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V8: Marshall cuts ties with IntaRacing
Marcus Marshall has announced that he is severing ties with IntaRacing and searching for a new drive in the upcoming endurance races.
The V8 Supercar Championship team has been suffering problems almost since its inception at the beginning of the season when main sponsor Access Cash, a company also owned by team owner Daniel Tzvetkoff, withdrew its backing.
After running without sponsorship logos at Winton in May, new sponsors Sherrin Rentals supported the squad for the events in Tasmania and Darwin and were in talks to buy the team until negotiations collapsed.
The team was fined $150,000 for not participating in the Townsville event in July and also failed to appear at the last round at Sandown.
Marshall released the following statement to announce his departure from the team.
“Since October last year, I have worked alongside the owner of Team IntaRacing, Daniel Tzvetkoff, to establish the team, often going beyond the realms of what is normally expected for a driver helping to secure staff, equipment, infrastructure and more recently potential sponsors and buyers for the team after the collapse of Access Cash and its parent company, Intabill,” he said.
“After months of negotiations and sleepless nights unfortunately the day has come for me to cut all ties with the team.
“Despite the closure of the workshop, I am proud to say that I personally could not have done anything more to keep the team going.
“We are at the half way point in the season and most of the endurance seats are filled so it is going to be very hard for me to stay in the sport,” he said.
“My motto is ‘never give up’ and I feel I still have a lot to give to motor racing and V8 Supercars.
“Overall, I can say it’s been an eye opening and extremely difficult experience for me but I have learnt a huge amount about people and life including what it’s like to drive a great V8 Supercar with a great team.
“I am sad to sever ties with Team IntaRacing but as hard as we tried there was just no light at the end of the tunnel and it was a situation that had to come to an end one way or another.”
Marshall also admitted he was proud of the results achieved despite the off track problems this season.
“In six races with no engineer, just myself engineering the car, we had a top nine finish, setting a new lap record in the process. Who knows what we could have achieved over a three year period?
“I truly believe we could have won races as we had great equipment and a great team to get the job done.”
“Contrary to what it may have looked like from the outside, we were not a big team or very well funded, however in a short amount of time Team IntaRacing achieved what some other teams have been trying to do for years.
“I would also like to say a huge thank you to Team IntaRacing Manager, Keith Evers who has worked alongside me and also done everything in his power and more to keep the dream alive.”
Watch full coverage of every V8 Supercar race on Motors TV in 2009.
Andy Wilkinson
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