Comments on: Super Aguri Put Into Administration http://blogf1.co.uk/2008/05/07/super-aguri-put-into-administration/ Your Regular Blog and Guide to Formula One Sat, 04 Jul 2009 03:16:25 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8 hourly 1 By: Ed http://blogf1.co.uk/2008/05/07/super-aguri-put-into-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-65579 Ed Thu, 08 May 2008 16:25:30 +0000 http://blogf1.co.uk/?p=1198#comment-65579 Forget it. I live near Leafield and there is no-one in their right mind who would buy the assets. The actual factory is leased anyway. The usual suspects haven't come forward: Paul Stoddart, Eddie Jordan, Arab kings/princes, and in this time of global financial turmoil, there is almost 0% chance a buyer will be found, who has the $300m+ needed to get it properly running. Honda have lost their money, and the sale of the cars (to another F1 team maybe, for research purposes) might raise $4m...hardly a dent in the $100m+ Aguri owes them, is it? Leafield is OK for a top level A1GP or F3000 team but for F1 it's antiquated. Also near me is Williams which is just another planet compared to Leafield. Even Williams' old factory (now a business centre, and also up for sale co-incidentially) is better than Leafield. I fear this is the end of F1 in sleepy West Oxfordshire.... Forget it. I live near Leafield and there is no-one in their right mind who would buy the assets. The actual factory is leased anyway. The usual suspects haven’t come forward: Paul Stoddart, Eddie Jordan, Arab kings/princes, and in this time of global financial turmoil, there is almost 0% chance a buyer will be found, who has the $300m+ needed to get it properly running.

Honda have lost their money, and the sale of the cars (to another F1 team maybe, for research purposes) might raise $4m…hardly a dent in the $100m+ Aguri owes them, is it?

Leafield is OK for a top level A1GP or F3000 team but for F1 it’s antiquated. Also near me is Williams which is just another planet compared to Leafield. Even Williams’ old factory (now a business centre, and also up for sale co-incidentially) is better than Leafield.

I fear this is the end of F1 in sleepy West Oxfordshire….

]]> By: Alianora La Canta http://blogf1.co.uk/2008/05/07/super-aguri-put-into-administration/comment-page-1/#comment-65557 Alianora La Canta Wed, 07 May 2008 21:31:17 +0000 http://blogf1.co.uk/?p=1198#comment-65557 It could get up and running for 2009 - just not for 2010. Though with the ambiguous "high-level motorsport", it may well be that the administrators aren't even thinking in terms of F1 in the first place. Though if the debts to Honda remain, F1 is the only slight chance of getting that bill paid back. It could get up and running for 2009 – just not for 2010. Though with the ambiguous “high-level motorsport”, it may well be that the administrators aren’t even thinking in terms of F1 in the first place. Though if the debts to Honda remain, F1 is the only slight chance of getting that bill paid back.

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