marty allow me to explain things to you ...things that others here either know very well or are thinking but unwilling to say...allow me to point out the elephant in the room....its simple .... in famous words "its the economy stupid" ( and im not calling you stupid thats just a quote)
im sure you know whats going on around the world globally everyone, everything , every country, every company is in a lot of trouble im sure you know whats going on in F1 with entire races being knocked off the calendar. Historic races gone in a blink. So now given all that do you think A1 Team Pakistan and A1 GP the entire series will be immune to that?
First of all lets look at A1 Team Pakistan we all know that it has been artificially yet generously supported by the management of A1 GP that is something which all Pakistanis should be grateful for; not to the pervious seatholder of the team or the new "khancheema" seatholders but to A1 GP itself and the A1 GP management who were actually funding the team for the past 3 years.
Now this year it seems that "maybe" and I stress the word "maybe" Adam khan and company have tried and are still trying to acquire the franchsie by coming up with the majority of the funding required to run a team in A1 GP. It seems to me that the problem is most likely nothing esle but financial all else is a simple spin or cover while the financial aspects are sorted.
Most likely the new seatholders probably acquired the franchise by paying a minute fraction of the total annual amount needed to acquire the franchise. This tiny downpayment was most likely made as a show of committment and to provide an assurance to the A1 GP managment by the khancheema group that they will come up with the remainder of the money and instill confidence about making the rest of the annual required payment within a stipulated time frame and also to obviously take over the team.
Now whats happend is that given the current economic scenario and certain other characterisitcs of the new seatholders (they have previously also tried a similar move of trying to take over the team and made assurances and tall claims and not been able to come through), in all likelihood the new seatholders have not been able to come up with the rest of the money required to actually get the new chassis and actually be allowed to race in the series.
Thus until they have made all the complete payments A1 Team Pakistan will not be allowed to race. Hence the rest is all eye wash it all boils down to money and right now aftre making tall claims, they just dont have the money to run a team. Pure and simple. And to be perfectly honest its going to be very very tough for A1 Team Pakistan to exist as money will be scant.
Think about it do you really think that somebody will have paid anywhere between US $ 2 - 4 million in these times and then not race in the first 2 races of such an importan season?!!! Does it make sense to you that just because the seat wasnt 'slightly" correct for Adam Khan that there was no way to fix the problem in all this time???? All this money, this high stakes game, such a high profile series with high tech mechanics and engineers and they cant fix a simple seat issue? come on give us a break we may not be in the inner sanctum of A1 Team Pak or A1 GP but we fans are not as stupid , illiterate and gullible regardless of what ppl may or may not have seens and heard on Skynews and Fox News.
Do you really think any real driver with drive , amibiiton and desire and passion will want to sit out and watch from the sidelines especially after a chassis has been given to him and he has test driven that chassis and spent all this money to get the franchise?
so its either of these things:
1--A1 GP management is really incompetent and disorganized that they cant provide a proper chassis. (as claimed by the new setholders)
2-- The mechanics and engineers are really incompetent as they cant move the seat back, push the pedals up a bit and create some more room (also as claimed by the new seatholders)
3-- There is nothing really wrong with the car but Adam khan is a whiner and afraid to race.
4-- Adam Khan and company do not have the money to take over the team and hence A1 GP is not allowing them to race until they pay up 100%.
My vote is to reason number 4. U make up ur own mind.