Good News for the Future of Racing Sims?

There has been suggestions that the recent link up between Williams-BMW and Compaq will be the first of many sponsorships of F1 teams by IT companies, possibly replacing the Tobacco sponsorship money. This might be a good thing for racing sims in the long term as it could be possible that the software manufacturers get access to more information and possible cooperation through a link-up by them or their publishing company with one of the teams. Just a thought. Chris

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McLaren is sponsored by Computer Associates for at least two years now. So Compaq is not the first ... Bart Westra

Yes but they are not a major sponsor, I think they only get a few square inches on the mirrors. Chris

There has already been a big discussion of this on r.a.s.f1.mod. Compaq is certainly not the first title sponsor from the IT world. Some of the examples we came up with were Olivetti (Brabham) and Data General (tyrell). I am sure there are some others. Stephen :> > :> McLaren is sponsored by Computer Associates for at least two years now. So :> Compaq is not the first ... :> :> Bart Westra :> :> :> : Yes but they are not a major sponsor, I think they only get a few square : inches on the mirrors. : Chris

> There has already been a big discussion of this on r.a.s.f1.mod. Compaq > is certainly not the first title sponsor from the IT world. Some of the > examples we came up with were Olivetti (Brabham) and Data General > (tyrell). I am sure there are some others. Wasn't Oracle a sponsor of the 1994 Benetton? I know that the livery in GP2 has Oracle very prominently displayed on the side of the car. Dave Ewing -- ***************************************************** David A. Ewing *****************************************************

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> There has already been a big discussion of this on r.a.s.f1.mod. Compaq > is certainly not the first title sponsor from the IT world. Some of the > examples we came up with were Olivetti (Brabham) and Data General > (tyrell). I am sure there are some others. > Stephen > :> > > :> McLaren is sponsored by Computer Associates for at least two years now.

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> :> Compaq is not the first ... > :> > :> Bart Westra > :> > :> > :> > : Yes but they are not a major sponsor, I think they only get a few square > : inches on the mirrors. > : Chris

in article [email hidden], Chris Bloom at [email hidden] wrote on 26-01-2000 06:23:

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> There has been suggestions that the recent link up between Williams-BMW and > Compaq will be the first of many sponsorships of F1 teams by IT companies, > possibly replacing the Tobacco sponsorship money. > > This might be a good thing for racing sims in the long term as it could be > possible that the software manufacturers get access to more information and > possible cooperation through a link-up by them or their publishing company > with one of the teams. > > Just a thought. > > Chris > > >

Sorry to say, but it will be just a thought. The F1 teams are so paranoia these days. Well the major teams anyway. This information is better guarded as it would be top secret Mossad information. They think if I let just see a drop of it then maybe my enemy is the next time quicker. It's like Cold War times have never left the F1. Maybe there's a chance for all those unemployed spies? Greetings Olaf

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>Steve Ferguson wrote: > >> There has already been a big discussion of this on r.a.s.f1.mod. Compaq >> is certainly not the first title sponsor from the IT world. Some of the >> examples we came up with were Olivetti (Brabham) and Data General >> (tyrell). I am sure there are some others. > >Wasn't Oracle a sponsor of the 1994 Benetton? I know that the livery in

GP2 has >Oracle very prominently displayed on the side of the car. > >Dave Ewing Yup, but they're sponsored by Informix now, have been for a couple of years (one of Oracle's competitors). Doubt we'll see companies specializing in databases and servers come up with a sim, tho :-) Matt/GPLEA