Hello everyone, I'm new here.. I found this forum about 2 days ago (thanks to Gustav from M5board), and I've read lot of the threads on this forum since.
Anyway, the reason I registered is the following (I'm usually a lurker) :
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Originally Posted by Peloton25
It's original owner, at least while the car wore that livery racing in the British GT series was James Munroe, who apparently was jailed for robbing his firm of 2 1/2 million Pounds. Anyone know more about that story, or the history of this car outside of it selling for a ridiculously low price at auction?
>8^)
ER
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I just wanted to comment on the above question:
I saw a documentary on this guy last year on the BBC. He was a financial manager at a big firm (can't remember the name), and was totally in love with the F1. To be able to obtain one, he did the following: He started two bogus companies, and sent invoices from them to his employer. Him being the guy that approved all the invoices, he was able to scam a lot of money in about one or two years. First he bought an F1 roadcar, but as everything seemed to go smoothly, he also bought a GTR. That one he raced during the weekends, and no one at his firm knew about his double-life. But then his firm started checking their records (I thought it was because they were operating at a loss, but can't be sure about it), and caught him.
Hope this helps to fill in some gaps...
Regards,
Gerrit