Manor Motorsport MM01 *** 2015 Launch Thread

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Manor racing have unveiled their 2015 entry....

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I for one like the new livery... its a real break from the Marussia Red.


:D

No joke!

:eek:
 
IF manor racing start the 2015 season they will use the 2014 cars which were pulled from the administration auction earlier on the basis that they will be needed.

Marussia red did look too much the Ferrari!

Andi.
 
So if I got this correct, Haas has bought the factory only, the team are talking to some 'mystery' potential investor to possibly run last years cars, with the cancelling of the auction to give the talks more time?

Ferrari are the ones owed the most money so you'd imagine that it could be them if they wanted a 'junior' team, but with their close links to Haas surely that is what that will essentially become? Unless they use the Manor/Marussia as a test bed for a year, a known platform where they can test parts which could find them self on the Haas or even the Ferrari.
 
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Indy500 said:
Sauber was\is the Ferrari junior team. The Marussia tie-up was by no means exclusive.
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Sauber and Ferrari were quite close, but no where near what Red Bull and Toro Rosso are, which is what would be good. I think Marussia were closer like that with them than Sauber.
 
Duke said:
Sauber and Ferrari were quite close, but no where near what Red Bull and Toro Rosso are, which is what would be good. I think Marussia were closer like that with them than Sauber.
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Different era, but Ferrari allegedly gave Sauber the blueprints of the F2003GA to be used for their C23 (I recall at the time that it was apparently in exchange for some funky cooling solutions Sauber had developed).
 
Duke said:
Sauber and Ferrari were quite close, but no where near what Red Bull and Toro Rosso are, which is what would be good. I think Marussia were closer like that with them than Sauber.
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Sauber routinely used the previous year's Ferrari engine and transmission (from about 1997 onwards IIRC), and designed their chassis around it. STR weren't the first to be accused of moving over for the "parent" team cars either.
 
Just to make the thread a bit more official...

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/117737

Manor's hopes of returning to the Formula 1 grid have received another boost after its creditors agreed to bring the company out of administration.
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So basically they are back up and running now. The other rumours from the main thread is that they are doing a crash test on the 2015 car in March.

All systems go then...
 
They will be also rans for 2015, but maybe that's not a bad thing?

Run a skeleton crew at the races, sell the seats to the highest bidder on a race by race basis, do nothing to the car. Instead focus all attention on building a solid team for 2016. If they simply need to exist in 2015 then they should do the bare minimum required to do so.
 
All they really need to do in 2015 is turn up and survive so that they can bank the prize money from 2014 and then build for 2016. If they can do that without being an utter embarrassment then good luck to them. It should provide a good number of opportunities for pay drivers to come in and show what they're about.
 
Can they swap drivers out every race? Never thought about that! Basically having a new driver for each race, unless say a driver has loads of money and can afford to buy all races?
 
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