Is It "wurz At Williams " For The Third Test Seat

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There are to many F1 web-sites that put out cr@p so as to get attention of the dim-witted and then retract said story..........No Narain i'm not calling you dim-witted.............

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infact the opposite,i have exposed them

the previous article is missing from the site today...

and infact it went missing a few hours before today's article appeared ..and i did feel that maybe they have some new report

how right i was(sadly)

Try to write in fluid sentences.

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Williams will pay Wurz

There is a good sign for all Formula 1 fans out there with the news that Williams has decided not to go down the route of taking on a test driver with money and will be paying Alexander Wurz in 2006.

The team had been discussing doing deals with Narain Karthikeyan and Nicolas Kiesa if they could bring substantial sponsorship to the team but decided in the end that it would send out all the wrong messages and with Wurz available it seemed like a good move.

Karthikeyan has a decent amount of backing from India's Tata Motors but at the moment has nowhere to spend it. Having said that it is highly unlikely that the Indian will end up with nothing as there is bound to be a team which wants a little extra cash. On top of that, Formula One company boss Bernie Ecclestone is unlikely to want to see Narain walk away as he is the key to the vast Indian TV market.

We hear, incidentally, that Ryan Briscoe also popped up in the negotiations at Williams. The Australian is a very experienced F1 test driver having cut his teeth with Toyota.

The Japanese firm is expected to be Williams's engine supplier next season and Briscoe could well be in the menu for Williams in 2007. For the time being, however, Ryan is still looking for a job in America. He recently tested for the PKV Racing Champ Car team at Sebring but also made a flying visit to Spain to help out Toyota when Olivier Panis was unable to go testing.

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I am extremely happy to see that yet another door has closed for NK and that he is out of a decent team. He has no place in F1, no one wants him no mater how much money he puts on the table, and if he is going to be there just to contribute money to a team and a foot into the Indian market they should create TATA F1-Racing as they did SAF1 for that other clown (Sato).

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Williams will pay Wurz

There is a good sign for all Formula 1 fans out there with the news that Williams has decided not to go down the route of taking on a test driver with money and will be paying Alexander Wurz in 2006.

The team had been discussing doing deals with Narain Karthikeyan and Nicolas Kiesa if they could bring substantial sponsorship to the team but decided in the end that it would send out all the wrong messages and with Wurz available it seemed like a good move.

Karthikeyan has a decent amount of backing from India's Tata Motors but at the moment has nowhere to spend it. Having said that it is highly unlikely that the Indian will end up with nothing as there is bound to be a team which wants a little extra cash. On top of that, Formula One company boss Bernie Ecclestone is unlikely to want to see Narain walk away as he is the key to the vast Indian TV market.

We hear, incidentally, that Ryan Briscoe also popped up in the negotiations at Williams. The Australian is a very experienced F1 test driver having cut his teeth with Toyota.

The Japanese firm is expected to be Williams's engine supplier next season

www.grandprix.com

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Obviously williams have now signed the semi works deal(with lexus/toyota) ,that is the reason why they have gone for wurz,also in december they signed a sponsorship deal with "phillips" so this is the change since the first week of december when they called narain for a test and that also was the reason why RON saw no danger in testing wurz as recently as dec 10th,as soon as he saw some smoke though ,he gave a 1 week deadline and wurz has since then not been allowed to even go near the interim mclaren-v8.that is the reason why williams did not deny media reports ,that talked of kiesta and narain being the 2 choices so ron would not have thought in his dreams that wurz is heading towards growe with all his mclaren secrets ,but the lexus deal may have been finalised in the last week of december,that was when williams denied media reports that narain was soon going to get a contract

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Hmm he is obviously a far better test driver than Narain, also the fact that he has come straight from Mclaren cant do any harm. Is he worth around 6 million pounds that they lose out on?hmmmmmm

I saw the writing on the wall when I read Sam Michael's comments, he said in technical feedback NK was 'OK' which is obviously the PC way of saying that he was awful.

As for grandprix.com, they have a record of jumping the gun based on vague rumours, they did it on the BMW Sauber issue too another notable occasion when they were wrong. They have been right on a few occasions, but that is entirely meaningless in face of such huge gaffes.

If he had any sense now, he would go to A1 along with Tata. The mediocrity of most drivers there coupled with the facts that 5 million will go much further in A1 (where the Indian team is struggling financially) and that there is far more hope of India having an A1 race than an F1 race in the foreseeable future.

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Hmm he is obviously a far better test driver than Narain, also the fact that he has come straight from Mclaren cant do any harm. Is he worth around 6 million pounds that they lose out on?hmmmmmm

I saw the writing on the wall when I read Sam Michael's comments, he said in technical feedback NK was 'OK' which is obviously the PC way of saying that he was awful.

As for grandprix.com, they have a record of jumping the gun based on vague rumours, they did it on the BMW Sauber issue too another notable occasion when they were wrong. They have been right on a few occasions, but that is entirely meaningless in face of such huge gaffes.

If he had any sense now, he would go to A1 along with Tata. The mediocrity of most drivers there coupled with the facts that 5 million will go much further in A1 (where the Indian team is struggling financially) and that there is far more hope of India having an A1 race than an F1 race in the foreseeable future.

infact pitpass.com have mocked at grandprix.com for theie goof up

and i dont remember SM saying anything abut nk's feedback, can u provide a quote please

and narain's sship was worth $5 million,anyway irrelavent if williams signed a semiworks deal with toyota

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NK is out in the cold due to two facts:

1-he is a really crap driver, and all the money in the world still did not make him an asset to Williams.

2-Williams did not want to pull their good name and reputation into the dirt by having to associate, at any length, with TATA, arguably the worst car manufacturer the planet has ever seen.

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If he (NK) had any sense now, he would go to A1 along with Tata. The mediocrity of most drivers there coupled with the facts that 5 million will go much further in A1 (where the Indian team is struggling financially) and that there is far more hope of India having an A1 race than an F1 race in the foreseeable future.

Finally a Indian who has 20/20 vision. Yes, NK is at best mediocre, and India would be far better served with a A1 GP than F1 for now. No worries, India will produce some great drivers, but for now (as with Japan) you have not come up with the goods.

With regards to Wurz, I don't think anyone at Woking will be shedding tears over his departure.

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With regards to Wurz, I don't think anyone at Woking will be shedding tears over his departure.

noone will shed a tear,but u have to admit that wurz has tested as recently as the 2nd week of december and knows a thing or 2 about the mclaren car and merc engine,accept the fact that ron made a very rare mistake ,and

corrected in a hurry by givibg wurz a 1 week deadline and signing gary paffet

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noone will shed a tear,but u have to admit that wurz has tested as recently as the 2nd week of december and knows a thing or 2 about the mclaren car and merc engine,accept the fact that ron made a very rare mistake ,and

corrected in a hurry by givibg wurz a 1 week deadline and signing gary paffet

Maybe he was of the impression that Wurz was so undesirable that no one in their right mind would want him

Seriously, I dont think he will know too much about the new car, he probably havent seen it yet. I think Wurz has been assigned to mostly tyre and brake evaluations. RD has his ship under control.

I don't know anything about Gary Paffet besides from him taking out DTM, but some are rating him like he was three time WDC already.

Wurz can always go back to BMX, i hear its really big in Albania...

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TATA, arguably the worst car manufacturer the planet has ever seen.

On what basis do you make such a fallacious statement ?. I am sure this is not one of the reasons that Fiat have

signed an MoU with them....., Unless you are implying that Fiat is as bad as TATA....wonder what Ferrari would have to say about that

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On what basis do you make such a fallacious statement ?. I am sure this is not one of the reasons that Fiat have

signed an MoU with them....., Unless you are implying that Fiat is as bad as TATA....wonder what Ferrari would have to say about that

Fiat would go to any lenght to sell a car or make a lire (euro). Do you remember them being the only western manufacturer able to crack the iron curtain? The MoU is nothing more than a feasibility study to see if Fiat can contribute anything to Tata so that India can be flooded with more crap cars of the same quality as the tinl Fiats of the 60s, 70s and 80s. Yeah, Tata rocks alright.

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TATA, arguably the worst car manufacturer the planet has ever seen.

No, their cars are excellent for where they sell them. Cars are built for a market, they may be woeful for wherever you are, but they work well where they're sold.

If you are referring to the City Rover - yes that was a very bad move.

Tata is comfortably outselling major world manufacturers in India.

Not everyone in the world can afford cars that expensive.

eg Tata is planning to bring in a car for approx. USD 2100-2200. Guess what that can do for people in developing countries, a car for half the price of the cheapest car in the world (sold in india too incidentally).

Not the whole world call afford a Rolls...

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No, their cars are excellent for where they sell them. Cars are built for a market, they may be woeful for wherever you are, but they work well where they're sold.

If you are referring to the City Rover - yes that was a very bad move.

Tata is comfortably outselling major world manufacturers in India.

Not everyone in the world can afford cars that expensive.

eg Tata is planning to bring in a car for approx. USD 2100-2200. Guess what that can do for people in developing countries, a car for half the price of the cheapest car in the world (sold in india too incidentally).

Not the whole world call afford a Rolls...

u are referring to the RS"1 lakh" car which incidentally is going to be launched in various markets in 2006/07 and will be half the price of the "maruthi suzuki 800"

actually tata motors is not the best ,anyway ,even by indian (dismal* ) standards

* until recently before honda,toyota cheverolet,hyundai,skoda ,all stepped in

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The India Turbo Diesel is best in class now

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The India Turbo Diesel is best in class now

I don't want to sound like a hypocrit, but I dread the day 500 million Indians are driving around in ultra polluting $2000 Tata's. Such a development can't be good for the planet.

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The India Turbo Diesel is best in class now

it was similar to the variant launched as "city rover"

santro is the best now

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I don't want to sound like a hypocrit, but I dread the day 500 million Indians are driving around in ultra polluting $2000 Tata's. Such a development can't be good for the planet.

You know something we don't?

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I don't want to sound like a hypocrit, but I dread the day 500 million Indians are driving around in ultra polluting $2000 Tata's. Such a development can't be good for the planet.

India has had modern emission norms for a while now...

NF - Santro is a pile of s**t

The Palio is a better car but FIAT is dead in India now

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India has had modern emission norms for a while now...

NF - Santro is a pile of s**t

The Palio is a better car but FIAT is dead in India now

they have themselves to blame

in the "license raj" they were happy to sell the 74 models

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That wasnt a fiat, in the same way that the ambassador is not a standard herald, or whatever its derived from.

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That wasnt a fiat, in the same way that the ambassador is not a standard herald, or whatever its derived from.

i give up

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That wasnt a fiat, in the same way that the ambassador is not a standard herald, or whatever its derived from.

Morris Oxford/Cowley, I believe. They tried importing the Ambassador here recently. It didn't catch on.

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Morris Oxford/Cowley, I believe. They tried importing the Ambassador here recently. It didn't catch on.

Not surprising, to sell it as a pseudo antique, it has to be completely modernised on the inside, if you know what I mean.

It handles like a ship

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My dad used to have a Vauxhall Victor - I think they are the Contessa over there.