kostas22 wrote:Popi_Larrauri wrote:OK, no news yet. But to me they are almost defunct by now. If they can't keep the pace of chassis development at february (I mean, reading this news now, not in november or december), their officially dead.
The question is - does going into liquidation count as a violation of contract with the FIA? It's the only way they can fall off the entry list for sure.
I would hazard a guess that it would work out this way. If Campos were to go into liquidation, then the company effectively ceases to be. At that point, if they no longer exist, then any binding contractual agreement between them and the FIA, by extension, must also cease to exist, since one of the parties to the agreement no longer exists and cannot fulfill their terms. As a result, I would presume that they would have to be withdrawn from the official entry list.
I do wish, however, that Campos does us all a favour and wind the company up sooner rather then later, because it is doing nobody any good for anybody for them to be in the same state as Schodinger's cat.
But equally, even if Campos (and, equally, USF1, where the vultures are seemingly also circling overhead) fail to make it, I doubt that Stefan would be allowed to take part. For a start, it would violate all of the FIA's regulations regarding entry rights, but there would also be the issue of whether Stefan could keep his team going as well (after all, whilst he may be getting support from the Serbian government, this is the same Serbian government which is having to implement an austerity program drawn up by the IMF in order to safeguard it's loans from the IMF - and I can't imagine that the IMF would be pleased to see money being spent on such an extravagantly wasteful sport). Whilst Stefan may be stubborn, he is an amateur in that respect compared to the FIA.
Outstanding. 
