OT: Rumor that Bill Gates purchased..., Jordan F1 Team Options

[Stutgart46]

A rumor came out yesterday that Bill Gates has purchased the Jordan F1 team. They will be using Toyota engines and no drivers have been selected.
I was wondering if anybody else had heard this yet?

[mudfoot76]

A rumor came out yesterday that Bill Gates has purchased the Jordan F1 team. [...]
I was wondering if anybody else had heard this yet?

Apparently, the webmaster for Jordan F1 hasn't heard:
http://www.f1jordan.com/

Nor the folks over at Formula1.com:
formula1.com

(at least at the time I am writing this...)

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[crash914]

I did not see anything on www.crash.net last I heard, there were some Saudi's that were bankrolling them....They did re-hire Mark Smith as technical director.....

[richardL]

The word I heard is that Christian Horner, owner of Arden International (a very successful F3000 team over the last few years) has struck a deal with Jordan - Horner will take over running the team allowing Eddie to retire. They are supposedly well funded (I don't know who by though)

Richard

[URY914]

I heard they're going to be running carbon fiber 914's with Jake's engines in them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[drew365]

I heard they're going to be running carbon fiber 914's with Jake's engines in them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Talking to yourself is okay, but when you start listening you cross the line. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

[SLITS]

I heard they're going to be running carbon fiber 914's with Jake's engines in them. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I'm gonna fund that, but the engines have to be changed. I wanna use the Flux Capacitor in combination with the Stage XXXXXXXXXXX Warp Drive.


Nanu Nanu

[davep]

Can you imagine running Microsoft software for engine management, etc?
Could give an entirely new meaning to the blue screen of death!
Would that make signing up drivers a little more difficult?

[Brad Smith]

Can you imagine running Microsoft software for engine management, etc?
Could give an entirely new meaning to the blue screen of death!
Would that make signing up drivers a little more difficult?

Microsoft software in a racecar is a BAD idea... it would crash all the time! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

[boxstr]

Microsoft race car crashes after POPUP changes cars aerodynamics, pushing the car and driver into the barricades.
CCLINMAGNYCOUR

[Quebecer]

They could have X-Box sponsorship though, which would be cool !
They could do nice paint jobs on the cars too.

[URY914]

Ctrl Alt Del

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[Reiche]

If Microsoft made cars:

1. Every time they repainted the lines on the road, you'd have to buy a new car.

2. Occasionally your car would just die on the motorway for no reason, and you'd have to restart it. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this, restart and drive on.

3. Occasionally, executing a manoeuvre would cause your car to stop and fail to restart and you'd have to re-install the engine. For some strange reason, you'd just accept this too.

4. You could only have one person in the car at a time, unless you bought a "Car 95" or a "Car NT". But then you'd have to buy more seats.

5. Amiga would make a car that was powered by the sun, was twice as reliable, five times as fast, twice as easy to drive - but it would only run on five percent of the roads.

6. Macintosh car owners would get expensive Microsoft upgrades to their cars which would make their cars go much slower.

7. The oil, engine, gas and alternator warning lights would be replaced with a single "General Car Fault" warning light.

8. People would get excited about the "new" features in Microsoft cars, forgetting completely that they had been available in other cars for many years.

9. We'd all have to switch to Microsoft gas and all auto fluids but the packaging would be superb.

10. New seats would force everyone to have the same size butt.

11. The airbag system would say "Are you sure?" before going off.

12. If you were involved in a crash, you would have no idea what happened.

13. They wouldn't build their own engines, but form a cartel with their engine suppliers. The latest engine would have 16 cylinders, multi-point fuel injection and 4 turbos, but it would be a side-valve design so you could use Model-T Ford parts on it.

14. There would be an "Engium Pro" with bigger turbos, but it would be slower on most existing roads.

15. Microsoft cars would have a special radio/cassette player which would only be able to listen to Microsoft FM, and play Microsoft Cassettes. Unless of course, you buy the upgrade to use existing stuff.

16. Microsoft would do so well, because even though they don't own any roads, all of the road manufacturers would give away Microsoft cars free, including IBM!

17. If you still ran old versions of car (ie. CarDOS 6.22/CarWIN 3.11), then you would be called old fashioned, but you would be able to drive much faster, and on more roads!

18. If you couldn't afford to buy a new car, then you could just borrow your friends, and then copy it.

19. Whenever you bought a car, you would have to reorganise the ignition for a few days before it worked.

20. You would need to buy an upgrade to run cars on a motorway next to each other.

[GWN7]

21. If you bought a Microsoft car the doors would lock, but by pressing on certain key points compleat strangers could take anything they want out of your car. Upgrades would be available after the thiefs started bragging about what they stole.