As alluded to in the last article released by Franklin, 2020 is going to be a very different year for us. As the 2020 season began to unfold, it was quite difficult to watch. A season going ahead without us in it, selfishly felt quite wrong, we felt as though we'd been left out in the cold and forgotten about. But, it wasn't just as simple as coming back to the fray. All of our sponsors and partners left us during the course of 2019, making it difficult enough to continue fighting throughout the year, let alone continuing on into 2020.
But the decision finally came mere days ago that we would indeed challenge ourselves to compete once again. Unfortunately, in order to do this, we've had to downsize quite significantly and re-locate further south to a smaller premises, The funding from the team will come solely from myself. As you'll see on the car, it is entirely sponsored by the JFPT brand and all of its (very real) subsidiaries. The exception of course being Honda, who have agreed to continue our long-running partnership. We're very excited to continue with our Japanese partners. And so here we have it, a car that we've had to rush to get out within the last week, and hope that we still have the ingenuity within the team to take this prototype from what will almost certainly be a fledgling backmarker, to a respectably performing outfit by the end of the year.
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