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Eccentric F1 team owner Jean-Pierre Van Rossem dies
Jean-Pierre Van Rossem, the flamboyant Belgian financier who supported and partly owned the Onyx F1 team in 1989 has died at the age of 73. Over the course of F1's almost seven-decade history, flamboyant team owners and benefactors have come and gone in the sport, but Van Rossem undoubtedly left a lasting impression during his brief stint in Grand Prix racing, albeit not always for the right reasons. The Belgian's claim to fame in the late 1980s was to have been the inventor of a sophisticated econometric system - Moneytron - allegedly capable of predicting big movements in the stock market. In reality, the scheme - which perhaps started out as genuine statistical method pioneered by Van...
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