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Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« on: November 30, 2014, 12:08:28 PM »
You can buy whole race car, but sadly Ferrari keeps engines.  ;) 

http://cal.cagp.com/event/marussia/#imageclose-1
« Last Edit: November 30, 2014, 12:12:55 PM by John S »


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Offline Wizzo

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #1 on: November 30, 2014, 01:09:44 PM »
That's really sad to see. Good luck to them.
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Offline cosworth151

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #2 on: November 30, 2014, 04:24:38 PM »
I was hoping someone would buy them just to get the entry for next season. Sad to see them go.

I wonder if any of the Cosworth cars are still around? Maybe I should forward the link to Angie, just in case she's wondering what to get her old Dad for Christmas.
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Offline Irisado

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2014, 09:05:12 PM »
It is extremely sad.  If I had any cash I'd love to bid on some items, but I have none.
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Offline F1fanaticBD

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2014, 06:18:14 AM »
The sad demise of a team that promised so much. Who would have thought, that theywould fold so quickly after grabbing the first point (actually two) and ending the year as ninth (Above Caterham & Sauber) when their goal was to finish 10th. I just can't seem to stop to see the irony. Had they been told they would be finishing 9th after 23rd November with two points, they would have been absolutely delighted to the brim. But the cost would be no less than the team itself and the star, the prodige who would not be racing for a long time and will be fighting not for positions or the seat next year, but for the dear life of his own.

The tale of Marussia, the story sadness, the truimph and the tragedy, its the story of 2014, not the jaggernaut of Mercedes or the reclaimation as the world's best by Lewis Hamilton, and like all great stories this is a story of profound tregedy.
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Offline Scott

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2014, 07:19:00 AM »
Well said, BD.  :good: :good:
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Offline Alianora La Canta

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #6 on: December 13, 2014, 04:42:01 PM »
Something I'd like to note. The 2013-and-before stuff goes this week... ...the 2014 stuff (including GP3 team) is sold on 21st January 2015. It may sound strange, but I don't think this team has given up being in F1 (or GP3) next year yet.

With Caterham getting the "same car in 2015 as 2014" dispensation, the design bay can be emptied next year, in the hope that a sponsor will re-kit it (directly or otherwise) in time for the 2016 design. After all, you can't have a dispensation for one team and not the other. Most manufacturing can be done by specialist companies, provided there are some to whom the old Marussia entity doesn't owe money already. So the 2015 car could in fact be done without there being any particular facility - the Manor team would just need a temporary race facility (Dinnington, at a guess) to tide them over until they could get their own design/construction facility again.

Maybe the probability of Manor making the grid is low, but it does exist. And if me buying one of their computers at auction (as I am trying to do to replace my Jordan-era PC) makes their/their creditor's Christmas a little less fraught, I'm all for it.
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Offline lkjohnson1950

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #7 on: December 13, 2014, 05:42:37 PM »
WOW!   :swoon:  Hello Alia, welcome back.
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Offline Scott

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #8 on: December 13, 2014, 09:02:34 PM »
No kidding....great post Ali.  As usual, I had no idea.  Hope you get high bid on the computer and you find something interesting hidden away on a HD partition they forgot to wipe.
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Offline Alianora La Canta

Re: Own piece of Marussia F1, your chance now at auction
« Reply #9 on: December 14, 2014, 09:44:43 AM »
Thanks :) I'm not expecting any software left on it (except, if I'm lucky, Windows 7) but it'll be nice having that link with a team I've come to appreciate a lot over the last few months in particular.

Any of you who are after a computer and can make arrangements for collection (which would probably mean visiting the factory...) should have a look over the catalogue on capg.com, because there is some seriously nice kit there (including some multiple computers available as job lots) that, although possibly as much as 3 years old, will have been well looked-after and properly maintained. Also, the predictable mass of memorabillia and assorted light-industry items.
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