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mark asked in SportsMotor SportsFormula One · 1 decade ago

Forget fantasy F1, who fancies doing it for real?

With Super-Aguri in desperate financial trouble - why don't we, the F1 fans try and buy the team?

We can use the same model as Ebbsfleet United ( http://myfootballclub.co.uk/ ) where everyone can buy a share in the team and gets to vote on management decisions such as new drivers and engineers.

I reckon, with the trouble they are in, we could snap them up for about 20 million quid and we'd need about the same for R&D. So, if we say it's an £80 minimum buy in, then we'd only need half a million F1 fans to make it work.

And of course, being the team owners some of us would have to go to the Grands Prix, test sessions, and all the rest of the glamour and glitz...

It might just work....

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  • 1 decade ago
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    I'd love to be part of an F1 team. In fact I once offered to be the tea girl in the McLaren garage but was informed they had a machine lol.

    Edit: Dawg I never thought of that, bit slow eh lol.

  • 1 decade ago

    Great idea. Why stop there I'm sure with all the F1 fans on here there has got to be a few exceptional drivers that could even drive the cars for us.

    Give it a few years and something like that will happen (when we're all too old, as things like that usually happens) and you can say "That was my idea" and you've got proof.

    I don't think it matters if its a small football Team or a F1 Team, at the end of the day if they've got the following/backup of supporters and the right heads behind it....anything is possible......... these days

  • 1 decade ago

    What happens for 2009? The team has an operating deficit in the tens of millions. So next year, we need to find another 1/2 million people to step up or we get the same suckers, I mean investors, to cough up again.

    Unless those paying the bills are getting value for money (ie advertising exposure for their products/services) F1 doesn't work.

  • 1 decade ago

    Ebbsfleet United are a small time semi-professional football team whereas Super Aguri are part of a multi-million pound sport. It would never work and given the amount of money involved- is far too risky.

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  • 1 decade ago

    Sounds interesting enough to me, even though there's perfectly no comparison between a rather small local soccer club and a multi-million international F1 team. You're probably right, though - it might just work ...

  • 1 decade ago

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    F**K YEAH!!!

    Sat in a McLaren M14 as a teenager as my father was doing some work for them.

    It's an experience I would love to repeat at Spa or any track...just give me the first drive....

    ....I'm off to the gym!!

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  • Dawg
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Tilly got this one right!

    Val - you should offer to be their Kebab girl!

  • Tilly
    Lv 5
    1 decade ago

    Nice idea but there could be too many cooks?

  • 1 decade ago

    Bugsy i'm in control of the funds!

  • Anonymous
    1 decade ago

    put me in for a £1 and ill go to spain please!!!!

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