Top Five Reasons You Shouldn’t Name Your F1 Team Cypher
Yes before you ask there’s a just announced F1 team called Cypher, or to be more specific Cypher Group.
“We have officially submitted our candidature and hope that we will shortly be selected by the FIA as the 13th entry in the 2011 FIA Formula One World Championship” said a Cypher team statement; “We aspire to bring America’s red, white, and blue back into Formula One. ”
The top five reasons, or defintions if you prefer - I suggest you do for the sake of this nonsensical post - you shouldn’t name your F1 team cypher (Brit spelling) or cipher.
5. A cypher is a design combining or interweaving letters or initials; a monogram.
4. It’s a cryptographic system in which units of plain text of regular length, usually letters, are arbitrarily transposed or substituted according to a predetermined code.
3. A cypher is one having no influence or value; a nonentity.
2. A cypher is an Arabic numeral or figure; a number.
And the number one reason you shouldn’t name your F1 team cypher is…… A cypher is the mathematical symbol (0) denoting absence of quantity; zero.
Now I don’t mean to imply this team isn’t a serious about making the F1 grid…
Actually that’s a lie…
Despite the fact they have a website (whoopty-doo so do I) and have been noted by one of the most respected F1 journalists around I’m not biting.
Show me the money as they say.
Websites are cheap, look at this one, race teams aren’t.
Oh God, here we go again……. ZZZZZZZZZZZ
The only difference between this & USGPE is that they are promoting an American driver in the team.
BTW, the fact that Lola & Prodrive did not submit for selection tells you a lot about their attitude to the whole process.
Move along please, nothing to see here.
Hell USF1 started pimping for an America driver, then tossed Summerton under the bus apparently.
And leaves us not forget ART GP packed in in this week after looking at this process.
If ART with all it’s experiance in open wheel says no thanks there’s something seriously stinky about it.
Someone has a bizarre sense of humor! But at least I can buy a tee shirt before they stumble into oblivion, one step better then USF1 ever accomplished.
But my tin foil hat is a’twitchin’, and that’s not a good sign. Maybe this “new” team has something to do with two potential US races, and ART withdrawing their more then qualified name from the new team lottery? Bernie works in mysterious ways!
Like all I’ll believe it when it happens, but I just can’t see the FIA giving another start from nothing team, US or otherwise, an opportunity to embarrass them yet again.
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