A new team?

[ExtremeNinja]

Anyone know why Jenson just posted his on Facebook?

BREAKING NEWS! New Formula 1 team tomorrow? We will see it tomorrow at 12:55 CET.
http://www.dupontf1.com/

 

[ExtremeNinja]

Ah!!! Because tomorrow is April Fools day, of course!!!

 

[Brogan]

No idea but it is April 1 tomorrow...

The domain is apparently owned by Julia Wurz.

 

[The Pits]

It also looks to be an unofficial jb page.

 

[tooncheese]

Pedro has tweeted this,
https://twitter.com/PedrodelaRosa1/status/318353893354508289
which leads to this website.
http://www.dupontf1.com/
It doesn't look like much, but the domain is registered to the wife of Alex Wurz,
This guy here explains it better.
http://redd.it/1bcv5k

A new team or an April Fools joke?

 

[Brogan]

My guess is April Fools.

Button tweeted it earlier.

 

[The Pits]

April fool. If there was to be anything like this, it would have been in the official channels a long time ago, there is a heck of a lead time on these things. The Jenson Button facebook page is not his official page.

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

Strange joke though as it's not particularly funny!

 

[teabagyokel]

We don't know how funny it is, because they haven't done it yet.

 

[The Pits]

Maybe the website will be replaced with a covert link to a Rick Astley song?

 

[teabagyokel]

The Pits - The internet is never gonna give that up.

 

[tooncheese]

Julia Wurz recently wrote a book called SuperEgo about Vincent Dupont, a fictional team principal. Looks more like a joke now.

 

[rufus_mcdufus]

It's going to have to be pretty damn funny now, otherwise I'm going to be very disappointed!

 

[FB]

Which is preferable to the unofficial bj page...

 

[Mephistopheles]

Facebook, Twitter all the rest of them pahh that's nothing new my ex wife invented social networking many years ago she would come home and tell me all about what she had been doing that day whether I wanted to hear about it or not.......

 

[Brogan]

Well I know which one I'd rather see FB, and it isn't Button...

 

[Andrea_Moda_Rules]

considering the main part of the web address. ( The thoughts number 24, circles, and Gordon is entering my head)

Im thinking April fools joke leading to a marketing exercise, and new F1 sponsor?

Edit: scratch that, ive read the thread properly now

 

[Brogan]

At first I thought it was a reference to Red Bull and how none of the claims and accusations stick to them

 

[tooncheese]

I've had a look at the HTML, and for some reason there is an audio file of Nessun Dorma sung by Pavarotti saved on there, that will play just before the countdown ends.

I can't wait until this flu shifts and I find something better to do...

 

[landogeorgelewis1]

Bit early for an Aprils fool yet ain't it?