In all honesty I am getting sick of the former Jordan team being sold every year. I mean Eddie ran his team from 1991 till 2004, when he sold it to the Midland Group in early 2005 for $60 million dollars. They ran the team for one year as Jordan and then renamed the team Midland F1 Racing in 2006. In September of 2006 Midland sold the team to Spyker for $106 million dollars and in September 2007, Spyker has sold out to Vijay Mallya and Michiel Mol for $145 million.
I understand that the value continually increases as there is no more room on the grid for new teams... but still. Can't someone just buy the team and be content with the fact that they will probably be perennial back markers? It's like these people who buy the teams expect the cars to be competitive after a season or two and then when they aren't winning world championships decide to take up so and so's offer to buy the team for a considerable sum more than they paid for it... or they treat the team purely as a shrewed business investment and on top of it all have the luxury of also being able to say "Yeah, I owned an F1 team for about 9 months once. It was pretty cool I guess"
Really, I would just like some stability and for the name of the former Jordan team to stay the same thing for more than 11 months. Maybe the FIA should mandate that the team permanently be called "The The Team Formerly Known As Jordan Grandrix" Sure it's long, but everybody would end up calling it Jordan and all would be well.
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