f1 on players run...new one possibly?

[mini magic]

East coast, west coast or middle?





Chris

[Peloton25]

Closer to me than to you.

>8^)
ER

[MalkaJB]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Closer to me than to you.

>8^)
ER

Sweet. How close are we talking here? Very, I hope. And why does that guy look so familiar?!

This is starting to bug me...

[Peloton25]

I don't know why he looks familiar to you, but remember the news comes on at 11:00pm. Be sure to tune in.

>8^)
ER

[Peloton25]

That time already?

The owner's name is John Stanton of Seattle, WA. There's a lot to read about Mr Stanton on the web as he's been a powerful and important figure in the developing wireless communications industry in the USA and abroad for several decades. He's a self-made billionaire who seems to be highly respected in his industry. Here's one of the better articles on his career and some of his successes:

http://www.bizjournals.com/portland/...18/focus6.html

Incidentally, he's pictured at Starbucks in front of his laptop in conjunction with his role as Chairman of T-Mobile USA, who most will know have struck a deal with Starbucks to provide wireless hotspots at all of their locations. I thought someone might be able to piece something together using that image. While it was a little vague, I thought it was more intriguing than a simple headshot would have been.

My source this time was one of those shot-in-the-dark notes sent out to a person I'm familiar with, but who I've never spoken to before. I thought they might know the answer and it paid off for the most part as they were able to provide the owner's first name, where he lived and a comment that he was the founder of Cingular Wireless which turns out not to be the case. This person also mentioned that #011 is registered in Oregon although the car is kept in Seattle most of the time. It turns out that Cingular is a company Stanton has done business with, but never worked directly for based on my reading this afternoon.

While it wasn't all the right answers handed to me on a platter, there was still enough detail to allow me to put the pieces together and fill in the blanks. Then the photos I found of Stanton matched up well with the gentleman standing by the car in Aspen.

That's how it's done folks.

>8^)
ER

[ArchangelGTR]

You're such the sleuth.

Next time try and find out how we can become billionaires. LOL

[mini magic]

I looked up "wireless Aspen" in the hopes of finding him. Wrong city and state though

[Peloton25]

Hold the phone!

After all that - I may actually end up being wrong. That's what I get for being cocky.

Time to do more digging it seems...

>8^)
ER

[bucciali]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

That's how it's done folks.

>8^)
ER

[Peloton25]

Except when you read my last reply you might want to take that back.

I could still be right, but I may also be wrong. Slightly better chance that I'm wrong at this point I think. Still close, but that doesn't really count in this game.

>8^)
ER

[Noddy]

Originally Posted by mini magic

I looked up "wireless Aspen" in the hopes of finding him. Wrong city and state though

I had come to the same conclusion about the identity - unfortunately it was 20 minutes after the answer was posted - although I didn't know that at the time!

[Peloton25]

Another individual suggested this morning that the owner of #011 might be a man named John McCaw.

Interestingly, they share the same name, the same location of Seattle and also the same industry which is wireless communications. Besides the new tip I received this morning, there are two things about McCaw that make him a more likely candidate for ownership of #011. The first is that he owns a ranch in Medford, OR which ties in with the Oregon reg plate that #011 supposedly wears. The other is that he's definitely more involved in the car collecting world, with several classic Ferraris, a Ford GT-40 and even an old McLaren Can-Am car having passed through his hands.

Strangely I still think that the gentlemen in the photo behind #011 could be Stanton, and maybe it is. He could have been there in another car or maybe if the F1 is indeed McCaw's he could have let Stanton borrow it. The two have worked closely together in the past with Stanton serving as CEO of McCaw wireless working with John's brother Craig, and Stanton also purchased a stake in the Seattle Mariners baseball team from John McCaw at one point.

While I am leaning towards certainty that Mr McCaw is the real owner of #011, I'm going to change the American Fleet listing to simply "John" for now until I can settle this without any speculation involved.

>8^)
ER

[BMW.WilliamsF1Team]

Roy took some nice pics, but I haven't asked him for any hi-res. http://ferrarichat.com/forum/showthread.php?t=109685

Edit: Maybe Roy knows who the owner is, too, and what the number 8 means on the car.

[Peloton25]

Roy might know a thing or two. I believe all the cars that participated had those numbers on the side, as well as lots of other stickers. In the first shot of #011 in the slideshow you'll see it has no stickers at all.

If he's willing to share the F1 pics in hires that would be awesome. There are two or three that are really great!

>8^)
ER

[Noddy]

Originally Posted by Peloton25

Another individual suggested this morning that the owner of #011 might be a man named John McCaw.

Interestingly, they share the same name, the same location of Seattle and also the same industry which is wireless communications. Besides the new tip I received this morning, there are two things about McCaw that make him a more likely candidate for ownership of #011. The first is that he owns a ranch in Medford, OR which ties in with the Oregon reg plate that #011 supposedly wears. The other is that he's definitely more involved in the car collecting world, with several classic Ferraris, a Ford GT-40 and even an old McLaren Can-Am car having passed through his hands.

Lots of involvement with racing in the family too with brother Bruce having owned the PacWest CART team back in the early 90s plus racing some vintage McLaren Can-Am cars and brother Craig backing an America's Cup team.