[Closed] F1: Villeneuve....

He wanted to race this year so I imagine he'd be keen to race in a team named after him.

Oh not another USAF1 team!

Jack Brabham won the WDC in his own car didn't he?

Wouldn't this be CanadaF1....

I mean funding issues and it all turns out to be hot air eventually.

Maybe but the biggest difference is that Durango is an established team. We'll see I guess.

With funding issues in the feeder series.

I'd prefer if someone big with a large corporate backer already mutting their support was to come in (or similar looking to buy into a minion team already on the grid).

JV as a team principle wouldnt be able to find 5 seconds alap out of his magic pocket. Only money can!

To be clear, right now all the money comes from corporate sponsorship, and not from personal investors

Not sure a) how likely that that would get off the ground, and b) how much of a stake he'd have in something like that if it did get off the ground.

Where's it say the team would be named after him?

Is Pollock involved in this as well - ha always seemed to be JV's 2nd biggest fan (behind JV himself). Don't have a lot of time for either of them really - Villeneuve hit Williams at the peak of their form, but has then struggled to show anything after that.

It doesn't but that's been the story for a while (this is hardly new news).

I doubt he'd have any significant stake in it - he'd be giving his name and would probably be paid a retainer and results based bonuses.

Villeneuve - decent driver but IMO not a great - not someone who'll massively outperform the car I reckon.

I got the opportunity to have a bells and whistles tour around the McLaren Technology Centre a few weeks ago. Incredibly cool. It was only after that experience that I fully realised exactly what a tiny tip of the iceberg the McLaren set-up you see on TV at a race weekend is to the whole operation. The money being spent on infrastructure and day to day development, staffing and manufacture is truly intimidating. Good luck to any team starting from (basically) scratch ever getting close to the big boys in the future. The goal posts have shifted so far from when Ken McLaren, Jack Brabham and Frank Williams set themselves up as independents I have no idea how anyone tries to raise the cash needed to race seriously in the top division now.

Stewart F1->Jaguar F1->Red Bull

1997->2009 - so 12 years (since by my reckoning in 2009 they were definitely competitive) to go from scratch to taking on the big boys and winning. From a business perspective, that's not a huge amount of time really.

But not staying properly independent in the process.... Firstly being bought out by a car manufacturer then a drinks manufacturer worth in excess of $10bn.

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Villeneuve - decent driver but IMO not a great - not someone who'll massively outperform the car I reckon.

+ Infinitve minus one.

He was also rodgering Danny Minogue and she dumped him cause he wanted to play more Dungeons and Dragons rather than knock the back out of her.

UNFORGIVEABLE OLD CHAP, BAD FORM!!!!!!!!!