Team Vodafone set for Holden switch

[Reaper]

888 have also been the Vauxhall factory team in BTCC for many years. Being another GM company it may have played on Ford's decision on funding.

The word is 888 wanted to be a Holden team when they came to Aus but the level 1 licenses at the time were not available.

Reaper.

 

[CANYONERO]

here is a gallery from the announcement
Holden Motorsport > Galleries > Photo Galleries > Photgalleries Display

cheers mate, worked a treat lol.

 

[JUZDVS]

Copied from the NZV8 website:

The decision to swap racing marques was assisted by the lapse of Lowndes’ deal with Ford at the end of the year, and comes after the four-time Bathurst winner and Whincup extended their contracts with Triple Eight until 2012.

 

[Nevyn]

a strange, but clever way of getting Lowndes back into a Holden

 

[S.O.S]

Reading parts of articles, it was saying "they were forced to make lowndes a car this year". Were they considering building both brands under the one roof ?, or considering the move much earlier then this ?.

 

[D-Man]

Yeah Ford withdrew funding for this season because the 888 cars looked to similar to the HRT red and white cars or some rubbish.

Pwned.

nothing to do with it lol that is the public facing for the reasoning.

Ford cut millions in funding their different areas etc in Asia Pacific around Feb 09' and even more globally over the last few months.
i know since we do alot of work for them and we got hit with it - their web advertising budget was cut in half.

has nothing to do with colours, it's all about cost savings for ford, they might not be making enough money from the advertising they are doing so they have dropped it.

 

[JUZDVS]

I think 888 is a pretty good investment in the terms of advertising tho........

 

[v8_stato]

****in bullshit i say.

 

[street1]

wow this should be good

 

[D-Man]

I think 888 is a pretty good investment in the terms of advertising tho........

only as long as people are buying their cars...
not to mention Ford trying not to go bankrupt...having too much money going out and not enough coming in isnt a good situation... cut the funding and save money.