Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2004/09/19
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ford, the owner of Jaguar is apparently doing badly. Traditionally Ford has supported racing, the current management do not. Cosworth Racing is also up for sale. Cosworth have designed, built and supported all Ford racing engines since the '60s, they are sole supplier to the American CART series and make the Chevrolet badged IRL engine. They are probably the best race engine designers in the world. If they go down all pure racing will suffer. In the US people like to watch tuned road car style racing. Elsewhere most money goes into F1 which has killed off smaller formula cars. The big car companies pulling out was predicted as was the storm we have to come. When I started F1 full time in 1976, there were probably fewer than 500 people in all the teams combined. Now Ferrari have 750 (to make 8 cars a year! and FWIW 1500 people to make the 4000 road cars) The problem is car companies have money beyond sport's widest dreams for marketing, this caused monstrous inflation ( there were 23 employees at Williams when I joined in 1978, there are about 500 now) lets hope the majority stay! Frank On 18 Sep, 2004, at 23:12, Phong wrote: > I heard of the Jaguar F1 team on National Public Radio, yesterday, > and thought of you, Frank. They also taled about substantial > job reduction in the Jaguar line. > > - Phong > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Gwpics@aol.com > Sent: Sep 18, 2004 2:25 AM > To: lug@leica-users.org > Subject: Re: [Leica] Lost Faith in Leica > > > > In a message dated 18/09/2004 05:20:09 GMT Daylight Time, > Frank.Dernie@btinternet.com writes: > > Sadly yesterday Ford announced the closing of the Jaguar factory > > > Not quite true Frank - they announced the closure of one of the Jaguar > factories to rationalise production at another plant. > > Gerry > > Gerry Walden LRPS > _www.gwpics.com_ (http://www.gwpics.com/) > +44 (0)23 8046 3076 > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >