Shortly before 7:00 pm this Friday, the new investors behind the purchase of the Marussia team released a statement assuring their intention to be on the 2015 season grid and providing more details about the rescue operation of the structure.<\/p>\n
Following the buyout procedure initiated by the administrators of Marussia F1, FRP Advisory, earlier in the week, and with confidence that this step has contributed to Marussia’s rescue operation, the team is delighted to be able to confirm some details of this process:<\/p>\n
– Le 17 d\u00e9cembre 2014, l’\u00e9quipe a demand\u00e9 au Groupe Strat\u00e9gique d’\u00e9tudier la possibilit\u00e9 de l’autoriser \u00e0 utiliser une voiture de 2014, modifi\u00e9e pour \u00eatre en accord avec certaines r\u00e8gles de 2015, pour une partie de la saison 2015. Apr\u00e8s analyse, l’\u00e9quipe a mis en lumi\u00e8re le fait que cela ne n\u00e9cessiterait que la dispense d’un petit nombre de clauses de la r\u00e9glementation seulement.<\/p>\n
– A la suite de cette demande, l’\u00e9quipe a \u00e9t\u00e9 inform\u00e9e le 5 janvier 2015 que le Groupe Strat\u00e9gique a estim\u00e9 que deux \u00e9quipes \u2013 Marussia et Caterham \u2013 devraient \u00eatre autoris\u00e9es \u00e0 faire rouler une voiture de 2014 dans le championnat 2015. La lettre indique que le Groupe Strat\u00e9gique \u00e9tait d’accord avec le fait que la voiture devait respecter la r\u00e9glementation technique 2015 \u00e0 l’exception de 4 articles (les articles 3.7.9, 15.4.3, 15.4.4 et 16.2). L’\u00e9quipe peut confirmer que les modifications effectu\u00e9es sur sa voiture de 2014 correspondent \u00e0 ces stipulations.<\/p>\n
– Une modification des R\u00e8glements \u00e0 ce point requiert le consentement unanime de toutes les \u00e9quipes et \u00e0 la suite de l’initiation de la proc\u00e9dure de rachat, l’\u00e9quipe est maintenant pleinement engag\u00e9e dans la r\u00e9alisation de cela. Cette proc\u00e9dure implique de fournir toutes les informations pertinentes aux \u00e9quipes pour leur permettre de pleinement prendre en compte sa requ\u00eate.<\/p>\n
– Comme le communiqu\u00e9 de presse de FRP Advisory l’indique, \u00e9tant donn\u00e9 la nature confidentielle des n\u00e9gociations en cours, ni eux ni l’\u00e9quipe n’\u00e9taient en capacit\u00e9 de fournir plus de d\u00e9tails concernant les nouveaux investisseurs, cependant ces investisseurs ont soit parl\u00e9, soit rencontr\u00e9 les instances-cl\u00e9s de la F1.<\/p>\n
– L’\u00e9quipe a \u00e9t\u00e9 occup\u00e9e \u00e0 pr\u00e9parer ses voitures de 2014 afin qu’elles correspondent aux stipulations du Groupe Strat\u00e9gique et, en m\u00eame temps, elle presse le d\u00e9veloppement de sa voiture 2015 pour s’assurer qu’elle succ\u00e8de \u00e0 la voiture de 2014 le plus t\u00f4t possible.<\/p>\n
– L’\u00e9quipe a d\u00e9j\u00e0 un personnel significatif qui travaille sur ses deux voitures. Elle a aussi \u00e9t\u00e9 capable de recruter du personnel suppl\u00e9mentaire tr\u00e8s rapidement \u00e0 partir du riche pool de gens exp\u00e9riment\u00e9s et qualifi\u00e9s qui ont \u00e9t\u00e9 laiss\u00e9s sans emploi \u00e0 la suite des fermetures de Marussia et Caterham et aux licenciements effectu\u00e9s par les autres \u00e9quipes de la discipline. \u00bb<\/p>\n
Graeme Lowdon, representing Manor, explains in this statement that since the request on December 17, 2014, no request has been made by the organization to the Strategy Group: \u00ab It was a very good step to finally start the acquisition process this week. It’s the first external sign we could give after all the hard work done privately over the last four months to be in the current position.<\/p>\n
I was surprised to hear some comments today, especially regarding a request we supposedly made during yesterday’s meeting, which I can confirm was not the case. We submitted a request on December 17 of last year and have since been working to meet the requirements that were communicated to us (on January 5, 2015, Editor’s Note), particularly the compliance with all Regulations, except for the articles we were exempted from. The comments also mentioned that compliance issues were raised, that our request lacked substance, and did not contain any supporting documentation to strengthen our exemption request. Again, we made no request to yesterday’s Strategic Group and have not been contacted to do so.<\/p>\n
Instead, we are moving forward in our compliance process and establishing our operations. We are doing everything possible to adhere to the process that will allow us to return to the grid in 2015. It’s a fantastic new story for the discipline, and we just want to race.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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