http://www.expansion.com/2009/11/22/empresas/1258928606.html

I found an interesting article about Campos through a Marca.com link.

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José Ramón Carabante es el máximo responsable del equipo participado también por Adrián Campos, Meta Image, Pau Gasol y Jorge Garbajosa.

El equipo estará en las pitas "con un presupuesto de 46 millones de euros" (un millón más respecto al límite voluntario establecido por la FIA).
Para ello, "ya hemos invertido entre 12 y 14 millones de euros en la preparación de los monoplazas",

La región de Murcia ha dado un aval a Campos Meta por 25 millones de euros para el montaje de la escudería y de la fábrica en la comunidad, donde crearán más de 200 puestos de trabajo. Además, Murcia aporta 3 millones de euros anuales como patrocinador de la escudería.

14 millones de euros procedentes de empresas de Brasil...
Una vez que se firmen estos acuerdos, el equipo ya contaría con 26 millones de euros, más "diez millones por los derechos de televisión de la FOM".
Pero todavía quedan por cubrir otros 20 millones de euros para alcanzar el presupuesto límite. Los fondos de la escudería se cubren con los patrocinadores que vienen con el piloto.
[Bruno Senna would bring Embratel]

Telefónica y Mutua (patrocinadores de Renault), no estarán en los monoplazas."

Can you translate?

"Pitas" kinda = "jailbait" in portuguese. "The team will be onto the jailbait".

Well, the article is a bit confusing and Spanish is not my language, nor English so super sumary...

Carabante comments about the financial health of Campos Meta:
> The team has a Business Plan of 46M Euros [for 2010].
> The team invested E14M in dallara to provide a chassis [understood Cossie is not included, but Williams had its package for USD5M or USD3.5M].
> The Spanish Murcia State agreed to support the team in E25M for building their headquarter there and the generation of +200 jobs.
> Murcial will also provide E3M on annual basis as sponsorship.

> The team counts with E14M comming from Brazil, yet to be signed.
> Another source of money would be E10M from FOM TV rights.
> The missing E20M would come from drivers.
Senna would bring Embratel [Carlos Slim] support [not signed].
Maldonado [PDVSA] or Petrov [GAZPROM].
> The lack of Spanish sponsors impedes PDLR to drive for the team as Telefonica and Mutua Madrilena are out due to the crisis.

Campos car homologated by the FIA


http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80325

First of the new boys, so that's good. I wonder when the others will translate from wind tunnel (or CFD) to crash-test dummy?

Very good indeed. So this is probably 99.9% confirmation that at least one of the new teams will be fully prepared and with good testing miles under the belt by the time they get to Bahrain.

And for a start-up team like this, associating with a famous race car builder like Dallara can't be bad at all.

Without all those wild winglets, a F1 is just like a king-sized-jumbo F3.

I just wonder how Dallara calculated the size of fuel tanks once they don't know the final consumption of Cossie engines
It was reported that the minimum consumption was alarming...

Interesting. Got a source for that?

Basic fuel cell for 2010 will probably be something like 190-200 liters for most of the teams, maybe up to 215-220 for the thirstiest engines. The FIA certainly didn't set an upper limit for its size, so in layman terms, they can build a 300-liter fuel tank and they won't risk running out of fuel.

If the Cosworth is more thirsty, then I expect they'll estimate the consumption at ~210 liters/race.

(This based on the last few seasons with a single tankful for a race)

Brazilian journalist Celso Itibere.

Look at it:


Edit:

Sometime ago during this year there were talks about FIA providing telemetry data to Cosworth.

Thanks. Not really an empirical evaluation though is it. Alarming to who, and by what sort of margin is it worse than Mercedes (which ought to be the benchmark engine I think)? I suppose we'll get to find out next year.

Exactly, we'll have to wait the February 1st (Williams shake down with Barrichello) to have tangible info about it.
By alarming I understand much worse than the Ferrari's.

Thanks.

Rubens told it to the journos after signing Williams.

Piquet thinks that they're still looking for a Spaniard but that he's not out of it: 'I would be absolutely delighted.... But they seem to be looking for a Spanish pilot'.

I've also read that Renault is trying to place Grosjean at the team.

Grosjean shouldn't be allowed anywhere near an F1 car. He wasn't even close to Piquet.

Piquet jr 1 year as a test driver + 1½ years as a race driver
Grosjean 7 races as race driver


With proper winter program Grosjean would be good. He was close to Fernando's times when he got it right. Too bad he didn't get it right very often.

Piquet practically never was close to the times of Alonso. And spun a lot in his early races. Grosjean spun a lot too, but at least he was fast sometimes.

"Bruno has an undeniable talent," said Campos.





Senna: "Petrov and Maldonado fight for 2nd place"

Team's representatives will have a meet in Petrobras headquarters in Rio, today. [ Grande Prêmio ]

Pictures from yesterday presentation (in Brazil):

Parente under the radar at Campos?

This report has echoed in Brazilian media yesterday too.

That would be great - although I think there's little between Bruno's talent and his talent, so it could be a little bit of a risky move long-term: if things are close, the Senna surname will shine more. But you have got to start somewhere.

A. Campos looks like a younger and little chubbier version of Luca Di Montezemolo

?

http://esporte.ig.com.br/grandepremio/form...ra+9197112.html

Yesterday there was a meeting between people from Campos Meta (not Adrian) and Petrobras. It's probable that Petrobras return to F1 next year as fuel supplier for the Spanish team.

This worries me.
I don't understand why Campos flown in Brazil and not participating the meeting.

New download page in Campos Meta website

http://www.camposmeta.com/

interesting

That front end is almost identical to the launch MP4-24...

Thats a Mclaren lol. One of the other images is also a photoshopped Ferrari!

I thought those wheel fairings were illegal for 2010?

F60 anyone?

I'd be very surprised if they'd release photos of their real design before it's actually ready to go out on track.

Maybe negotiating the kick back

But seriouslly, better to concentrate on a concrete deal visiting the headquarter of Petrobras - juiced by the clone of a local hero - than elbow with other 5-10 teams for some slushy sponsorship proposals at the Forum.
The megalomaniac president wants Petrobras to advertise the progress of the company and Brazil.

Furthermore, the deal might also help on the technical side, as Senna said that a better fuel can make them carry less fuel at the start, and that is a serious cpncern for Cossi powered cars.

There was some kind of presentation for Senna as their new driver in Brazil.

These talks with F1 rookies is a bad strange for Campos, it's a sign they may not have enough backing and need a lot more from drivers. All of the other teams are looking for experienced drivers, just Campos wants rookies. I think Senna-Maldonado would be great, lots of talent!

I think there's two schools of thought to that - personally I don't think that those with recent experience of F1 that are available are up to much - Wurz wasn't particularly good at Williams, and I just don't believe de la Rosa is that good full stop to have everyone after his signature.

About the only one I rate is probably JV.

Yeah, both Senna and Maldonado are very talented, but w/o in season testing... I see it as their 1st signs of financial weakness.
They were supposed to be the most solid outfit with Dallara and sports marketing agency, looks like the agency isn't too good at delivering their part of the deal.

Economic crisis in Spain is really big, funding the team is going to be difficult.

I'm not buying it. Parente was constantly linked to Virgin, but it seems Virgin lost patience with him. Then, almost overnight, he's suddenly in contention for the Campos seat alongside a Brazilian driver, according to the Brazilian press. While I'm not saying he's not in talks, I do suspect his chances are being a little exaggerated as Campos himself said recently that it's probabl going to be Petrov or Maldonado.

This is not actually a Brazilian media report, just the usual F1 gossip picked by GMM.

A Brazilian newspaper was the first place I saw it.

I remember seeing it at some web version of a Brazilian newspaper and remembering that I've read that on other f1 sites on the web a couple of days before.

It seems so, they will hope Senna and his family contacts to help them find Brazilian sponsorship and then Parente with his management to find some sponsorship from Portugal and the football fields. His management is a company involved in football, thus his Soccerade energy drink deal(along with Massa and Christiano Ronaldo).

A friend told me that 40% of permanent Dallara's staff is working for the F1 car. Two wind tunnels are working in shifts 20 hours a day with four scale models.
Physically, at the moment, there is only one monocoque.
Poster-rig and wind tunnels are obviously off-limits.

So does that mean the new teams are not subject to the wind tunnel restrictions that the rest of the grid have?

It wouldn't surprise me, if it meant the teams stood a better chance of making the grid. I don't think FOTA would object to it too much, since it's ridiculously unlikely that they'll be able to catch up.

Maybe bcs Dallara is a contractor, not a FIA F1 team.

I think Dallara are counted as a design studio, not a constructor.

But even that is not a way around the rules. Red Bull and Toro Ross both buy their chassis from a third party, the Red Bull Technology Centre (which is how they get around the ban on customer chassis), which is also a design studio. They're still bound by the same rules as everyone else.