Manor and Mercedes AMG have confirmed to have signed a power unit deal. Mercedes will deliver their 2016 specification, along with fluid solutions from Mercedes' partner Petronas.
As said its a little message that a token effort of turning up to collect the prize money and not leave the garage will not be tolerated. It's hardly cheap to transport all that Cargo for the team to take the piss and BE won't fund it out of his pocket.lebesset wrote:is bernie serious about them paying for their transport ?
according to the FIA they fulfilled their contract , did they not ?
just saying they didn't intend to race is hardly proof , is it ?
Bernie pushed hard behind the scenes to get them on the grid. He needs them to satisfy his 20 car contracts, but he needs them running, not sweeping up the garages for the circuit maintenance crews. He'll push them under rather than let the owners mock FOM and its rulebook.RicME85 wrote:Bernie has an agenda with them, has never liked them (along with HRT and Caterham) so he isn't going to make life easy for them.
=D> Well, like Sauber, he thinks they would have been way up the grid using Ferrari power. Unfortunately they don't have the 2015 PU or a developed 2015 chassis!siwillems wrote:An article on BBC website quotes Graham Lowden who reckons
"Now I've seen where the opposition are in 2015, with the 2015 car we were advanced with, we could have really turned a few heads, if we hadn't had to stop".
full article here http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/0/formula1/31963520
Bernie Ecclestone has revealed that the Manor Formula One team will be docked almost £2m in prize-money for failing to race at the season-opener in Australia.
The team went into administration in October with debts of £64m but were rescued last month by the boss of energy firm Ovo. They raced against time to get their cars ready and meet the deadline for F1 to transport their equipment to Melbourne for free.
However, they never made the grid owing to computer software problems. Ecclestone has already said they will have to pay for the freight and has now revealed they will lose prize-money too.
“We will deduct the race they missed from the prize-money,” he said. “They will miss one 19th of it and they are going to get a bill for the free travel that we gave them
The move will give a boost to Manor’s rivals as Ecclestone added that “the money they should have got will get distributed amongst the teams that are racing”.
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/moto ... 34514.html
Ecclestone added that “the money they should have got will get distributed amongst the teams that are racing”.
Yer look at him taking back money falsely obtained by a team who had absolutely no intention to run the car and giving to other the teams who did.Italiano wrote:What a greedy little pixie he truly is. Can he never stop his money grabbing schemes?
