Red Bull not paying PKV Racing a dime

UPDATE This rumor is downgraded to 'false' today. We are told that Red Bull does not allow their logos on any website but their own and that is the reason Red Bull is not listed as a sponsor of the PKV team on their website. We apologize to the team that this inaccurate 'rumor' was published without a prior verification from the team. It was fed to us by someone who tried to tell us that the sponsorship was just a tradeoff for the Red Bull Toro Rosso F1 team cancelling their Cosworth engine contract early. The person also made the case that the Forsythe team got its Red Bull sponsorship for their Atlantic team the same way because Gerald Forsythe owns Cosworth along with Kevin Kalkhoven. We were told it was just a shuffling of monies from F1 to Champ Car in return for Red Bull getting a release from Cosworth so they could use a competing engine earlier – none of which is true.

04/11/07 Although Red Bull appears prominently on the PKV Racing car of Neel Jani, it appears the team is getting no money out of the deal because if they did they would be listed on their website along with their other sponsors.