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Spain is big on motorsport. But yes, it doesn't seem like a place which oozes in technological capability. Oranges, maybe.

That's called kidnapping isn't it?

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‘Ayrton had taken pole and now Alain said to me: “where the f*** did he find that time? How the hell can he be that quick?” In the corner, Senna…he looked up and winked at me. Ayrton had a look in his eye that said, “I’ve done it.”
Jo Ramírez

I speak in terms of probabilities but yes what you say is possible as well...circumstances.

I'm suprised by some of the comments on here. The management are responsible for making decisions which affect people. When it comes to money these people need paying, the management should have been responsible enough to get enough money top pay the staff, It's always the same when any employer is bankrupt. It happened to me and it took over 2 years to get a few hundred pounds from the government, the company i worked for didn't pay anything because there were too many creditors. It's going to be a really poor Christmas for these guys!
It could happen to anyone in the lower echelons of F1 and to be honest if i were in my early 20's i would have thought about taking a job with HRT just to be there, in the same pitlane as Frank Williams and the Renault engineers, the Lotus cars and Kimi Raikkonen, Red Bull, McLaren, Ferrari and all. Being a part of it is what it's all about not banging some keyboard telling people well what did they exopect at a team like HRT. As for comments about workers turning up drunk, i'm pretty sure they didn't if you think about it i'm sure you would too, how many workers and how many managers? It's just the press i think.

I love to see "Stoddy" back with his own team.

Also I like to see another US based team and possibly a US manufacturer into the grid in order to draw interest for US drivers.

Get Chevrolet in with Stoddy running it
I'd support Chev!

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Just to put a slightly different slant on things; very often a troubled company trying to survive will be in the position of 11th-hour negotiations trying to secure funding or investment, not knowing which way things will go, and very often the management will be in the very difficult position of not being able to tell staff that there is no money to pay them (unless the deal comes off). If they do tell the staff too early there is a chance of revolt which might finish the business off regardless of what else happens.

I’m not saying that is the case here but there are always 2 sides and I’d be surprised if the management team (who are also workers at the end of the day) were not doing their best to save the company and everyone’s jobs.

It's really too late. They have debts to pay off, and dont even have a plan for a car, let alone the ability to build it. Most teams will be a pretty long way into development, with all major parts pretty much done - dont forget that we see car releases from January.

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It could be named Chevrolet / Australia Version, or CHAV

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Marx (Groucho)

So they are really horrible racing team, afterall.

Yes that's true, but the point I was really trying to make was we shouldn't necessarily jump on the bandwagon of demonizing the management without knowing the full picture.

Chevy is already supplying V6 turbos for Indycar. This is something I could get behind.

If I wasn't paid I'd certainly have some strong words with my management. If still not paid I'd consider my company to be in breach of my working contract and would automatically withdraw my labour from the company until I was paid.

I am assuming that most of the regular staff have a poor basic wage anyway (although I don't think 100% of the money would be based on results.) I would then guess like most teams they have bonuses based on points, podiums, wins and placement in the constructors championship.