American-based Formula One team shelved for 2010
The dream of Ken Anderson and Speed TV commentator Peter Windsor to enter a start-up American-based team in Formula One this year has hit the skids.
The FIA, which governs F1 racing, announced that USF1 will not race in 2010 and that the team’s slot on the grid will not be filled by any other team.
There is apparently a possibility that the team could be allowed back in 2011, but don’t count on it. The operation, which had prematurely announced in January that it would test its car at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham, foundered for lack of money, despite having YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley on board as an investor.
The team is based in Charlotte, which makes sense for a NASCAR team but little sense for a team competing in a series that mostly races in Europe and Asia. And instead of capitalizing on their American ties by hiring an American driver, they signed a driver from Argentina.
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Posted: March 4th, 2010 under BARBER MOTORSPORTS NEWS.
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