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Fry: 11th Formula 1 team is possible

Rumours are getting stronger and stronger about Honda setting up a second Formula 1 team. BAR boss Nick Fry thinks there is a 65% chance that we will see another Honda F1 team in F1.

"I think there is a 65 percent chance of it happening," he said at Suzuka. "If it wasn't that likely, we would not be saying anything (about it). But it is a tall order to put this type of thing together in six months."

The team won't be a B-team branded with by 'Honda' but another company will run it. The team is in talks with Bridgestone currently and would be supplied by Honda engines and supported in its technical development by Honda.

"It is going to be tough, no doubt about it, but Honda would not have mentioned this unless it was relatively credible," Fry commented. "Discussions with Honda have been going on for a few months already and I am sure the potential new Formula One team has done its homework before that."

"You don't come out and say these kind of things without a fair bit of activity having happened previously. It is going to be very difficult to do it next season but we will try to do it and see what happens. We have been asked numerous times about the nationality, but we are not giving that away at this stage because it would point in a certain direction, but these are credible people with motor racing experience and the financial backing to do the job."

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