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Feb 04 2010

Stefan is F1’s mystery team

Alan Henry
Zoran Stefanovich seems to know something that nobody else in F1 does. The Serbian businessman is currently preparing to test his own F1 car and insists that he has already freighted some of the surplus Toyota F1 equipment to Bahrain in preparation for the first race of the season.

Trouble is, as things stand at the moment Stefanovcich has no entry for the 2010 world championship. But he is determined to press ahead with a test at the Portimao circuit in Portugal later this month with former Williams driver Kazuki Nakajima scheduled to be behind the wheel.



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Serbia’s first F1 team also seems to have secured the services of former McLaren chief designer Mike Coughlan, who left the Woking team under a cloud of smouldering Ferrari drawings which had illicitly come into his possession and ended up being incinerated in his back garden. But not before a  local photocopying shop contacted Ferrari to tell them that his missus had been in making duplicates of many Maranello drawings.

So which team does Mr Stefanovich believe will fail to make it onto the grid this  season, thereby making room for the re-branded Toyota squad to join in?

Newcomers Campos,Lotus, Virgin and US F1 maintain they will all be there.

We will keep you posted!

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Comments

johnfaganwilliams February 4, 2010 12:00 PM

And don't forget that Bernie seems VERY keen on this lot as well - wonder why that could be?

ACCobra427 February 4, 2010 12:43 PM

Yes, Bernie seems to have been willing USF1 and Campos to fail from the outset...and now the chatter is building and building.  I don't think Zoran would be shipping kit to Bahrain without a nod and a wink form the powers that be.  

I hope USF1 make the cut, it'll be fun to see them in the sport, maybe one day they could bring Danica Patrick to the sport...now that would make it worth watching!

Richard H February 4, 2010 1:21 PM

As long as we don't have another Onyx Moneytron on our hands, then good luck to them.

(I know, showing my age!)

MattDB February 4, 2010 5:20 PM

I hope the job lot from Toyota included lots of spares if Nakajima is driving as he likes a few extra off road excursions!!

TheWizardWeb February 5, 2010 11:14 AM

I'm hearing rumours that most F1 folk don't want them in the sport due to dubious sources of funding. Hence the insistance that teams can miss 3 events...

I'm sure Bernie is up to something though, otherwise why would Toyota have become involved and no action taken against them for breaking their contract with the concorde agreement.

Mind you though, with Coughlan and Ryan, surely they need to hire Pat Symonds, Flav and Nigel Stepney to complete the set? ;-)

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