DuPont F1?

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Nando
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"Il Phenomeno" - The one they fear the most!

"2% of the world's population own 50% of the world's wealth."

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Nando wrote:http://www.dupontf1.com/


wtf?
Very interesting indeed! Low nose car under the veil, I'm tempted to say McLaren. But McLaren has had a long relationship with Akzo Nobel.

Maybe Lotus?

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It's the teaser image from the MP4-27, reversed and colorized. I'm gonna say it's some fan something or other. Too unprofessional to be anything related to F1, especially McLaren.

Unless of course StephanF1 has been resurrected. An easter miracle!

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dupontf1.com

Registrant:
Wurz, Julia

ATTN DUPONTF1.COM
care of Network Solutions
PO Box 459
Drums, PA 18222
US

Nando
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Alex Wurz wife?
Lol things got even more confusing now ;)
"Il Phenomeno" - The one they fear the most!

"2% of the world's population own 50% of the world's wealth."

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Well, Wurz did try to start his own team once. Frankly, I think all new F1 teams should be launched on April 1.

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Why should they be located in US?
What racing series could that be for?
Definitely not F1, that is for sure.

beardRage
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So is this real, or something to do with the book? I smell shenanigans of the 4-1 kind...
The liberator who destroyed my property has realigned my perception.

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mep wrote:Why should they be located in US?
What racing series could that be for?
Definitely not F1, that is for sure.
That's the address of Network Solutions, not the owner.

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If you are doing first april joke, at least it should be done on first april :roll:
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april fools

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Neno wrote:If you doing first april joke, at least it should be done on first april :roll:
To be fair, the count down ends on april the first :P

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beardRage wrote:..or something to do with the book?
Had to look that up. Mystery solved - just an attempt at viral marketing...
SuperEgo by Julia Wurz
Price: $0.99 USD. 113040 words. Published on March 12, 2013. Fiction.
Stylish, successful, and king of the soundbite, Vincent Dupont is Formula 1’s team boss extraordinaire. For Kate Ellison, landing the job as press officer for a top F1 team is career gold. But in a world of colossal egos, Machiavellian politics, and a well-informed and omnipresent media, is Vincent's cold-blooded approach her only recourse?
For those who don't know, Julia Wurz was the press officer for Benetton and Alex Wurz tried to start an F1 team that was funded by SuperFund. So this is I guess a fictionalized account of that with her as the heroine. Has anyone read it? Is DuPont supposed to be Flavio?
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Frustratingly, I almost managed to get the reveal to happen, but they haven't uploaded the critical URL containing the finish() function... Bastards!

Nando
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Someone dug some more,
ENHANCE!!

Domain name : dupontf1.com

Registrant: Wurz, Julia. care of Network Solutions PO Box 459 Drums, PA. US 18222

Phone number 570-708-8780

Database last updated on 31-Mar-2013 09:37:27 EDT. (so updated before april fools day? Fishy)

(All other info cross checked with Pedro's official site, nothing matches so he didn't come up with this)

Checking the page source/programming, it is programmed to play a certain audio snippet during a particular time. Perhaps music when the timer runs out. Maybe as the timer gets to 2 minutes there will be audio and another timer.
FURTHER ENHANCE

Googling different info brings up this person works for "Rocket Communications"/ Googling rocket communications f1 and adding more terms brings up this lady.
ENHANCING COMPLETE

Julia Wurz.

Twitter : [1] https://twitter.com/juliawurz

"motorsport wife, PR, rep'd by Juliet Mushens at The Agency Group, Monaco" Also her name is on this book [2] Link

Turns out this is some type of promotion PR agency based around Monaco when investigating futher results. [3] Link

Maybe a fashion based Formula 1 agency in Monaco.
Intrigued Enhance!

But who is this Miss. Juliet Mushens and where is her Romeo.

[4] Interview with Juliet Mushens

Oh so these are just agency people.
Get back on track enhance

Alexander Wurz is the husband of Julia Wurz.

[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Wurz

Alexander Wurz (born 15 February 1974 in Waidhofen an der Thaya, Lower Austria) is an Austrian racing driver, driver training expert and businessman. He competed in Formula One from 1997 until 2007, and is also a two-time winner of the Le Mans 24 Hours.

Teams : Benetton, McLaren, Williams

Well would you look at that.

Okay so the people involved with this joke/potentially real team is an ex-F1 Driver/businessman, his wife and her agency. It is also to be noted that Wurz in the past has been linked to trying to save F1 teams such as HRT (which was denied). Also if a US based team is started, he might be one of the people working in it which has been rumored before.

The likelihood of this being true would normally be 25% however tomorrow is April fools days so it drops down to 10% real and 90% fake.

Good day gentleman.
"Il Phenomeno" - The one they fear the most!

"2% of the world's population own 50% of the world's wealth."