Dennis, prodrive y demás rumores Opciones

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According to Turun Sanomat there's a lot of rumours circling around wich claim that Ron Dennis and Mansour Ojjeh are planning on selling their remaining McLaren shares. Apparently a deadline has been set for Mercedes for the share deal. If the share deal is done Dennis and Mansour will buy 70-80% of Prodrive's shares.

(Según Turun Sanomat hay muchos rumores que dan vueltas alrededor de Ron Dennis y Mansour Ojjeh piensan vender sus partes de McLaren restantes. Al parecer un plazo ha sido puesto para el Mercedes para el trato de parte. Si el trato de parte es hecho Dennis y Mansour comprarán el 70-80 % de las partes de Prodrive.)

Esta claro que con esta gente pilotos de cheque no habra lo que las opciones de Pedro serian evidentes.

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F1: David Richards Still Bullish on '08 F1 Plans
Written by: Adam Cooper, RACER Magazine
Manama, Bahrain – 4/14/2007


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Prodrive boss David Richards has made his first appearance at a Grand Prix since Silverstone last July, and insists that his F1 project is on schedule despite a lack of hard news.

Prodrive is pursuing the customer route and has had discussions with McLaren, Renault and BMW. McLaren remains the obvious favorite, Ron Dennis having pursued a “B-team” project for several years, and supported an application for the 12th entry that Prodrive eventually won.

Dennis still has his team’s former factory available as a base, which fits perfectly with Prodrive’s intent to in essence be a race team that arrives at the track to run cars built and prepared elsewhere.

McLaren is known to want a three-year deal, and is apparently willing to help direct sponsors towards the team.

Richards insisted that his visit to Bahrain was a social one, and that he happened to be in nearby Dubai on Aston Martin business. However, he was able to drop in on a meeting of team principals at which the 2007 customer car issue and the future Concorde Agreement were discussed with Bernie Ecclestone.

Richards says he is not worried about the controversy affecting his plans.

“It’s all about money,” he told SPEEDtv.com. “Nothing more than money. I’ve got concerns about it, and I’ve got a business model to work to, and I’ve got to make that work. And I will keep pushing my position on that.

“I don’t know yet what the latest discussion is on the table or what the consequences might be.”

Richards insists that his plans are on schedule, although he admits that he took his eye of the ball when orchestrating the purchase of Aston Martin. He intends to announce his plans at the British GP in July.

“It’s not a deadline, I just set myself an internal target to have a lot of the issues resolved by then. I’ve set myself three months, and within that three months we should have most of the boxes ticked.”

“Everything’s is to plan, there’s never been any risk. I’m sure we could have sorted it out months ago if I hadn’t had the Aston Martin project on my hands.”



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He says that he can run his program with as few as 65 employees, plus a few extras from the partner team.

“It depends on the relationship. We’ve had three different scenarios, all of them different, as one might expect, in subtleties. But at the minimum you get down to running a team with 65 I think, if you had all the supportive relationship with the right team partner.”

Prodrive does not currently have space from which to run an F1 project, even if the main preparation is done elsewhere, although Richards says that a base has been found: “We’ve made provision now for an extra facility.”

He insists that it will be no problem for the partner team to build six identical cars in time for the first race. In contrast this winter Toro Rosso had to build its own parts as Red Bull Racing did not have the capacity to service both teams.

“That’s when you haven’t planned it, and you haven’t thought about it well in advance.”