Warren Mosler of Mosler Automotive Seeks Managing Partner
Warren Mosler, founder and owner of Mosler Automotive, manufacturer of the Mosler MT900 road and race cars, has announced that he is seeking to sell a majority interest in Mosler Automotive to a managing partner. “I’m 61 years old, about to start collecting social security, and living too far away here in the US Virgin Islands to properly manage the company on a day to day basis. It’s time for me to find an enthusiast interested being on the Florida site full time and taking the reins as majority owner,” said Warren Mosler, who founded the company in 1985, “With the latest Mosler Photon road car, (winner of the Car and Driver Lightning Lap), and increased production capacity coming online, job One for the new owner/manager will be implementing a global marketing effort.”
Mosler Automotive is based in Riviera Beach in Florida, and includes Mosler Europe in Cambridgeshire in the UK, where Martin Short leads Mosler’s immensely successful international racing efforts. With over 20 teams world wide racing Moslers on circuits all over the world.
“In GT3 racing the Mosler remains very competitive around a race track compared to the latest and greatest entries from competing manufacturers including Ferrari, Porsche, and Lamborghini, despite hundreds of pounds of ballast and other restrictions to slow it down. It looks spectacular and will surely remain competitive for a very long time to come. This last weekend saw a pole and double Mosler GT3 win in Australia where 5 Moslers compete in the Australian GT Series.” said Martin Short, “In other European series, the Moslers are allowed to compete without severe restrictions, and the result is lap times many seconds a lap quicker than GT3 cars and over-all victories for the series. We are as far afield as Japan in the Super GT series.”.
Warren is willing to sell a majority interest in his company to the right buyer for a fraction of the value of the real estate and the inventory. “I want a partner who has the right stuff to keep this company on top” said Mosler.
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Klark Quinn wins again in the Aussie GT series March 2011.
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Mosler win 2 events in Australia
Klark Quinn sweeps the Vodka O Australian GT round at Clipsal 500
KLARK QUINN powered to a second win on the streets of Adelaide in his VIP Petfoods motorsport Mosler today at the Clipsal 500 to take an early lead in the 2011 Vodka O Australian GT Championship.
After tasting success by way of a dramatic victory in the one-hour Murray Walker GT Tourist Trophy race on Friday night, Quinn again led from start-to-finish in today’s 12-lap sprint race to record his second of two wins this weekend.
Mosler Wins Dijon 3 Hours V de V and Britcar win for McKinnerney Mosler
Not sure if this is any kind of a leading indicator, but our order book for the purchase of cars to be raced has gone up from 2 to maybe 8 in the last couple of weeks:
Hi all
Unless you are on Facebook, you probably won’t have realised that we had a terrific weekend in Dijon France, in a series new to us, the V de V Endurance Series.
We have two Moslers racing there, but in the hands of gentleman drivers, and so far they have not had too much success, with team errors at times creeping in, and some cars problems as well.
We elected to take part to try and make a good impression in the series, and to support our customers.
Dan Brown was unable to be with us this weekend, so I advertised on Facebook for a driver, and was contacted by Jon Barnes, who I knew very little of. It turned out that he is a double Caterham Champion, Formula Palmer Audi Champion, and 2008 British GT Champion! In addition, he had raced at Dijon 8 times, and won 5 times, including 2 races in the Palmer Audis.
A deal was set and Dan, supported by his biggest fan, his Mum Christine, joined us for the weekend.
Jon proved his worth over the course of the weekend, setting a stunning pole position in front of the Championship leading Ferrari 430 GT2 of Thierry Perier by 0.9 secs, and setting an awesome pace in the first 2 hours of the race, pulling 60 seconds out on the Ferrari and the following 14 Porsche 996 RSR, although we lost all that advantage in 2 safety car periods.
I jumped in with an hour to go, and an 8 second lead. The car was fantastic, averaging 3 seconds a lap faster than the nearest cars as the Mosler was loving the Michelins, and very kind on them whilst the other cars wore their tyres out. This enabled me to lap the third placed Ferrari and the second placed (by now) Porsche on the last lap, when I also set fastest lap for the car (suprisingly!).
The Mosler didn’t miss a beat, the crew worked perfectly, and the drivers did an excellent job. It was a very nice weekend, in complete contrast to some of the miserable weekends we have had to endure closer to home.
The V de V series organisers absolutely love the Mosler, and cannot wait for us to introduce the ‘Cup’ Mosler. We are working hard on this, but have been delayed as we have many orders to fulfill for new cars, which is very encouraging for difficult economic times.
News has also reached us that the Eclipse team won in the Mckinnerney Mosler at Snetterton at the weekend. More news as we get it.
Translated Race Report
With thanks to Claude!
Regards, Martin Short,
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