Yesterday, the negotiations between the burst and BMW Sauber. Here, the Swiss had tied to my information after a good package together. Why the failed takeover?
To get straight to the point: The following information comes from a source that I can not verify. I do not know the source, I just get the information. In two of three cases, the information previously agreed. So it was true that Piquet was involved, and BMW has dropped out because they all motor sports program "Sport" on "marketing" surrounded.
According to this source has been a week, a deep rift between Mario Theissen and Peter Sauber on the one hand and the board of BMW the other hand. The clean is not good to say about BMW, that you can understand it. After all, the Swiss 25 years, a company long established and brought to the world class, then to see how BMW ruined after three years of his entire life's work. Obviously, Dr. Mario Theissen is also not good to say about its officers. And the panic not only because of the decision to make the store close. According to the informant wanted Theissen KERS throw it in the winter out of the car after the first airplane in tests it was clear that the batteries are the aerodynamics and the weight of the car would disturb sensitive, but the Board insisted on a mission. When were the first race in the pants could prevail Theissen, but because it was too late by then. Whether that is true it is difficult to say but, as Theissen never used in public is in any doubt use a KERS to arise.
Apparently it looks like at the moment, that Theissen and clean work together on a plan on how to save the racing team
Sauber had managed in just five days to enable sponsors and investors, Theissen is also right across the paddock and have a lot of calls with Bernie Ecclestone. In fact, it has managed both within seven days of a full takeover bid, including all written commitments from the investors to put on the table. Plan was allegedly ...
"... Clean that its share of own funds increased again, the rest is purchased by an investor group. Piquet sen. has, moreover, only if put to it than that he would allow his son a cockpit by sponsors for 2010. The goal was to try to get along with the targeted 40 to 50 million annual budget. For one year we had the investors together. Theissen himself had quit his job at BMW and took over the team management, Heidfeld had stayed, the second driver to take over as mentioned Piquet jr. Hinwil about 100 to 150 people have lost their jobs, the engines would come from Mercedes. "
Quote of the informants.
But the thing failed on too high demands of BMW. Ms total.com seems to be more like Peter Sauber have, because there is : "The negotiations with BMW, however, failed because the demands were too high for me easily."
According to my information, the Management Board of BMW has rejected the offer because we tried the losses that you have with the racing this year to soften somewhat. Unlike Honda, which have stood for their bad decisions in recent years especially, it seems that you think of BMW as to how one can still make money out of it. It would go to the Board only for money, including employees of the racing team is they do not care, so the informant. Because of the apparently very deep seated frustration.
Peter Sauber yesterday to have at least throw a tantrum after his BMW was within a few hours can be rebuffed. They have not even checked the package properly, but only looked at the total bottom line. And the BMW was probably too low. Want to put together a package times, will probably be difficult to find the Concorde Agreement is now due and the racing is not officially enrolled. This means that, even if the store can assume, is evaluated as a new team. So align the new registration fee must be no bonuses for 2010, in TV and the points that BMW has been in the World Cup, also can not accept. It moves to the end of the field, has the smallest boxes, etc., etc.. All this makes a takeover even more difficult.
Whether that is true in all respects so? The only certainty is that there has been a takeover bid. This will have been knitted solely due to the short term, with a hot needle, and certainly have not resolved all the questions in conclusion. It is also possible that BMW has the offer for legal reasons to reject it. If there has wobbled a house lawyer with the head, then the Board will also have no other choice than to cancel the thing. Even if this really loses a lot of money.
It is clear that we have now missed a window of time that had been held up because of yet only because the FIA and FOTA have been waiting for Peter Sauber. FOTA has also confirmed again yesterday that it will help the BMW-successor in each case. If there is one at all.
Addendum: Using anonymous sources is always a bit tricky. Whether coming to receive information by phone or mail. If you do not know those, then there is always a problem. Because you never know which side of the informant and is actually causing the release of certain information at the end. In other words, you get information, because someone is angry, or because someone wants to prevent something completely different? The information that I received were very detailed. Since even the names were called by potential sponsors. I have deliberately left out and concentrated on the core. The is my opinion that Theissen and work together to clean a rescue of the team. Still, I was thinking also at the information if I should bring it. Although it may come from someone from the BMW environment that would harm the Theissen. You know how the environment can thus move in a group. Here, I'm sure that the information is true, as the BMW motorsport boss is already at the heart of the matter. His face on the PK last week spoke to the volumes.
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It's amazing how his BMW Motorsport image completely so quickly flushed down the toilet. As can be seen only in comparison with how much propriety Honda mastered the situation and how wrong it can also tackle something.
At Honda, we can say nice drawn from the affair. Even if you have massive debts, of course, made manifest and whether they had any employees without a degree of severance pay must let go, it is certainly still a mystery.
As Don mentioned, the face of the PK Theissen spoke for itself. I've never been on a track with BMW, but it should agree that the Board has ordered the use of KERS, then what is mighty wrong. All well and good you will want to go for clean energy, but if you stop thinking anyway wenns shit runs in the season, then you do not necessarily purely a technology company with which changes the whole car.
Finds a shame that Peter Sauber probably have to leave a "very large" stage Formula One has to, because obviously a concern in the way is again to rauszuholen a little money.
Abgewinnen If you want something good to the whole thing, then it is not yet another team with Mercedes engines in the field. Of course, I imagine the quality of the aggregates of the question, quite the opposite. But when so many teams will be supplied by a manufacturer, which is the direct way to "DTMisierung" of F1. (Did Although earlier periods of dominance of an engine supplier, but they were just different times.)
@ Me: Certainly it would be Mercedes-supplies-all system is not good. Ferrari did not seem to deliver BGP, and Mercedes does it stop. Would it run stupid, we might have only 9 teams in F1.
And the rest is still no sign on the Brawn Mercedes ;).
Mine is a "Mercedes supplying anyone who asks" system provides for worlds rather than the "you buy Kotzwürg, or paddle pops" system, which apparently favors the FIA.
The marketing strategists at BMW should really consider carefully whether they want their employers seriously as "the company that has made clean break" be in the history of the sport and in the minds of people. Potential car buyers do not buy brands, they are consciously or unconsciously dislike.
@ Xenic: I seem to remember has the brawn said in a BBC interview that he preferred the Mercedes engine is because of the suspension was easier to integrate into his concept.
@ Nona: fullack. any halfway vernünfitge f1 fan knows now when he sees how much brawn NEN drive Honda put in there next year ... if it reflects the NEN Sauber team is that everyone "is cool and BMW Sauber stinks" with assoziiren
yet what general, our colleague has bought this year bmw NEN, half-full water bottle in the drinks holder, once slowed down properly -> aborted beverage holder.
Can that be a great big Hamse schicki micke-fetch-hatchback-crystal-palace recently granted itself.
there is also around so NEN F1, but somehow only one in a corner. Feels Like 40% of the main hall with video walls are zugefplastert to efficientdynamics.
ps: if anyone should read along the BMW PR team that fixes the broken video with aspect-ratio which shows her on the factory tour, if you ever want to do PR.
abductee wrote:
Ferrari has thrown a basket in 2008 towards Brawn. Since it was just a little over a Mercedes to enforce, or to thread deals with Toyota or the Renault. Since Mercedes was probably the only way that was really effective / is.
Yes, and this is the fact that the Ferrari engine needs more fuel and is known to deliver more heat. Brawn had the delicate tail of the double diffuser so must the way we make, what would not fit.
By way of postscript to the above statements: Peter Sauber is probably extremely pissed because his concept had really good hand and foot, but the BMWler much wanted to have a lot more money.
Just hope that BMW is thus in a deep hole ...