RIP Manor Racing (2010-2017)

Sublime_FA11C · Post by **Sublime_FA11C** » 19 Nov 2014, 13:35

CoopsII wrote:
DanielPT wrote:
Backmarker wrote:In what could be the greatest resurrection since Lazarus:

MARUSSIA ARE ON THEIR WAY TO ABU DHABI!

That would be... Wow!!! By the way, it is too early to speculate on the driver(s) would be? Start and park counts as a presence.

Jacques Villeneuve.

Nigel Mansell. They avoid the start & park controversy when Nige, to everyone's shock, can't fit into the car!

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 19 Nov 2014, 13:55

Rubens Barrichello - Max Chilton? Because why the bathplug not?

LolLola · Post by **LolLola** » 19 Nov 2014, 14:20

Backmarker wrote:In what could be the greatest resurrection since Lazarus:

MARUSSIA ARE ON THEIR WAY TO ABU DHABI!

It would be great

Oh yeah! And the way you post it, post of the year! :lol:

mediocre · Post by **mediocre** » 19 Nov 2014, 16:09

Best news in quite a while:
Bianchi is no longer in artifical coma, is said to be breathing on his own and has already been moved to the hospital in Nice.

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 19 Nov 2014, 16:11

From @ymcofficial

Backmarker · Post by **Backmarker** » 19 Nov 2014, 16:34

FMecha wrote:

From @ymcofficial

Looks like they've turned up to steal the engines from Ferrari.

takagi_for_the_win · Post by **takagi_for_the_win** » 19 Nov 2014, 16:41

Backmarker wrote:
FMecha wrote:

From @ymcofficial

Looks like they've turned up to steal the engines from Ferrari.

Nah mate, that's a backpack.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Nov 2014, 16:46

FMecha wrote:

From @ymcofficial

That Ferrari bloke isn't looking too friendly. And he is placed as if he was blocking the guys from Marussia to enter the building and take the coveted engines.

"Can we borrow two engines? We promise to give them back. Chilton will take good care of them!"

"No! You owe us money!"

"Please man! We won't tell anyone. We will just put them in this backpack and no one will know a thing."

FMecha · Post by **FMecha** » 19 Nov 2014, 16:53

DanielPT wrote:
FMecha wrote:

From @ymcofficial

That Ferrari bloke isn't looking too friendly. And he is placed as if he was blocking the guys from Marussia to enter the building and take the coveted engines.

"Can we borrow two engines? We promise to give them back. Chilton will take good care of them!"

"No! You owe us money!"

"Please man! We won't tell anyone. We will just put them in this backpack and no one will know a thing."

Go post that in the caption this thread, bub

andrew · Post by **andrew** » 19 Nov 2014, 17:06

Great news about Jules, although I doubt that Marussia are racing in abu

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Nov 2014, 17:22

FMecha wrote:
Go post that in the caption this thread, bub

No! I refuse! My two Ferrari engines are mine alone and nobody else's.

Backmarker · Post by **Backmarker** » 19 Nov 2014, 18:28

Stand down, gentlemen (and ladies). Ah well. Easy come, easy go.

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 19 Nov 2014, 18:39

Backmarker wrote:Stand down, gentlemen (and ladies). Ah well. Easy come, easy go.

Max Chilton to Caterham: "Hey guys! Remember me say screw you a few hours ago? I was joking! Ah-ah-ah! Did I told you that you guys are so nice?"

Post by **mario** » 19 Nov 2014, 18:39

Backmarker wrote:Stand down, gentlemen (and ladies). Ah well. Easy come, easy go.

It sounded like it might have been a little too good to be true, and sadly it proved to be the case even if it was a valiant attempt to salvage something.

Backmarker · Post by **Backmarker** » 19 Nov 2014, 18:54

Now cracks a
noble heart.
Good night
sweet prince:

And flights of
angels sing
thee to thy
rest.

This grid was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Jan Magnussen · Post by **Rob Dylan** » 19 Nov 2014, 19:01

Backmarker wrote:Now cracks a
noble heart.
Good night
sweet prince:

And flights of
angels sing
thee to thy
rest.

This grid was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Is that last line... ...Don McLean?
If so you should be posting in the music thread

Backmarker · Post by **Backmarker** » 19 Nov 2014, 19:30

Rob Dylan wrote:
Backmarker wrote:Now cracks a
noble heart.
Good night
sweet prince:

And flights of
angels sing
thee to thy
rest.

This grid was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Is that last line... ...Don McLean?
If so you should be posting in the music thread

And the italicised lines are from Hamlet, but we are sadly lacking an Elizabethan drama thread.

noiceinmydrink · Post by **noiceinmydrink** » 19 Nov 2014, 19:33

Backmarker wrote:Stand down, gentlemen (and ladies). Ah well. Easy come, easy go.

Oh.. god. That's my heart completely shattered.

Jan Magnussen · Post by **Rob Dylan** » 19 Nov 2014, 20:52

I nominate the creation of an Elizabethan drama thread to avoid the weighing down of such posts in the Marussia thread

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 20 Nov 2014, 00:29

Backmarker wrote:Stand down, gentlemen (and ladies). Ah well. Easy come, easy go.

Alex Rossi denied again.

Captain Hammer · Post by **Captain Hammer** » 20 Nov 2014, 07:27

Simtek wrote:
Backmarker wrote:Stand down, gentlemen (and ladies). Ah well. Easy come, easy go.

Alex Rossi denied again.

From the sounds of things, he was never in contention this time.

f1andrea · Post by **f1andrea** » 20 Nov 2014, 19:27

I believed they did it. I hope that they can return in 2015, but is hard as it was hard race in Abu Dhabi

FullMetalJack · Post by **FullMetalJack** » 21 Nov 2014, 00:58

Simtek wrote:
Backmarker wrote:Stand down, gentlemen (and ladies). Ah well. Easy come, easy go.

Alex Rossi denied again.

He's this generation's Gary Paffett, we're all wondering when he'll make his debut, but it never happens.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 23 Nov 2014, 22:16

Backmarker · Post by **Backmarker** » 23 Nov 2014, 23:00

FullMetalJack wrote:He's this generation's Gary Paffett, we're all wondering when he'll make his debut, but it never happens.

With Colin Kolles around, I expect Gary Paffett to finally get a chance in 2019, only to fail to qualify.

tumbano · Post by **tumbano** » 26 Nov 2014, 16:17

http://www.racecar-engineering.com/news ... -revealed/

f1andrea · Post by **f1andrea** » 26 Nov 2014, 18:17

Lowdon said on Sunday that he's continue working for secure a future for the team

f1andrea · Post by **f1andrea** » 27 Nov 2014, 20:29

THE END

http://auctionhq.com/event/marussia/

https://www.flickr.com/photos/auctionhq ... 392597495/

and http://www.marussiaf1team.com/ down...RIP Marussia :cry:

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 27 Nov 2014, 20:41

Tragic. I may try and pick up one or two pieces depending on prices. Will have to see.

I'm in Banbury at the weekend as well so I might try and see what's going on down there - if it's already been emptied or what. No doubt others have already had the same idea as me, but would be nice to see the place for one last time and maybe get a few photos.

f1andrea · Post by **f1andrea** » 27 Nov 2014, 20:49

AndreaModa wrote:Tragic. I may try and pick up one or two pieces depending on prices. Will have to see.

I'm in Banbury at the weekend as well so I might try and see what's going on down there - if it's already been emptied or what. No doubt others have already had the same idea as me, but would be nice to see the place for one last time and maybe get a few photos.

would be very interesting!!

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 27 Nov 2014, 21:23

No points, survive. Points, close down.

Teams' careers are weird sometimes.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 28 Nov 2014, 14:39

Just one sentence:

BATHPLUG YOU, BERNIE.

Remember 2003? You gave money to Minardi. YOU HELPED THEM.

Waris · Post by **Waris** » 28 Nov 2014, 21:03

Wait a second... are they also auctioning the incomplete 2015 car? Someone (Colin Kolles?) might buy that, finish it and try to enter with it?

On a related note, Max Chilton looks great in shorts, I think, but he does look underage.

Post by **Bobby Doorknobs** » 28 Nov 2014, 22:01

Waris wrote:Wait a second... are they also auctioning the incomplete 2015 car? Someone (Colin Kolles?) might buy that, finish it and try to enter with it?

I can think of a certain Serb who might be interested...

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 29 Nov 2014, 16:59

UgncreativeUsergname wrote:No points, survive. Points, close down.
Teams' careers are weird sometimes.

New team joining alongside others at the back of the grid, check. Nick Wirth, check. Two horrible tragedies, check.

Competitive upswing with a driver who can actually deliver the goods leading ultimately to a completely incongruous destruction of the team... check.

And so the final parallel with Simtek is complete.

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 29 Nov 2014, 17:03

Waris wrote:On a related note, Max Chilton looks great in shorts, I think, but he does look underage.

Underage for what? :oops:

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 29 Nov 2014, 18:21

CoopsII wrote:
Waris wrote:On a related note, Max Chilton looks great in shorts, I think, but he does look underage.

Underage for what?

Waris is female (as far as I can remember!), Max is male: let nature take its course...

Post by **mario** » 29 Nov 2014, 18:34

Shizuka wrote:Just one sentence:

BATHPLUG YOU, BERNIE.

Remember 2003? You gave money to Minardi. YOU HELPED THEM.

The problem is, Marussia seem to have been burning through their money extremely quickly - their accounts indicate that they have probably racked up debts of more than $65 million for this year alone, and only survived until now because their former owner had written off around $200 million in debts before the 2014 season. Even if they had survived into 2015 and received extra money from FOM, that extra funding - thought to be in the order of $30 million - would probably have been entirely swallowed up by debt repayments.

From Bernie's cynical point of view, I guess that his question would be what Marussia's long term plans for the future were. The team was shorn of its primary backer and main source of revenue (Marussia Motors) and Bianchi's accident seems to have lead to Ferrari withdrawing their support for the team, so his calculus was probably that, even if he did offer a deal along the lines of what he offered Minardi or Williams in the past, would the team have survived much longer anyway?

The team had been devastated by Bianchi's accident, were without any means of financial support and depending on a team that was increasingly reluctant to offer them any more engines due to lack of repayment - brutal though it was, and in a situation of his own making, Bernie probably thought that the team would have collapsed irrespective of what he did, so why offer them a deal as he did with Minardi or Williams when it was only staving off a collapse that probably would have happened in 2015 anyway? Not that the whole situation doesn't already leave a bitter after taste...

IceG · Post by **IceG** » 29 Nov 2014, 18:42

Good objective summary Mario - thanks

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 29 Nov 2014, 18:46

IceG wrote:Good objective summary Mario - thanks

Complex opinion on Bernie action found. POINT INVALID.

Seriously though, I didn't know the debt was that bad.