Joan Villadelprat (born 15 November 1955) is the principal of the Spanish race team

Epsilon Euskadi EPIC Racing (Euskadi Phil Imanol Claudio Racing) was a racing team from Spain. The team's headquarters were located in Vitoria ( Alava). It was the second major motorsport team from the Basque Country, (Euskadi). Epsilon Euskadi was the bigg ...

. He worked for

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and

Tyrrell Racing The Tyrrell Racing Organisation was an auto racing team and Formula One constructor founded by Ken Tyrrell (1924–2001) which started racing in 1958 and started building its own cars in 1970. The team experienced its greatest success in the e ...

before joining

Benetton Formula Benetton Formula Ltd., commonly referred to simply as Benetton, was a Formula One constructor that participated from to . The team was owned by the Benetton family who run a worldwide chain of clothing stores of the same name. In 2000, the te ...

. He was formerly Operations Director and Team Manager at

until 1999, he then worked for

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as managing director. After the closure of Prost Grand Prix he left Formula 1.

Prost Grand Prix

In November 2000,

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employed Joan Villadelprat as his managing director.

Epsilon Euskadi

Villadelprat was instrumental in Epsilon Euskadi's failed attempted entry into the 2010

Formula 1 Formula One (also known as Formula 1 or F1) is the highest class of international racing for open-wheel single-seater formula racing cars sanctioned by the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA). The World Drivers' Championship, ...

season. Joan Villadelprat writes F1 articles for Spanish newspaper ''

El País ''El País'' (; ) is a Spanish-language daily newspaper in Spain. ''El País'' is based in the capital city of Madrid and it is owned by the Spanish media conglomerate PRISA. It is the second most circulated daily newspaper in Spain . ''El Pa ...

''.Villadelprat column on El Pais
''El Pais''. Retrieved on 25 April 2012.

Epsilon scandal and Supreme Court sentence

Epsilon Euskadi ee1 founder Joan Villadelprat and Mark Phillip Payne were taken to court in Vitoria (Spain) under allegations of corruption and negligent management of public funding granted by the Basque Country government when Juan Jose Ibarratxe was president. Juan Jose Ibarretxe was president elected of the

Basque Nationalist Party The Basque Nationalist Party (, EAJ ; es, Partido Nacionalista Vasco, PNV; french: Parti Nationaliste Basque, PNB; EAJ-PNV), officially Basque National Party in English,) was rejected by party members in November 2011. Nonetheless, the party did ...

. In June 2016, the Spanish Civil Supreme Court gave Villadepprat a guilty sentence and demanded Villadelprat pay a fine of 899.263 Euros for his responsibility in the bankruptcy of the Firm Epsilon, a Formula 1 aspirations firm. Joan, who received public funding from the Basque Country Government, was also found guilty by the Spanish Trading Court and banned for three years from managing third parties goods or funds.

External links

El sueño automovilístico que el PNV diseñó hace unos pocos años para Álava ha terminado en el banquillo de los acusados.

Grandprix.com
Villadelprat column on El Pais

References

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