. "We obviously would've looked at constructing our own facilities and constructing our own test benches. There is a cost factor and there is a time factor.
"But the biggest thing was in reality the time factor, because to build anything on that scale and certainly to build a test bench, it would take a year and a half minimum to have it up and running and to be calibrated.
"Toyota, they've got the absolute best test benches I think in the world for a Formula 1 engine. They have the most up to date, and have so many of them that for me it was logical to go down that road, because we should be ready to be on the bench in the end of July."
He said PURE will continue to operate from France, however.
"The idea is that we will have the main design and assembly team, the people who have to work on the test benches definitely based out of Cologne. There has to be one unit that is working fully there, and we will normally carry on with units in France as well."
I'm sure they do, so?JohnsonsEvilTwin wrote:@x
Do Red bull not have an agreement to use Renault until the end of 2015?
Either that or Red Bull has discovered that engine development is not part of the RRA, and just like WB xplained earlier, you can pour as much money into it as you want to get an advantage, which would fit Mateschitz modus operandi like nothing else.munudeges wrote:I'm pretty sure Red Bull will be hedging their bets between the two options for 2013. From Adrian Newey's perspective trying to steal a march on the engine front is an option too good too miss. Renault can easily be bought or fobbed off. They could give PURE engines to Red Bull and Renault to Torro Rosso.
That wasn't exactly what I meant by Didi Mateschitz's MO. I meant some other points:xpensive wrote:.... like WB xplained earlier, you can pour as much money into it as you want to get an advantage, which would fit Mateschitz modus operandi like nothing else.
350matt wrote:Peeps
rumour has it that PURE are in the process of closing their doors and ceasing trading? Anyone else heard similar?
This would be interesting if true as the FIA need 4 engine manufacturers to make up the numbers for 2014.......
Which means it might be Peugeot behind it after all, as Peugeot Upsets REnault, when PSA is in deep sh*t at the moment?bhallg2k wrote:PURE suspends 2014 engine development after funding issues
