Well put, how can Ford not afford to back The Team[y]
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Well put, how can Ford not afford to back The Team[y]
ROB17
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Looks like Ford funding for DJR is getting closer...
http://www.speedcafe.com.au/2009/12/07/fords-new-deal-for-all-falcon-v8-teams/
http://www.speedcafe.com.au/2009/12/07/fords-new-deal-for-all-falcon-v8-teams/
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i heard some interview happening on Sunday after the race up in the corporate box discussing with someone from FPR and the interviewer said that with the three teams receiving ford money next year, themselves, SBR and DJR it would ensure there is going to be a good performance from whats left on the ford side of the fence.
Thetormentor
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Interesting from the V8 website:
V8 Supercars Australia (V8SA) Executive Chairman, Tony Cochrane, has declared the 2009 Championship as the most successful.
Cochrane listed three reasons why he believed this year?s season was the best since the category was re-named V8 Supercars and V8SA (then called AVESCO) took control of the administration of it in 1997.
?One, the enormous success of the inaugural Sydney Telstra 500, two the enormous success of the inaugural Dunlop 400 in Townsville and three, the fact that in one of the most difficult economic climates for 75 years we?ve had sponsorship growth, crowd growth, ratings growth and we have just had a remarkably solid, strong year for all our teams and the entire championship,? he said.
Cochrane said the introduction of the Dunlop SP Sport Maxx Sprint tyres at the start of the year was one example where V8SA had taken on fan feedback.
?And the fans have voted with their feet,? he said.
?We?ve had something like 1.9 million fans this year that have come and watched us live, so we?ve got just a massive bunch of new fans new to the sport, new to motorsport.
?It?s very, very important that we widen our fan base all the time and particularly widen it in terms of young people and female fans so I think all of those things are on the up and if they are on the up it means overall the sport must be doing a lot of things right.?
Cochrane said it will be tough to better the category in 2010, but is confident it can be done.
?Obviously we get away to a wonderful start with the tremendous double-header in the Middle East, but 2010 will present a whole heap of new challenges,? he said.
?We?ll have a new CEO in hand and I?m sure it will be an incredibly exciting year; lots of changes in team land and lots of driver changes so I look forward to it all rolling out again late next February.?
And Cochrane said he was not in the slightest bit concerned about the 2010 field being made up of two thirds Holden Commodores.
?Because there?ll be some teams that will change from Holdens to Fords that will become apparent in the next few weeks,? he said.
?Look, these things go on all the time.
?The Ford teams that are there will step up to the plate; we saw a great victory from a Ford team (at the Sydney Telstra 500) that is going on next year as a Ford representative team in Dick Johnson Racing so this sport has been evolving and changing over a lot of years and it will keep evolving and changing because it?s got such a massive, massive base now.?
V8 Supercars Australia (V8SA) Executive Chairman, Tony Cochrane, has declared the 2009 Championship as the most successful.
Cochrane listed three reasons why he believed this year?s season was the best since the category was re-named V8 Supercars and V8SA (then called AVESCO) took control of the administration of it in 1997.
?One, the enormous success of the inaugural Sydney Telstra 500, two the enormous success of the inaugural Dunlop 400 in Townsville and three, the fact that in one of the most difficult economic climates for 75 years we?ve had sponsorship growth, crowd growth, ratings growth and we have just had a remarkably solid, strong year for all our teams and the entire championship,? he said.
Cochrane said the introduction of the Dunlop SP Sport Maxx Sprint tyres at the start of the year was one example where V8SA had taken on fan feedback.
?And the fans have voted with their feet,? he said.
?We?ve had something like 1.9 million fans this year that have come and watched us live, so we?ve got just a massive bunch of new fans new to the sport, new to motorsport.
?It?s very, very important that we widen our fan base all the time and particularly widen it in terms of young people and female fans so I think all of those things are on the up and if they are on the up it means overall the sport must be doing a lot of things right.?
Cochrane said it will be tough to better the category in 2010, but is confident it can be done.
?Obviously we get away to a wonderful start with the tremendous double-header in the Middle East, but 2010 will present a whole heap of new challenges,? he said.
?We?ll have a new CEO in hand and I?m sure it will be an incredibly exciting year; lots of changes in team land and lots of driver changes so I look forward to it all rolling out again late next February.?
And Cochrane said he was not in the slightest bit concerned about the 2010 field being made up of two thirds Holden Commodores.
?Because there?ll be some teams that will change from Holdens to Fords that will become apparent in the next few weeks,? he said.
?Look, these things go on all the time.
?The Ford teams that are there will step up to the plate; we saw a great victory from a Ford team (at the Sydney Telstra 500) that is going on next year as a Ford representative team in Dick Johnson Racing so this sport has been evolving and changing over a lot of years and it will keep evolving and changing because it?s got such a massive, massive base now.?
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Who realistically would be moving...?
4x HRT - No
Sprint Gas - Gone
4x KRT - doubt it
BJR - ?
Triple F Racing - who?
GRM - has shown off new livery on a Holden so doubt it
PMM - shown new livery on a Holden so doubt it
Rod Nash Racing - they are aren't they?
Dunno what you guys think, and because this is my first year that I have been keenly interested in whats happening, Ford's silence on the DJR sponsorship issue is very conspicuous.....nothing from them at all.
Whats the usual go? Would we know something about a Ford cash injection into DJR by now, or is it looking like DJR are going it alone again this year 2010?? [sh]
Happy New Year guys
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Whats the usual go? Would we know something about a Ford cash injection into DJR by now, or is it looking like DJR are going it alone again this year 2010?? [sh]
Happy New Year guys
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Hardies Hero
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Agree Pete, gone are the days of the January 1st announcements on team movements etc, they are either done and dusted by December, or as when James came to DJR the Team said nothing until the official Launch, and everyone knew anyway.
In DJR's case with Ford, I would expect that all the top brass would be on leave at this time of year, as Poita said, expect something either way in the next few weeks.
In DJR's case with Ford, I would expect that all the top brass would be on leave at this time of year, as Poita said, expect something either way in the next few weeks.
We have known for a little while that Triple F are running the PCR Falcon from last year, and RNR has a FPR FG for this year, so its either of those two but someone else....
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Driver line-up almost confirmed
Monday 04/01/2010 11:00
Author: Briar Gunther | Source: BigPond Sport - copyright
BigPond Sport - copyright
One of the silliest silly seasons in V8 Supercars is almost over with most of the driver seats locked away.
A raft of driver changes has occurred while a number of teams have folded with new ones ready to take their place.
One of the most important and contentious changes is that of TeamVodafone, which joins the red side in 2010 and will run Commodores.
What remains to be seen is whether the Commodores will be quick out of the box, but considering they are Triple Eight-prepared cars it would not be presumptuous to believe they will be.
Paul Cruickshank Racing will not field an entry in 2010 and former driver Fabian Coulthard is another driver who is following TeamVodafone to Holden.
Coulthard will drive a Walkinshaw Racing Commodore while Bundaberg has extended its sponsorship of the team to cover both Coulthard?s car along with fellow Walkinshaw recruit Andrew Thompson, who returns as a fulltime driver after a year-long hiatus from the main game.
Two new teams ? Tony D?Alberto Racing and Lucas Dumbrell Racing ? have been born out of the closure of Tasman Motorsport and drivers Greg Murphy and Jason Bargwanna have found new homes.
Bargs has joined Todd and Rick Kelly at Kelly Racing although the team?s fourth driver is yet to be confirmed while Murph will join Paul Morris Motorsport driving a Castrol-liveried Commodore.
Jason Bright is another Ford defector, joining Brad Jones Racing alongside Jason Richards although Paul Dumbrell has defected the other way, leaving Walkinshaw to drive the Ford Performance Racing-prepared Bottle-O Falcon under the Rod Nash Racing entry.
Holdens make up two-thirds of the 2010 V8 Supercar field, meaning the remaining Ford teams have their work cut out for them.
Ford has indicated it will pump more money into supporting more teams than it did in 2009, but to date its exact plans have not been forthcoming.
2010 driver line-up:
Brad Jones Racing: Jason Richards, Jason Bright and Karl Reindler (TBC)
Ford Performance Racing: Steve Richards and Mark Winterbottom
Garry Rogers Motorsport: Michael Caruso and Lee Holdsworth
James Rosenberg Racing: Tim Slade
Dick Johnson Racing: James Courtney, Steve Johnson and Jonathon Webb
Kelly Racing: Rick Kelly, Todd Kelly, Jason Bargwanna and a fourth driver TBA
Lucas Dumbrell Racing: TBA
Paul Morris Motorsport: Russell Ingall and Greg Murphy
Rod Nash Racing: Paul Dumbrell
Stone Brothers Racing: Alex Davison and Shane van Gisbergen
TeamVodafone: Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup
Toll Holden Racing Team: Garth Tander and Will Davison
Tony D?Alberto Racing: Tony D?Alberto
Walkinshaw Racing: Fabian Coulthard and Andrew Thompson
Triple F Racing: Dean Fiore
Monday 04/01/2010 11:00
Author: Briar Gunther | Source: BigPond Sport - copyright
One of the silliest silly seasons in V8 Supercars is almost over with most of the driver seats locked away.
A raft of driver changes has occurred while a number of teams have folded with new ones ready to take their place.
One of the most important and contentious changes is that of TeamVodafone, which joins the red side in 2010 and will run Commodores.
What remains to be seen is whether the Commodores will be quick out of the box, but considering they are Triple Eight-prepared cars it would not be presumptuous to believe they will be.
Paul Cruickshank Racing will not field an entry in 2010 and former driver Fabian Coulthard is another driver who is following TeamVodafone to Holden.
Coulthard will drive a Walkinshaw Racing Commodore while Bundaberg has extended its sponsorship of the team to cover both Coulthard?s car along with fellow Walkinshaw recruit Andrew Thompson, who returns as a fulltime driver after a year-long hiatus from the main game.
Two new teams ? Tony D?Alberto Racing and Lucas Dumbrell Racing ? have been born out of the closure of Tasman Motorsport and drivers Greg Murphy and Jason Bargwanna have found new homes.
Bargs has joined Todd and Rick Kelly at Kelly Racing although the team?s fourth driver is yet to be confirmed while Murph will join Paul Morris Motorsport driving a Castrol-liveried Commodore.
Jason Bright is another Ford defector, joining Brad Jones Racing alongside Jason Richards although Paul Dumbrell has defected the other way, leaving Walkinshaw to drive the Ford Performance Racing-prepared Bottle-O Falcon under the Rod Nash Racing entry.
Holdens make up two-thirds of the 2010 V8 Supercar field, meaning the remaining Ford teams have their work cut out for them.
Ford has indicated it will pump more money into supporting more teams than it did in 2009, but to date its exact plans have not been forthcoming.
2010 driver line-up:
Brad Jones Racing: Jason Richards, Jason Bright and Karl Reindler (TBC)
Ford Performance Racing: Steve Richards and Mark Winterbottom
Garry Rogers Motorsport: Michael Caruso and Lee Holdsworth
James Rosenberg Racing: Tim Slade
Dick Johnson Racing: James Courtney, Steve Johnson and Jonathon Webb
Kelly Racing: Rick Kelly, Todd Kelly, Jason Bargwanna and a fourth driver TBA
Lucas Dumbrell Racing: TBA
Paul Morris Motorsport: Russell Ingall and Greg Murphy
Rod Nash Racing: Paul Dumbrell
Stone Brothers Racing: Alex Davison and Shane van Gisbergen
TeamVodafone: Craig Lowndes and Jamie Whincup
Toll Holden Racing Team: Garth Tander and Will Davison
Tony D?Alberto Racing: Tony D?Alberto
Walkinshaw Racing: Fabian Coulthard and Andrew Thompson
Triple F Racing: Dean Fiore