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Originally Posted by Chiana
Ginetta could run the car themselves, under the Manor banner, not only to save faces but to prove that the car could be worth investing in the future. Next year no-one will bother purchasing unknown Ginetta P1 if they don't know the product and it has bad historical PR value. They will go for safe option. Which will be either Dallara or more likely Oreca, after their exclusivity deal with the Swiss runs out and they're ready to supply other teams
Let's be clear here. The real issue here isn't about Manor (who may or may not be done) but the future of Ginetta AND chassis options for nonhybrid P1.
Any "bad precedent" would be the lesser of two evils.
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You're ignoring that Ginetta may not have the money to run and develop the car(s) themselves. Ginetta is a relatively small company and has rather limited resources. Adam43 provided the numbers — it only had £154k cash on hand at its last audit.
The worst case scenario here isn't that Ginetta doesn't sell privateer LMP1s. It's that it goes all in trying to sell LMP1s and loses, putting the company in bankruptcy, and that its existing employees lose their jobs.