A pretty girl
Marussia, is an old Russian word for a pretty girl – but it may be more appropriate to consider the pretty big mess the team finds itself in right now. The F1 team are often described in the media as a ‘Russian team’ yet they have hardly anything about them that is Russian.
CEO Andy Webb admits this but that the plan is to engage engineers from Russia in building Marussia F1 Team cars. Special programs are being developed in Oxford for Russian specialists to train in the UK.
“If we want to be a Russian team we need more of Russia in it: in engineering, marketing, mechanics,” Webb said in the publication ‘Russia’. “My goal is to have at least 10 percent of our staff to be Russian. Now we have only 1 percent.” Webb has also indicated that the team could name a Russian pilot in 2014. Also, there is an idea that there should be a Russian driver in the team.
