Incident 2k9 Wrote:
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> marcl Wrote:
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> > So Caterham have been sold to the idiot Colin
> > Kolles, they probably wont be around much
> longer
> > with him running things.
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> > They will probably try and use the same car for
> > the next 10 years and just run the team into
> the
> > ground.
> >
> > Then when things get tough try and blackmail
> other
> > team bosses.
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> Firstly, the team was sold to Swiss and Middle
> Eastern investors and NOT Kolles himself. Kolles
> only acted as an advisor in the sale.
>
> Secondly, Kolles is no idiot. He had absolutely no
> money whatsoever to work with at HRT, and managed
> to keep them alive when most expected them to go
> belly-up. Only when he left the team before 2012
> did things start to go belly up. The "using the
> same car" is a bit of a misinterpretation; the HRT
> chassis was the same for their cars, granted, but
> that's only the monocoque itself. Most of the
> bodywork had been updated, as had the internals.
> Force India until recently were still using the
> old Jordan monocoque, for example.
>
> Please get your facts straight in future.
So it's ok for him to blackmail Wolff then? Sorry to me the guy has only been involved in failed attempts and this in my view will be the next one.
He will be part of the setup of the team, yes he's not running it directly but he will be keeping an eye on the running and will be at races.
Yes hrt had little money, neither did virgin but through good management they kept going.
To me the guy has no place in f1, you cannot go round trying to blackmail other team bosses for money. So in my view he's not a nice guy and not the right man to advise people.
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He's been trying to worm his way back into f1 for years and as normal through others investment.
From what was said earlier in the year force India are still using the old Jordan tub and won't have a new design until next year. Caterham are also meant to be using the same car they started with but with different body work etc.
Edited 5 time(s). Last edit at 07/02/2014 11:28PM by marcl.