Jordan F1 Sold...

more russian money.

It really annoys me, particularly Chelsea. No one can tell me this mone isn't from some veeeery dodgey sources, but people just close their eyes. Watched a docco on BBC the other day and all the chelsea fans were "so what if he's a crook, as long as we're winning" !! It's entirely possible that these russian billionaires kill people!!!

A moral sport would tell them where to shove their dirty cash. In effect they are just money laundering on a grand scale!

A friend of mine works in international credit, lending huge sums of money to other countries. He visited a bank somewhere like kazakhstan on business once. As he and his two security guards entered the building, he was asked to deposit any fire arms he was carrying in the gun vault!
All the banks customers seem to require this facility.......dodgy money indeed!

btw has anyone noticed how the members here seem to have a strong set of old fashioned eighties lefty politics?

Retro cars...retro politics.

Anyone remember Red Wedge?

Talking of old fashioned left wing politics, here I am comrades! ;D ;D ;D

If we're going down this road, I'd like to add that these new Russian millionairres are the same ones who helped turn Communism so corrupt during the Cold War, no doubt scratching backs and licking a*ses back in the Breznhev era, and making sure that they were much more equal than others. And of course it was ones just like them who turned Russia down that road in the first place, helping Stalin into power over Trotsky because they preferred a corrupt, greedy, egomaniac paranoid schizophrenic with an oedipus complex and lots of dictatoresque facial hair (look at them all, Stalin, Saddam, Hitler, they all had odd facial hair ;D ;D) to a real socialist who could have led them down the road to real world equality, of course now these 'businessmen' can drop the "comrade" prefix, sell the Volga and the house overlooking Red Square and start running global empires. There's equality.

And don't get me started on George Dubya Bush and his cronies! We'd be here all night! ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

In time honoured Russian tradition I predict the following for Jordanski

production of Jordanski F1 cars will go up 4000% each year (thanks to the heroic efficiency of the workers)

Jordanski will win every F1 race in 2005 (thanks to the glorious drivers of the Jordanski Workers Republic)

All F1 teams will become glorious workers republics for the 2006 season (the dialectic is unstoppable comrades)

Eddie Jordan never existed. (Photographs of Eddie Jordan are nothing but Imperialist forgeries designed to undermine the heroic struggle of the Jordanski F1 team

All heroic mechanics of the Jordanski F1 team are equal. No mechanics are to be allowed within 100 metres of the Jordanski Peoples Palace (motorhome)

They will then spend 50 years threatening the Minardi team with war, saying that they are the dominant power and will destroy them by the end of the season, buy will acheive f*ck all and collapse in on themselves in spectacular fashion

They may also exploit a small carribean island F1 team who have recently had a revolution, and persuade them to set up some Jordans right next door to the Minardi garage so that they can then deny they're there despite surveillance evidence proving it.

Let's face it, whoever owns the F1 teams it's still going to be another year of dull, boring processions around the track. I can't bring myself to watch it, and haven't managed to sit through a full race for six or seven years - it just sends me to sleep. I used to watch the BTCC but that's gone wibblepoo now too. Ho-hum.

cant wait for the f1 season to start again , its the only way i get a nap on a sunday afternoon lol

Doubt it. With all the teams in the back pocket of large financial firms more emoney than ever will be poured into R&D for the new regulations, making the car get around the rules and it will accomplish nothing.
The "kit car" era is truly dead.
Why can't we just have Cosworth DFVs (I would say the greatest racing engine the world has ever known, but I suppose you could also say the immortal Offenhauser 4 cyl Indy engine.), big flat slicks and ground effect. Oh wait, we do and its called Thouroughbred Grand Prix and its brilliant, like any historic championships, ERAs and Group C's anyone?
Put that on Sunday and people would get back into racing. Retro F1 - like Retro Cars, going backwards is the way forwards.