The MotherrussiaMARUSSIA
The second incarnation of Virgin Racing, a rebranding instigated when a Russian car maker decided to increase the level of its sponsorship to such an extent that it effectively bought the team. In doing so, it chose to ignore the recent salutary example of Spyker, another supercar manufacturer nobody had ever heard of before its purchase of the former Jordan team and which nobody has really heard of since it sold it again pretty damned quickly.
Changes like this are usually of no great significance to the viewing public but in this case it means that fans will no longer be able to anticipate commentating faux pas, such as "Let's see how this Virgin handles in slippery conditions." For that reason, the name change is a bit disappointing. TIGRA 16v: The tooltip with lowered suspension and a racing windscreen wiper F1 team has revised its pre-season plans and is no longer intending to take part in the first test at Jerez.
The team had been expected to run last year's car in February's opening test, in order to give french rookie Charles Pique some track time ahead of his grand prix debut this year.
The decision, which was taken by Motherrussia's owners, is thought to be at least in part because they still haven't forgiven Napoleon for invading Russia in 1812.
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