Manor and Mercedes AMG have confirmed to have signed a power unit deal. Mercedes will deliver their 2016 specification, along with fluid solutions from Mercedes' partner Petronas.
The American says he would like 41-year-old Nascar star Dale Earnhardt Jr to lead the team if he was to purchase the outfit.
That appears unlikely to happen, but Hellmund did suggest he would look to keep current Manor driver Alexander Rossi in one of the seats. "He has the resume," he said of his fellow countryman.
The stories about a possible American buy-out led by Tavo Hellmund just seem kind of unserious, like Tavo was being flippant and goofy (Earnhardt Jr. in F1 for example). So I'm bit baffled by skoop's claim. Hope he can give more info and/or a source at some point.skoop wrote:a read today that the current owner of manor doesn't want the americans in. that's why key personal is leaving.
(i'm at work right now so i can't give you a source)
Are you sure Manor F1 is building a new factory?ESPImperium wrote:Id like to think they may use the Prodrive facility for a year or so until Manor get their Silverstone base built as i understand they have bought land around Silverstone somewhere to build a purpose built and bespoke factory for them, the plan I heard is that they are planning an around 50,000q ft facility to run a GP3 team and maybe a couple of other formula series cars from.
