F1 - Richards Planning Prodrive F1 Team
I'm betting Honda are right now going "oh shit" if he does get back !!!!
from itv-f1.com
RICHARDS PLANNING PRODRIVE F1 TEAM
Last Updated: Sunday, 18, December, 2005, 14:19
Former BAR-Honda and Benetton team boss David Richards says he is considering a return to Formula 1 with his own team in 2008, but only if the sport becomes cost effective for small outfits once more.
Richards, whose Prodrive preparation company is planning an F1 facility in Warwickshire according to F1 Racing magazine, admitted his plans depend on the sport adopting Max Mosley's cost-slashing proposals for 2008.
"If the changes that Max [Mosley] is trying to bring forward in the next couple of years come to fruition, I firmly believe there will be room for small organisations to operate within F1," DR said in the January edition of the magazine, which goes on sale Tuesday, December 20.
"A small, nimble outfit can actually tip the balance in F1 and bring it back to where it rightfully belongs –where the fans are."
Richards was forced to watch from the sidelines this year after he was ousted from his post at BAR when Honda bought 45% percent of the team in the winter of 2004.
And he warned that manufacturers must not be allowed to take over Formula 1.
"The Toyotas won't be around for ever, though," he added.
"The car makers – for eminently valid reasons – use motorsport as long as its useful to them. Then they discard it. And the independent teams will be left to pick up the pieces.
"If Max isn't allowed to succeed in his crusade, then more fool F1."
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