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Prodrive not giving up on F1
30 November 2007Prodrive is not giving up on entering F1 despite having its plans to debut in 2008 dashed, boss David Richards has insisted. His plans had to be shelved after Williams threatened legal action in light of the fact that a new Concorde agreement had not been reached to allow customer cars.
Richards had spent this year agreeing a customer deal with McLaren Mercedes and had sponsors lined up ready for a 2008 entry.
"We need to see what a new Concorde agreement is going to say," Richards told Autosport. "I still believe F1 is the right place for Prodrive to be. The premise on which we put our entry in has changed dramatically and everyone acknowledges that situation."
"If we can't enter on that basis then so be it, but we need to know what a newe Concorde agreement will say," he added. "If for instance, it determines you need to be a constructor then we need to understand what the definition of a constructor is: how many common components are going to be allowed in the future because what resource will we need to achieve that?"
"We have an entry for next year and I am in discussions with the FIA about the status for that [in 2009]," Richards went on. "But it really comes down to the nature of the new Concorde Agreement and whether we can commit to that."
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