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Jean-Pierre Van Rossem

Started by T54 , Jan 09 2004 23:41

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#51 Arjan de Roos

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Posted 02 April 2006 - 11:52

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Jean-Pierre Van Rossem is leaving the slot car racing scene due to health reasons (he suffers from diabetes).

His website http://www.imca-slotracing.com will be closed down on 31 March.

Today it is...? A nice day to still enjoy this website too.

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#52 Vitesse2

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Posted 14 December 2018 - 11:25

Jean-Pierre Van Rossem - former sponsor of Onyx via his Moneytron Ponzi scheme.

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#53 Richard Jenkins

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Posted 14 December 2018 - 11:32

That's one way to get out of serving yet another jail term....

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#54 john aston

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 06:47

Vitesse2, on 14 Dec 2018 - 11:25, said:

Jean-Pierre Van Rossem - former sponsor of Onyx via his Moneytron Ponzi scheme.

Only in the 'Greed is Good ' 80s would anybody have been sufficiently crass to have named an F1 team Moneytron

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#55 2F-001

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Posted 16 December 2018 - 08:41

Interesting that he passed off his scheme as a secret algorithmically-driven computer. Very modern. Such things are now, of course, the norm.

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#56 Doug Nye

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Posted 17 December 2018 - 23:10

Van Rossem, eh? Pretty much as unsavoury as he looked when encountered in person, as I well recall...

It has always amazed me how willingly the racing world will embrace simply anyone dripping money...just in case that individual might go somewhere else before it runs out, or before he inevitably has his collar felt by the authorities...

Maybe those who care relatively little for money can usually spot a wrong 'un long before those who do.

DCN

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#57 john aston

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Posted 19 December 2018 - 07:27

Ain't that the truth (as the locals don't say in Thirsk) . But it isn't the people the sport embraces for their money that worry me half as much as the shady regimes F1 courts for its thirty pieces of silver. Like that bastion of democracy and justice which hosted the last Grand Prix ....

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#58 BRG

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Posted 20 December 2018 - 19:18

Doug Nye, on 17 Dec 2018 - 23:10, said:

Maybe those who care relatively little for money can usually spot a wrong 'un long before those who do.

And as one bearded conman shuffles off this mortal coil, we have another (allegedly) in Mr Storrey of Rich Energy who is sponsoring Haas in F1 next year despite his company apparently having virtually no money or assets, or indeed much product for sale. Plus ca change