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

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. He worked for

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and

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before joining

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. 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

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

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''.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

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. 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.

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

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Villadelprat column on El Pais
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