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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VMw0bOsL7-U
This video (in Portuguese) is an interesting take of Flavio Gomes, Brazilian journalist, on the strength of Brazilian fanbase in F1.

This was the 47th Brazilian GP, and the first without a single local driver. And the fact went unnoticed by the Brazilian press. Even Globo didn't mention it and focused on announcing the signings of Sette Camara and Fittipaldi as reserve drivers of McLaren and Haas. The grandstands had a good attendance throughout the weekend and all sponsors of TV transmission have extended their hefty deals for the next year. It seems the absence of Brazilian drivers is not hurting the watching figures here.

A crazy fact that I just read on Autosport - Mercedes-Benz Grand Prix Ltd is quite literally the same company started by Ken Tyrrell.

If you click on People, there are a couple of other interesting parts - Niki Lauda's profession is listed as 'Entrepeneur', Ross Brawn is 'Engineer', and apparently Satoru Nakajima was a director of Tyrrell for just over a year.

Julian Jakobi was also a director for a little while around the same time, which I didn't expect.

Toto Wolff was also listed as entrepeneur back when he was a Williams shareholder

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I actually would've thought of a new company that took control of the previous company's assets, but I wasn't expected them to be exactly the same company!

https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/comp ... 5/officers

This one shows that Bernie is still enroled at Brabham

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From my experience, this is definitely unusual. I think they'd transfer the registration in order to simplify the accounting and so on, which probably protected Tyrrell from their creditors when BAT bought them.



Good find! I'm surprised they still exist. According to their accounts (filed this year and signed by 'B C Ecclestone'), they have total assets of 2 GBP and liabilities of just over 400 GBP. Typical Bernie; keeping people owed even when the company is dormant

I went through that companies site and Minardi still exists and is owned by Paul Stoddart

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Is Red Bull still Stewart?

and he still prouds himself from being the british citizen who pays more taxes there, quite good to see the companies he was involved and the names like Gerhard Gribkowski

Brabham as a company now is a new venture started by David Brabham to build supercars (not related to MRD)

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https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/03120645

Yes

One team I found interesting was Arrows, which was only officially dissolved in 2012 and whose last director resigned in 2005. And, they first opened business as "Letdale Limited" but changed name the following month.

Manor GP are still active and with full accounting reports available. Apparently in 30 June 2017 (the year they couldn't join the championship) they had 354k GBP in positive cash balance (8m172k in 2015 for comparison) and they retained their last chassis and they plan tto rebuild it, put a new engine and use it for driver experiences.

Leyton House are tecnhically still active and with registered staff but stuck in an unsolvable insolvency since 93 and John Surtees' team is still active but also dormant.

I did a bit of more search on the March team and found out that their wind tunnel now is used by Toro Rosso

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I received a catalogue in the post today and it had pre-orders for the 2018 F1 Review. It apparently is only gonna be 2 hours long this year.

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Costcutter faces the sack.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-46259420

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Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
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Yeah, I know he's mad and I don't care. I do not care. I did not care then. I do not care now. I'm here to race him.

yup, saw that. Wonder if it will affect the F1 team. Renault stocks plummeted it seems

looks like Danny Ric is sporting that good old Chris Amon luck

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This is massive news for Japan to arrest a CEO of one of their main companies, despite corporations being a protected species (liability wise). It is very odd considering the corporate tax rate is quite high at 30%, but liability wise, they are quite protected.

It always amuses me to hear Americans bang on about how high their taxes are considering that they are relatively low compared to the rest of the world.

Yeah this doesn't really bode well for the F1 team, considering they were always seemingly on the cusp of being axed by Ghosn. I'd imagine anything he had a hand in is/will be re-evaluated and looked at.

Ghosn did favor being in F1 but at a budget. He likely will at the very least be asked to step down. For the F1 team it is crucial his replacement feels the same about F1. If his replacement wants to follow the green path they could bow out within the foreseeable future. On the other hand, his replacement might want to be successful at all cost.

To be announced tomorrow.

https://www.autosport.com/f1/news/14022 ... -race-deal

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Marco Simoncelli ¦ 1987-2011
Jules Bianchi ¦ 1989-2015
Justin Wilson ¦ 1978-2015

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Great news

Also Poland's biggest petroleum company probably will become Williams sponsor. They had a Porsche Supercup Team ( Verva Racing ) for few years with some success and few months ago they started looking to expand their brand name internationally. Since Kubica was already a test driver for Williams, his management must have contacted Orlen and it's looks like they got an agreement. Since they were looking for sponsorship deal anyway, then why not support your homeland driver with it.