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Boys - just caught up with this thread and will respond to a number of points raised
I have spoken with Nicolas on a number of occasions about his project, have run a couple of stories about it and will likely do so again as and when there is progress to report.
On Brabham - The reality is that this is a significant move from a significant personality in the business with a very significant name. David has been a very significant part of the sportscar scene from the very start of DSC and its predecessors
It seems that a substantial number of people agree with that.
On another front - I was asked, as were RLM, to be involved with the launch announcement. I have spoken to David, and to his team, on several occasions since and that has been a consistent two way contact.
In contrast I have called Nicolas a number of times over the course of this year - I have never had a call from him. I don't hold that against him, but it does mean that in a very busy life he can fall off the radar at times.
I am prepping a piece on the issues of open source and crowd funding models of funding for future publication and am talking to a number of other people about them - these things take time.
I have also interviewed David, at some length, again for future publication, and can tell you that I did ask him the question about Perrinn - He was as classy as Nicolas was in the statement you have pasted below.
I will say that the use of words such as 'respamming' in relation to what DSC, and for that matter RLM have been doing with coverage is pretty insulting. Anything and everything I write is something that you can choose to read or not. Spam is something entirely different.
The question sent in btw is entirely acceptable - I don't intend to employ any 'filter' with this. The sentiment behind part of it though is hardly supportive of either project (evidenced by the post here today at 12:30 which is just plain unpleasant imho)
I'd ask the question in reverse - Why on earth should anyone make the assumption that Brabham should be involved with Perrinn. The fact that there are some similarities with some of the business models doesn't mean, in any way that it's a slap in the face to Nicolas that they aren't!
David wants to go to LMP2 - Nicolas is designing an LMP1
There are a number of current and emergent LMP2 projects out there that might be a much, much better fit.
In various ways the Perrinn and Brabham projects go back a fair way into the past. Both guys have their own ideas on how to progress - Nicolas needs funding to progress the project to production, David needs funding for, well more or less everything!
I'd ask a further question - Why, if you were in David's position, would you risk everything on co-operating with a project for a new and unproven product that would need a redesign on an as yet unbuilt design to meet your needs when there are other solutions available that have proven performance already in the marketplace?
Oh and btw - on the choice of RLM to launch it - They get a bigger and more interactive audience than anything else in the specialist motorsport marketplace, by a distance. You may have missed the little nugget a week or two back that they have had over 1.5 million downloads of podcasts this year. That's over and above those that listen live (literally millions more).
Please guys, do yourselves a favour and don't see conspiracy and underhand tactics everywhere - when the reality is that there are a lot of people working really, really hard to do as good a job as they/ we can to help you to enjoy your sport
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