F1 USA Team to join in 2010?

[metalhead188]

well the new rumor out there is that AJ Allmendinger is in negotiations to be a driver since he only has a 8 race deal in NASCAR... so there's one driver who can perform and Andretti at one time was linked to a possible seat at Honda so that's not a far stretch either

[HandoZiZle]

Press confrence is tomorrow on Speed.

[e10rice]

c**p my internet connection at work sucks so i cant even load the Speeds web page!!!! Ah why did they have this press confrence in the middle of a working day!!!!!

[iceman1]

A live stream for speed channel :

http://www.justin.tv/badbeat4

[phil1993]

53 minutes...

[donald29]

LOL the USF1 site has a countdown timer on it, it keeps getting to 0 the resetting to 1 hour to go :P This team is failing already.

Also, an image of their car has been leaked...

[phil1993]

American team planning 2010 championship entry

Plans have been officially announced for a new, American Formula One team, who hope to be on the grid for the start of the 2010 season. The project, led by F1 veterans Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson, will be based in Charlotte, North Carolina, with European satellite facilities likely to be located in Spain.

The team, currently known as simply USF1, say their mission is ‘to prove that American technology, American drivers and the American competitive spirit can compete and win on the F1 global stage’.

Though the team has yet to make any firm decisions on drivers or engine supply, they plan to take full advantage of Formula One racing’s latest cost-cutting measures, which they believe will help them run a competitive, lean and highly efficient operation.

The recent ban on in-season testing, plus the high number of Grands Prix outside Europe, also means that Windsor and Anderson are not expecting the team’s unusual location to present any major logistical problems.

British-born Windsor, a former Williams team manager and best known of late as a Formula One commentator on US television, will take on the position of team principal, while American engineer Anderson, recently responsible for the highly-acclaimed Windshear wind tunnel facility in North Carolina, will reprise the technical director role he previously held with the Ligier Formula One team.

[ric.rios]

From code of USF1 site:
Welcome to USF1.com - welcome to your behind-the-scenes access to the newest and most ground-breaking team on the F1 block.

Join us as USF1 evolves from being just a name and a burning ambition into the first made-in-America F1 car since Dan Gurney's Eagle first flew from Santa Ana, California; share the selection process as we search for the next American F1 World Champion; enjoy the best of US technology as we stream on line the design and build process of the USF1 team and chassis. And, above all, give us your thoughts and ideas as the team begins to grow: because USF1 is for all of you out there who love F1, who love the idea of proving that American racing technology is on par to compete at the highest levels of the sport globally. And it is for those of you who, like us, just have a yearning to pit one human being against another in exotic pieces of machinery.

We hope you enjoy this still-young story - and we hope you will be with us for many years to come.

[iceman1]

Good news, Force India were feeling lonely at the back

[phil1993]

USF1 looking for experienced drivers

Spoiler:

By Steven English and Diego Mejia Wednesday, February 25th 2009, 13:28 GMT


The new USF1 team are likely to target an experienced Formula One driver to lead their line-up in the first season in 2010, according to sporting director Peter Windsor.

USF1's long-term goal is to be a national team running two American drivers, but Windsor says it could be better for the team to use a driver with F1 experience to help them progress in the first season or two.

"In year one, certainly there is an argument for having an experienced F1 driver in the car," said Windsor. "We're going to need to get all the information we can as quickly as possible, particularly in an era when they're cutting right back on the amount of testing you can do. There's definitley and argument for that, and then maybe having a young American in the other car.

"But actually finding the right experienced driver to put in the car for those first two years, or maybe just the first year, is not easy if you actually think about. We are going to be a new team on the block and a driver who brings a lot of expereince and a record of success with him could be a difficult driver for us to work with, because his expectations are going to be a lot higher than ours. So it would need to be exactly the right sort of driver with the right sort of temperament."

Windsor added that USF1 will be looking for a driver willing to grow with the team and says he would steer clear of drivers whose expectations would be too high for a new outfit.

"In Rubens Barrichello's case he would be good, because he's known two bad years at Honda and that would be a very useful baseline for our operation. But he's almost unique of the drivers out there who would potentially fill the role of the experienced driver.

"You can't imagine Jenson [Button] in a start-up team, driving at 100 per cent knowing that the best he's going to qualify is 14th - which would be good for us - and finishing maybe 10th on a good day. Jenson would want more than that and it would be very difficult working with somebody like that.

"If you took a big American star from NASCAR, he'd be quite happy not to qualify last and to finish 12th. That would be a great result for him in his first Formula One race, and that would be a great result for us too. We are a new team and we are going to walk before we can run - we will all grow at the same pace."

When asked about IndyCar racer Danica Patrick and NASCAR's Kyle Busch - the two American drivers with the biggest profiles in Europe - Windsor said: "Both of those drivers bring with them a lot of reputation and PR, the question is whether that's the right thing for USF1 in the first or second year.

"What we don't need is a driver coming in, dominating the team and expecting more than the team can give. Equally, we don't want a driver who is going to underperform because he's so inexperienced, so it's a very difficult balance to strike.

"The concept of taking somebody like Danica to Formula One and being successful with her is mind-blowing. And, equally, taking a NASCAR star driver, putting him into F1 and seeing him do well would be just as pleasurable. Both of them would be great people to talk to. I don't know if Kyle has any interest at all in F1, I don't know if Danica has either for that matter, but it would be interesting to see."

USF1 team principal Ken Anderson believes they will be able to produce home-grown star drivers.

"We're a big country and I think it's fair to say that anything we put our mind to, we end up doing pretty well," he said. "We have a big enough pool to do it. If we're taking a flier on a German or Brazilian, why not take a flier on ours.

"The ladder (for young drivers) doesn't really exist in the United States right now, as far as Formula One for sure. Part of our sponsorship will go towards helping kids do that. Max (Mosley) has just started F2 which is brilliant for £195,000 and ridiculously cheap compared to GP2 or F3. What better place to send a kid?

"I grew up in the early 70s in motocross and the Europeans used to come over and kick our butt, then within five years we were holding our own and in 10 years we were world champions."

[metalhead188]

From watching the press conference it WILL be two young american drivers... There is no talks with picking up F1 leftovers for the new team

[megasyxx]

they're also looking for an engine deal.....open for the current teams; bmw,mercedes,ferrari, or nissan.....hopefully, ford.

[ric.rios]

Here in Brazil, all the press talk in name of Barrichello for USF1 in 2010.
And the profile of Barrichello is very interesting to team.

[swca92]

Ford back in F1? There's More chance of Burkina Faso winning the next football world cup than Ford returning to F1.

[HandoZiZle]

The "BIG 3" will not supply the engine for USF1. I know Barichello would love to be back behind the wheels and he's actually a good senior driver to have unlike...lets say Ralf Schumacher haha.