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Originally Posted by mountainstar
No speake italiano.
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The link is in English! You just could try it out
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Originally Posted by mountainstar
I've heard they are considering pulling the plug. And no they don't make money on the irl engine program. What is paid for the lease doesn't cover all the costs of the engines and logistics, not to mention all the free tickets they buy and subsidizing of races they do.
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Dunno where you find these data: they've stopped investing in R&S since Toyota quit, and lease prices have not been reduced, yet the customers increased in number: you can trust they make money
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Originally Posted by mountainstar
All that stuff about 2013, they can pull the plug anytime they want to. They just yanked it on the F1 team and nobody saw that coming.
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Absolutely true, but that can happen as well to the series you love.
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Originally Posted by mountainstar
The irl is in europe this week panhandling to Audi and Alfa and others to try to get an engine program from them. Good luck.
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Yes but that move was scheduled previsoulsy, just in the perspective to make the series more interesting as you and others claimed. Nothing to share with the current problems.