Stefan GP successfully test engine

Things seem to be progressing along quite nicely for Stefan GP (or as we like to call them…Step-In GP). According to AUTOSPORT, the team fired up its engine on the Stefan 01 today marking an historic moment for owner Serbian Zoran Stefanovic.

According to Stefanovic the team is working diligently on driver contract with the [...]

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Stefan GP seal Toyota deal, Whitmarsh approves

Serbian businessman Zoran Stefanovic, owner of want-to-be F1 team, Stefan GP has announced they will secure technical assistance from Toyota Motorsport GmbH. The arrangement comes after the recently departed Japanese car giant announced they would sell some technical and gray matter materials from their failed F1 operation as well as the chassis they have [...]

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Was a ‘green’ Toyota part of F1 pull-out rationale?

The Detroit Auto Show is offering Formula 1 fans a little more insight into why Toyota, at least, left the sport after last season.
And it looks like it isn’t entirely because the team couldn’t buy a victory for billions of dollars.
At the show, the first in the post-bankruptcy era — short-hand for our non-U.S. readers, [...]

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The real reason manufacturers left F1

An interesting read at the Telegraph by Christian Sylt and Caroline Reid regarding the reason car manufacturers left F1. Doing their digging through quarterly reports and financials from each of the car makers they have come to the conclusion that like all decisions made in business, it centers on profit and loss. No [...]

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Stefan GP car passes crash test

As a supplemental report on the heels of Grace’s question/story on Stefan GP; it seems teh team has passed a crash test with their car:

StefanGP announce that our car Stefan S-01 successfully pass crash tests.
That is done internally by independent outsourcing company.
This tests are performed under strict FIA mandatory rule implementation and is carried as [...]

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