A new F1 team...

mmap · October 4th, 2005, 7:55 AM

Honda has bought BAR and will be copmeting as its own team next year. Interesting but not the news of the day. Since at the same time Honda announced that it is negotiating to be the motor supplier of a new F1 team...

Rumours say that Coca-Cola will enter a team to comepte in the series thanks to Red Bull having a team?!?!

Coca-Cola - Motor racing? well they're synonymous aren't they?

jensked · October 4th, 2005, 7:57 AM

mm maybe that will make F1 more popular in the States?

fbc · October 4th, 2005, 8:05 AM

Speculation that Williams is sniffing around for the Coke cash

http://www.f1racing.net/en/news.php?newsID=99929

Got a link for that story about Honda supplying a new team? My regular source doesn't mention it.

mmap · October 4th, 2005, 8:43 AM

^^ Well yeah, but it's in finnish...

fbc · October 4th, 2005, 1:40 PM

^ Never mind, the story has turned up here

That's very interesting, and very secretive... just what are they up to...

(btw - I didn't mean to imply I doubted you when I asked for a link, apologies if you thought that. I was interested to read the full story)

mmap · October 4th, 2005, 1:57 PM

No worries, I like to see the full story on posts like this as well.

I just knew that the link would do you no good as you could not understand it and as far as I know no translation engine translates from finnish (babelfish etc.)

Kip_6666 · October 4th, 2005, 2:03 PM

Coca Cola was a huge sponsor with Justin Wilson's car\team back when he won the f3000 championship.

dodgey · October 4th, 2005, 5:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by mmap

Coca-Cola - Motor racing? well they're synonymous aren't they?

I was gonna ask if they tested the drivers for caffiene, but that wouldn't make that much sense considering Red Bull is already there images/smilies/wink.gif

I guess this is the next tier of sponsors now that all the cig makers are out...

Z Draci · October 4th, 2005, 7:43 PM

After Lotus releases their new generation of road cars in the coming years, I certainly hope they return to racing. They should still know enough to be very competitive in the sport.

Kebab gud · October 4th, 2005, 8:58 PM

Red bull vs coke .. ohhhh wee!
whats next? pepsi? or many even evian? images/smilies/tongue.gif

fbc · October 7th, 2005, 2:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Nick Fry

"I think there is a 65 percent chance of it happening," he said at Suzuka. "If it wasn't that likely, we would not be saying anything (about it). But it is a tall order to put this type of thing together in six months."

Link

65% chance eh? I reckon that's means it 99% but they don't want to announce it formally yet.

wooflepoof · December 19th, 2005, 9:51 PM

Hopefullly this'll bring some...er, die hard Coke fans away from NASCAR and into F1. Then maybe i can buy an F1 game here in the states images/smilies/mad.gif

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mmap Joined: Sep 12th, 2004 Last Online: 7:12 PM Location: Finland Age: 30 Posts: 1,302 Car: BMW / Suzuki VX800 Rep Power: 23	A new F1 team... Honda has bought BAR and will be copmeting as its own team next year. Interesting but not the news of the day. Since at the same time Honda announced that it is negotiating to be the motor supplier of a new F1 team... Rumours say that Coca-Cola will enter a team to comepte in the series thanks to Red Bull having a team?!?! Coca-Cola - Motor racing? well they're synonymous aren't they?

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fbc Moderator Joined: Jan 8th, 2005 Last Online: November 11th, 2009 Location: Melbourne, Australia Age: 34 Posts: 11,776 Car: 2006 MY07 Astra SRi Turbo Rep Power: 128	^ Never mind, the story has turned up here That's very interesting, and very secretive... just what are they up to... (btw - I didn't mean to imply I doubted you when I asked for a link, apologies if you thought that. I was interested to read the full story) __________________ www.sniffpetrol.com

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mmap Joined: Sep 12th, 2004 Last Online: 7:12 PM Location: Finland Age: 30 Posts: 1,302 Car: BMW / Suzuki VX800 Rep Power: 23	^^ Well yeah, but it's in finnish...

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mmap Joined: Sep 12th, 2004 Last Online: 7:12 PM Location: Finland Age: 30 Posts: 1,302 Car: BMW / Suzuki VX800 Rep Power: 23	No worries, I like to see the full story on posts like this as well. I just knew that the link would do you no good as you could not understand it and as far as I know no translation engine translates from finnish (babelfish etc.)

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Kebab gud Joined: Apr 2nd, 2005 Last Online: June 29th, 2008 Location: somewhere in yupe Posts: 1,511 Rep Power: 0	Red bull vs coke .. ohhhh wee! whats next? pepsi? or many even evian?

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