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Indian F1 team to come to Chandhok’s rescue?

Distraught at seeing his fellow countryman, Karun Chandhok, booted out of F1 (albeit temporarily) by Horrid Racing Team, an Indian design student, Nikhil Talal has decided to step in and help Karun out.

Nikhil has constructed a revolutionary F1 car made… entirely out of cardboard boxes and sellotape. Provided he can rustle up the €16 million deposit, Talal, 31, hopes to pip Jacques Villeneuve to the coveted thirteenth team slot for 2011, with Chandhok as number one driver.

The car has already been tested outside Nikhil’s house in Bangalore and while initial results were at first encourging, detailed analysis of the telemetry sadly showed that it had no rigidity to speak of, so was a real handful in the corners, it went all soft in the rain and dodgy build quality meant that every time the wind got up something would fall off.

Still, after what Karun has had to drive so far this year this thing should only be an improvement…

Tuesday, July 20th, 2010
Tags: Karun Chandhok
Posted in Campos-2010, TEAMS AND DRIVERS, US-F1-2010 | Indian F1 team to come to Chandhok’s rescue?

Oh no, Jacques is back!

Despite the fact that the last time he was involved in setting up an F1 team, results were shall we say, scarce, Jacques Villeneuve is reported to be forming his own F1 squad ‘Villeneuve Racing’ and has lodged an entry for the… 2011 season.

Although he won’t confirm whether he will drive or not, it is safe to assume he will, as it is clear he is desperate for a drive as he (allegedly) even spoke to the scary guys at Stefan GP. Said a source close to the popular Canadian; “For sure, it will be great, he will be paid loads of money, there will be none of these arguments about who get’s the new wing or whatever and as he’ll be in charge it won’t matter if he is any good or not, plus it will be very difficult to sack him”.

A bit like those five years at BAR then….

Friday, July 16th, 2010
Tags: BAR, Jacques Villeneuve, Stefan GP
Posted in US-F1-2010 | Oh no, Jacques is back!

Now you see him, now you don’t….

The picture to your left shows the happy band that was the Stefan GP team with, seated next to Mr Stefanovic, former McLaren cheat, Mike Coughlan. The picture below however shows that Mike has either been airbrushed out or he… has developed the power of invisibility, which would be dead useful in F1.

Sources close to the team rubbished our comments, pointing out that Mr Coughlan had just popped out to the copy shop and would be back soon.

team

Friday, April 30th, 2010
Tags: McLaren-2009, Stefan GP
Posted in US-F1-2010 | Now you see him, now you don’t….

Stefan GP have Stara’s in their eyes

If you believe what Stefan GP say on their website (and let’s face it, if you do believe them then you probably also believe in the abominable snowman, the lost city of Atlantis and unicorns) the Serbian squad are not… only preparing a team for F1 in 2011 but building a track too.

The Serbian Vultures, as Ferrari lovingly refer to them, still plan to be on the grid next year, with what will then no doubt be a brace of two year old Toyota’s and will also be opening the ‘Stefan Technology Park’ near the town of Stara Pazova, deep in the heart of the friendly Balkan countryside.

Team boss, Stefan Dennis, says rather confidently; “Bearing in mind that we will soon be on a par with top teams, in terms of facilities and organisation, as Stefan Technology Park (STP) looking to be compared with them, we expect many positive improvements in the future.”

If anybody, anywhere, not currently spending time in a mental institution, can tell us what that last sentence means there is a first prize of a weeks holiday to Stara Pazova, second prize gets two weeks.

Sunday, April 25th, 2010
Tags: Stefan GP
Posted in US-F1-2010 | Stefan GP have Stara’s in their eyes

Stefan’s fantasy F1 website opens for business

There are a few spoof F1 websites around, the one you are looking at now included, but nothing beats the surreal madness that is the Stefan GP website.

Stefan GP are planning to ship containers around the globe (again) next year… no doubt getting very cross (again) with everybody in the process while demanding that despite the fact they don’t seem to have any money, partners, sponsors or team members, they should be in F1.

One major (and particularly bonkers) section of the site is called ‘Drivers of 2010’, a list of twelve drivers who didn’t actually drive for the team but (allegedly) spoke to them.

Dirty Dozen? Desperate Dozen more like.

Friday, April 23rd, 2010
Tags: Stefan GP
Posted in US-F1-2010 | Stefan’s fantasy F1 website opens for business

How about this for a piece of F1 memorabilia?

You can get all manner of F1 memorabilia on eBay these days, some of it is even genuine, but for those with a better budget than most, how about a pair of Brawn GP trailers?

The two trailers used by the… championship winning team are on the auction site by order of the High Court who are selling them after the outfit that bought them from Brawn ‘failed to qualify for their series’.

It hasn’t taken long for people to put two and two together and come up with the theory that US F1 were the team who purchased them but it seems that story is being jumped on by angry legal types, so we won’t repeat it.

Rumours that several pots of red, white and blue paint along with some star stencils are included in the sale are believed to be untrue.

Monday, April 12th, 2010
Posted in US-F1-2010 | How about this for a piece of F1 memorabilia?

At least this is a bit more believable than USF1…

According to reports coming out of New Zealand, which is a country a long way away, somewhere near Australia, there could be a new team in F1 for 2011 - a powerboat team.

Kiwi company, Shotover Jet, have announced on their… website that they are in the final stages of preparing an entry for next season, based it would seem, purely on the fact that fluid dynamics are similar to aerodynamics.

Of course, the story probably has nothing to do with a bit of desperate publicity in the form of an April Fool’s Day joke in the current economic downturn, but just in case they are serious, Virgin, Lotus and HRT had better look over their shoulders…

Sunday, April 11th, 2010
Tags: USF1
Posted in US-F1-2010 | At least this is a bit more believable than USF1…

USF1 problems reverberate across the Atlantic

The shut down of the USF1 project has already started to have major implications on this side of the pond, with the closure of the UK’s first NASCAR team.

Following the announcement last year that USF1 were to create, base and… run a team in a country that could not stand F1, Yorkshire businessman, Dudley Ormanroyd, thought that there must be something to this mad plan that the rest of the world could not see and so decided to set up a UK based NASCAR operation.

Ormanroyd said today; “USF1 were our inspiration, we thought that if two seemingly intelligent blokes thought running an F1 team from America would work then why should it not work in reverse? We really thought running a NASCAR team from Barnsley was a good idea.”

He went on; “We did everything they did, we got a nice HQ (pictured) a posh website, we put out press releases about our preferred driver choices every bloody week in the Barnsley Chronicle, we got one of the lads to put up videos on YouTube of us stood around the workbench looking at spanners and stuff but it was not enough, we simply could not find sponsors or build a car, so it’s the end of a dream, I’m really gutted.”

Tuesday, March 2nd, 2010
Tags: USF1
Posted in LETTER FROM AMERICA, US-F1-2010 | USF1 problems reverberate across the Atlantic

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