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No - a Chinese consortium was in talks to invest in the whole MG Rover group. Nothing specifically to do with motorsport.
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So, is there a site somewhere that has tentative line-up published? Or perhaps someone could post one in here?
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No, i don't think so, but as said before, Manufacturers can be very persuasive. As you said, people often don't care if a car it's works or Independent, they just watch the result, and this is what frightens Alfa and Mercedes. |
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Yep, MG Rover have now called in the receivers so unless their racing has independent financing they will probably disappear from the line-up.
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I wonder what the ITR thinks of this? I suppose it's likely if the chassis and the like is already prepared they could coax another company to lend their badge to it?
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What good does it do to race a brand that doesn't exist anymore?
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But why does a financially unstable company even consider starting a motorsport program?? I guess they were overconfident financing would come appear??
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they could sell the cars to giudici and he makes an alfa or something else out of them
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Whatever happened to AZ Roc? They used to run A4s in the STW? Why aren't they racing the DTM A4s? Are they still around? Racing somewhere else?
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