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10 Oct 2014, 16:26 (Ref:3463016) | #76 | |
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Well the proposition didn't convince me to spend my money on it.
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10 Oct 2014, 22:31 (Ref:3463141) | #77 | |
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I love racing. I don't much love giving money to rich people. How about Mr. Brabham ponies up £25 on my behalf? I am sure he has a lot more money than I do.
No "lame excuses" offered now or at any other time--unless my desire to actually pay what I owe to the people I owe in order to maintain a home, car, energy to run both, and food to run myself is all lame. I even spend some of my meager left-over income on traveling to races. I hope Mr. Brabham's project works because I like him and some of the views he has expressed, I respect him as a driver, and the family name carries so much magic. If my refusal to give him cash for, quite possibly, nothing makes me "lame" or not a sports car fan, I guess I can live with that better than not having the cash to fill my tank to drive to the next race. |
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11 Oct 2014, 09:14 (Ref:3463292) | #78 | |
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Closing in on 180k. Is it me or has the timeframe been expanded?
It's been one of the fastest-growing campaigns on Indiegogo but unfortunately it will probably be a case of crawling across the line on this initial goal. What happens next will be interesting - as by their own admission they need £2.5 million to source the factory and get the car. But if you need £8 million to make the whole thing happen, would you buy the car without the ability to run it? |
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It's a win-win for them regardless as even if they "fail" the non-refundable money can be used in buying new yacht for the family...
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Well, I needed the night to mull over whether to part with the £25. I arrived back the next day and it was all sold out.
The other options are too rich for a mere sentimental purchase. And I'm not interested in having my face plastered on the wall of a garage or having to moderate a blasted forum. With all the shenanigans that goes on here, hey, they need to pay me to do that. But they can count on something much more valuable than any dirty, grubby lump of cash. Something you just can't put a price on. My endless respect and good wishes for their heroic initiative. |
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If you don't want to donate that's fine but that's not really a reason not to if you look at what you're actually getting (nothing). You're reward is the warm fuzzy feeling of helping. |
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I remember reading a interview over lunch in Motorsport magazine with Brabs where he claimed that he wasn't poor but he certainly didn't make a lot of money in his career. And I'm inclined to believe that if you look at where he's driven over the years. Anyway my point is, he's not some multi multi millionaire that's asking people to sponsor the team because he doesn't want to himself, it seems as though he just can't do it. I'd be surprised if he wasn't putting in his own money to get this thing off the ground. Well as a long term fan of Brabs and the Brabham name I'm more then happy to throw some money in to see if this can get off the ground. |
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Check out the new 65 GBP level donation, they offer some nice goodies! Less money goes to the project that means but still...
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I'd speculate David is using some of his own money to support his son and is perhaps using a slice of his inheritance to spark this? I might be misreading that of course. |
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I am thoroughly looking forward to seeing the progress with this. The reason I donated? I am a huge fan of Jack Brabham, even though it was way before my time, I love motorsports history and he was a legend. I think this is the only name I'd donate towards, I have a tribute to jack hung up on my wall as you walk into my house. If this works, I will find great enjoyment seeing how the team is run and built and being apart of bringing back such a great name.
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Apparently Brabs is looking at the HPD. Not surprising given his ties to Highcroft and ESM in the past.
http://sportscar365.com/lemans/wec/s...rday-notebook/ |
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About 9 grand left to go now for the first phase. Although I believe they've extended the time period for a second time.
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4 Nov 2014, 14:22 (Ref:3471522) | #90 | |
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What's the point of deadline if you're always gonna re-extend it until the goal is reached anyway?
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4 Nov 2014, 15:19 (Ref:3471535) | #91 | |
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The "deadline" motivates and demarcates.
Pretty obviously no sane businessman is going to shut down his enterprise if he is 99 percent there on the "deadline" day, but having a "deadline" inspires activity ("Let's work extra hard and finish by the deadline") and also is needed to construct a sellable business plan. No one is going to sign on ato somerthing completley open-eneded ("We will probably finsih this phase eventually, and then we will start the next phase which will last ... uhhh, I don't know ... and then we will start the final phase which ends ... whenever.") |
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7 Nov 2014, 13:47 (Ref:3472490) | #92 | |
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Early reports that Caterham are trying to crowd-fund themselves back onto the grid for Abu Dhabi.
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In order to pick up the 10th place 1Malaysia/Caterham/whatever would still have to beat Sauber's best non-scoring-place, because even though Marussia had to abandon the prize money it actually earned at Monaco (crappy rules they have up there), they'd still remain 9th assuming the other two don't score at least 2 points. Right?
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Well isn't that stupid.
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The points are good, formal and written into history. But they don't get any prize money because they haven't finished the season.
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8 Nov 2014, 00:46 (Ref:3472663) | #99 | |
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Caterham just need to pay the administrators, get cars on the grid, start the race and will get 10th in the constructors with no more Marussia. The prize money is something like $11million. The amazing thing is that of me writing this, they have £317,000+ from 720 donors in about 1 day while Brabham has £245,000 from 2580 donors in over a month.
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The power of F1, and their influence on media makes the difference. Big TV stations will likely flood it as well on their broadcasts. The people who have heard (/care) of Prabham & Perrinn & whatever projects are in obscure minority to those who now know of this, even in one day's time...
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