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It's good to see they have a sense of humour and also pretty good marketing to show their potential sponsors what exactly they would get for their money (as opposed to launching the car with a complete blank liverly)
What I do not like is that they fail to come up with something distinctive. They are still in their very early days, they dont have any major sponsors to dictate their main colors, why not come up with something that catches the eye and is distinctive. Now that Jordan is out of the game they could go for some nice yellow that always stands out, or even try some crazy neon color, like neon-green. This livery, what it tells is, "We are just one of those teams that come and go, do you remember Midland? yea, we dont either, but we are kinda like them. No personality" |
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It's as clear as day the Hispania people are hanging a big 'for sale' sign on the car. I'm not talking about simple advertising space. I'm talking about the team as a job-lot.
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That depends where you are coming from, if you are aiming to get into F1 and have the financial clout to do it buying any existing team, with it's entry, as a starting point, is way more cost effective than starting from scratch. But viewed as a business investment, absolutely not, in fact I very much doubt the front running teams would be good value either in the narrow commercial sense.
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yes. one of lotus or virgin for example both have employee structures set up, office space, work space, and all the processes required are in motion. established supplier structures, etc etc. hispania seriously make you doubt exactly what goes on there - whether it's just a formula 3 team scaled up a bit without any proper structure, any proper regular suppliers who are paid on time etc etc. there's no reputation to buy there at all.
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Most important factor in buying a team is how good is the wind tunnel?
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