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FIA Formula One 2019 |OT| Oil Mining vs. Energy Drinks vs. Big Tobacco, pick your poison
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The vetting process should have gone a little like this.
VP of marketing Haas F1
"Hey Haas marketing team..I am both thirsty and in need of a bit more vetting of our potential new sponsorship partner. How about you head out and buy me a can of Rich Energy...what's that? You cam't find their amazingly successful product for sale?
Hmm we might want to hold off on the announcement...get me a coke instead."
I mean the Austrian Grand Prix has been sponsored by a Ponzi scheme for the last few years...
The whole backstory to this must have gone over my head.
How exactly did these people manage to get themselves a prime spot on a formula 1 car?
How exactly did these people manage to get themselves a prime spot on a formula 1 car?
Smoke and mirrors, hypnotism or threatening to break someone's legs. Or all three.
The vetting process went like this:
VP of marketing
"This Rich Energy company seems super shady."
Gene Haas
"Did the check clear?"
Next up is Rokkit for Williams. Watch! It will be glorious!
Yeah. I doubt Haas were going to have another title sponsor if Rich Energy (or rather, their bank) hadn't stumped up the cash. So it's basically bonus money for Haas that they wouldn't have otherwise gotten.
Off-track antics has always been part of the appeal of F1 to me. It's half-racing and half-drama.
Eh, Rokit is a bit of a fake vanity startup but it at least has actual, traceable money behind it, it's basically a entrepeneur motorsport fan siphoning money into racing from a tequila billionaire. It's not an obvious money laundering front like Rich Energy.
Man, that entire Rich Energy story was a roller coaster from beginning to end in flat out "WTF?"-ness. The amount of shady money that must be flowing in that shell company must've not been worth the heat it was attracting from observers everywhere. I can't wait for the exposé that'll come out from this in the future about how Haas ran with this idea. It's going to make for gripping reading.
I don't even know why, but it kind of gives me the same vibe as one of the HRT liveries which was a personal fave:I kinda preferred their old livery anyway.
(my other favourite, just quietly)
Even their battleship grey livery looked a lot better than the current one.I kinda preferred their old livery anyway.
I wonder what the Haas cars and team will look like tomorrow?
I guess they will keep the logos to not risk breaching any kind of contract while they look at the legal stuff?
I guess they will keep the logos to not risk breaching any kind of contract while they look at the legal stuff?
Rich Energy investors are trying to save a Haas deal, Motorsport reports
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/rich-energy-investors-save-haas-deal/4492346/
https://www.motorsport.com/f1/news/rich-energy-investors-save-haas-deal/4492346/
In fairness, Rokit actually exist and have products. lol
My niece works for them, and took my wife to Williams for the French GP. She got to chat to Sir Frank for a while. :)
Indeed :)
Interesting bit of info about Jordan King:
Interesting bit of info about Jordan King:
Helmut Marko must be laughing his arse off as he sips on his Red Bull reading this shit, especially with how sketchy Rich energy was to begin with. You know what, Fuck it, let the rollercoaster keep going. I wanna see how deep this rabbit hole goes.
Why does such a handsome man have such ridiculous facial hair?
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