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Toto Wolff, Christian Horner, Franz Tost and Otmar Szafnauer all raced in GT or minor classes.Wolff is a Nürburgring 24h winner.
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Toto Wolff, Christian Horner, Franz Tost and Otmar Szafnauer all raced in GT or minor classes.I remember Christian Horner as an F3000 driver. I guess he made it to F1 after all!erwin greven wrote: ↑2 years ago Toto Wolff, Christian Horner, Franz Tost and Otmar Szafnauer all raced in GT or minor classes.
Wolff is a Nürburgring 24h winner.
Hehehe I cant say I remember Frank Williams in his racing days, but I well remember his Frank Williams Racing days.... I remember clearly at Brands close to 1970 seeing him turn up at Brands with an F1 car on a very tatty open trailer behind a very aged and decrepit Ford Zephyr estate car absolutely loaded to the gunwales with tyres and spares thrown in..... its arse was dragging low and the front wheels almost in the air it was so loaded. Very low key. The.next time he had gone relatively up market and remember an old tatty bus in Marlboro colours at a time when others had comparatively modern custom built coaches and trucks.PTRACER wrote: ↑2 years agoI remember Christian Horner as an F3000 driver. I guess he made it to F1 after all!erwin greven wrote: ↑2 years ago Toto Wolff, Christian Horner, Franz Tost and Otmar Szafnauer all raced in GT or minor classes.
Wolff is a Nürburgring 24h winner.
They are not the owners.erwin greven wrote: ↑2 years ago Toto Wolff, Christian Horner, Franz Tost and Otmar Szafnauer all raced in GT or minor classes.
Wolff is a Nürburgring 24h winner.
Almost correct.....Ruslan wrote: ↑2 years agoThey are not the owners.erwin greven wrote: ↑2 years ago Toto Wolff, Christian Horner, Franz Tost and Otmar Szafnauer all raced in GT or minor classes.
Wolff is a Nürburgring 24h winner.
Correct enough to make my point.
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/andr ... s/6744664/Michael Andretti has refuted rumours that his plans to enter Formula 1 with Sauber-owned Alfa Romeo hit a financial roadblock, and instead says it was about control of the team.
Speaking at the announcement that Devlin DeFrancesco will complete the team's four-entry IndyCar line-up for 2022, the Andretti Autosport CEO said: "I'd just like to put an end to some of these rumors that the deal fell through because of financial reasons. That couldn't be further from the truth. It had nothing to do with that.
"It basically came down to control issues in the final hours of the negotiations. That's what killed the deal.
"I've always said if the deal is not right, we're not going to do it, and in the end it wasn't right. So we continue to look for other opportunities."
Andretti later added: "Unfortunately at the 11th hour, control issues changed, and it was a deal that we had to step away from because we couldn't accept it. I always said that we're only going to do it if it's right for us, and in the end it wasn't right for us."
Asked by AP to clarify if he meant that Andretti Autosport was expected to "buy it and not control it", Andretti nodded and said, "Basically."
Andretti, who has 42 wins to his name in IndyCar, publicly confirmed for the first time that transferring Colton Herta from U.S. open-wheel to Formula 1 had indeed been part of his expansion plan.
"Obviously if we do ever get a team, [Herta] would lead the way for us in terms of wanting to bring an American driver," he said. "He'd be the perfect guy to do it. I mean, we definitely were going to try to get him into the seat because I believe he could be a competitive driver in Europe. I really do. There's no reason why he wouldn't."
He agreed that there was plenty of enthusiasm in F1 for an American and the return of the name Andretti, but that Liberty had not been actively involved in trying to make it happen.
"Liberty? No," he commented. "I think they would like it, obviously, because they're really pushing the American market, but they weren't doing anything to help us… I think it would have been a huge story. It's a shame it didn't work out. But I don't give up…
"Our eyes are always going to stay open. We're always going to look for opportunity there… not just there but in other formulas, as well, other types of racing. That's what we do. We're in the racing business, and we're always looking for opportunities to expand.
"But when we do expand, we have to make sure that it's a proper deal that we know we can be competitive because that's very important for our brand – to be competitive in anything that we do."
Andretti also confirmed that had Herta been switched to Formula 1, 2021 Indy Lights champion Kyle Kirkwood would have taken his place in the team's IndyCar line-up.
Legally, can't the 80% just overrule the 20%? Can someone holding 20% of the stock veto the sale or make demands that must be responded to?erwin greven wrote: ↑2 years ago Andretti wanted to have free hands to work on the team. But another family which has some 20% of the shares wanted to keep more say in the team than the 20% should allow. That is the reason Andretti pulled back.
It was mentioned as 80%.... perhaps the owner of the other 20% who was I believe Swedish billionaire Finn Rausing, who basically owns the company that currently owns Sauber wanted a seat on the board of the proposed Andretti Sauber business. I know of all the shareholders in his company he was one who was personally going the own the 20% Andretti were not buying.
But on the conspiracy theory cites it would read: