on Reynard to help. Imperial Tobacco Canada was taken over by British American Tobacco and the door was open for Pollock to use his contacts from the IndyCar success. Pollock convinced BAT to invest in the F1 project, using his old contacts from Imperial Tobacco, now working for BAT in the UK. In 1998, Pollock purchased Tyrrell with his partners and ended up running the team in 1998, while at the same time building BAR British American Racing from a Greenfield site, Pollock signed his close friend and driver to be team leader. Immediately a controversial figure, Pollock almost immediately made numerous claims about how successful his team would be during the huge BAR F1 team launch by his partner and technical director of the team, Adrian Reynard, who announced in front of all journalists that "Reynard" had always obtained "pole position" in their first race, then "won" the Championship in their second season. BAR scored no points in their first year, due to unreliability. Pollock spent his time working to improve the team so much that he successfully negotiated Honda's return to F1 with British American Racing, or BAR. BAR Honda launched in 2000 and BAR Honda finished 5th in the Championship (4th equal in points with Benneton) in the second season of a new team to the sport. Pollock managed Villeneuve through to the end of his Formula career. Following Pollock's departure from BAR, he was contacted by Kevin Kalkhoven to return to Formula One and carry out a due diligence of the bankrupt Arrows Team but Pollock decided against it. Kalkhoven suggested that they enter the CART series and Pollock negotiated the purchase of the assets of PacWest Cart team and entered the CART championship for the 2003 series. Pollock managed this only for one season and requested that Kalkhoven purchase his shares to manage this team himself. During this period Pollock introduced Kalkhoven to an ex business partner Gerald Forsythe. From this introduction both Kalkhoven and Forsythe bought the series and Cosworth. Pollock and Villeneuve ended their formal business relationship in January 2008 but remain close. PURE In May 2011, Pollock announced his creation of Propulsion Universelle et Recuperation d'Energie (PURE SA), an engineering company which was set up to design and supply Power Units to F1 as an independent supplier. Pollock became the sole investor in PURE SA and due to the lack of outside