Pepsi to sue Courtney - Cash to PMM for Steve Owen

[Go Harder.]

Originally Posted by rik

Is there anything stopping Pepsi sponsoring HRT/Courtney? I hear Toll's contract is finished this year?

SShhhhh!.... Careful or they might go make 15 million Garth Tander cans..

[Muznik]

Originally Posted by Downoz

According to todays Tele, Pepsi are not too impressed, as they have allegedly got 15 million pepsi cans with Courtney on them.

hmmm, missing a decimal point (1.5m here http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1225966007656)

Seems odd that they would get that far down the marketing track without something concrete.

[ForumNick]

Pepsi could recoup costs by 'gradually' releasing them on e-bay as 'collectors items'

[Downoz]

[QUOTE=Muznik;2800218]hmmm, missing a decimal point (1.5m here http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/spo...-1225966007656)

That is what I was supposed to put, but what is 13.5 million can, nothing.

[Just Do It!]

Originally Posted by ForumNick

Pepsi could recoup costs by 'gradually' releasing them on e-bay as 'collectors items'

Wouldn't you get better leverage by taking them to V8 Supercar rounds for Ford fans to play "Crush the Courtney" now that he has changed camps?

For 50 cents a can, you could raise a nice sum of money for the McGrath Foundation.

[Racefan72]

Wouldn't FPR & Pepsi have been better off waiting until everything was signed, sealed & delivered before undertaking this sort of marketing? If this is true then someone will have some explaining to do

[eduardo1]

Originally Posted by Just Do It!

Wouldn't you get better leverage by taking them to V8 Supercar rounds for Ford fans to play "Crush the Courtney" now that he has changed camps?

For 50 cents a can, you could raise a nice sum of money for the McGrath Foundation.

That would be a very clever PR stunt.

[eduardo1]

Originally Posted by Racefan72

Wouldn't FPR & Pepsi have been better off waiting until everything was signed, sealed & delivered before undertaking this sort of marketing? If this is true then someone will have some explaining to do

Probably. But then again, with production lead times required, maybe they wanted everything ready for a pre-Xmas launch. Who knows what their time frame was.

[Scrut]

Originally Posted by Go Harder.

SShhhhh!.... Careful or they might go make 15 million Garth Tander cans..

My can crusher would be working overtime.

[BlueMax]

Why did Charlie need to buy the Number 10 REC. Why couldn't he just use the 18 REC that he is now leasing back to DJR.

[Just Do It!]

Originally Posted by eduardo1

That would be a very clever PR stunt.

Cheers for the support. Let's hope Andrew Condon has been reading 10-10ths, and that the McGrath team jump to action.

It ticks the V8 carbon rules too as you are recycling what is simply now a waste product.

Charlie might buy 100,000 or so to squish with the hoist fleet too

[Falcadore]

Originally Posted by BlueMax

Why did Charlie need to buy the Number 10 REC. Why couldn't he just use the 18 REC that he is now leasing back to DJR.

Didn't VESA buy REC #10 not Charlie S?

Given that DJR is going ahead next year with both of is franchises intact (even if leased) is Courtney actually contracturally free to leave DJR and join HRT?

Be funny if the breach of contract fee might pay for the lease of REC #18 :P

Also isn't that the second time in three years FPR have failed to get Courtney into the team? Perhaps their negotiation skills need some work, escpeicially since Courtney has supposedly signed on to join up with only the seventh best team in the series.

[Axeman444]

Originally Posted by Falcadore

Didn't VESA buy REC #10 not Charlie S?

Yes they did, which allegedly was the instigator of the whole implosion that was JC to FPR, as this deal was hinging on Charlie obtaining the #10 REC to run JC. HOWEVER, that still doesn't explain the question BlueMax is asking, and why i believe not is all as it smells, and a certain fat lady has not yet commenced singing

Originally Posted by BlueMax

Why did Charlie need to buy the Number 10 REC. Why couldn't he just use the 18 REC that he is now leasing back to DJR.

[eduardo1]

My guess that the reason for the 18 REC not going to FPR was that DJR needed it to keep the Jim Beam money. So going to one car was never an option for Dick, the split was only agreed to on the proviso that Charlie leased back the REC.

[Conrod Kieron]

Originally Posted by Falcadore

Didn't VESA buy REC #10 not Charlie S?

Given that DJR is going ahead next year with both of is franchises intact (even if leased) is Courtney actually contracturally free to leave DJR and join HRT?

Be funny if the breach of contract fee might pay for the lease of REC #18 :P

Also isn't that the second time in three years FPR have failed to get Courtney into the team? Perhaps their negotiation skills need some work, escpeicially since Courtney has supposedly signed on to join up with only the seventh best team in the series.

As I understand it, the contract could be broken if management changed, it has therefore JC is free to leave should he chose.

It's still the first time as such, FPR were simply going to be a provider of services/equipment to Charlies team, FPR wern't employing him directly so it's not their negotiating skills.