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US F1 Team
US F1 Team was a proposed Formula One team that was granted entry to the 2010 season. However, the team stopped work on its car and did not compete in 2010. It informed the FIA that it was not in a position to race and was removed from the official entry list.
The team was fronted by former Haas CNC Racing technical director Ken Anderson and journalist (and former Williams and Ferrari manager) Peter Windsor. US F1 was aiming to be the only F1 team based outside Europe, with their factory located in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was part of Anderson and Windsor's plan to promote American drivers and technology, as was their initial aim to run two American drivers in the 2010 season.
On February 24, 2009, Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson appeared on the American cable television network Speed Channel to announce their intent to file an entry of a new Formula 1 team named US F1 for the 2010 Formula One World Championship.
On June 12, 2009, Team US F1 was granted entry to the 2010 Formula One World Championship. Due to the political controversy between the FIA and FOTA during the summer of 2009, US F1 was unable to sign the Concorde Agreement until July 29, 2009. This caused some delays in the planned schedule for production with certain budget caps and technical regulations still under debate at that time that were dropped in the final agreement.
Team US F1 set up a base of operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a building that at one time housed Joe Gibbs Racing's NASCAR operations. The team announced its plans for a secondary base at Motorland Aragón in Spain to allow simplicity of operations during the European portion of the calendar without transport of materials back to North Carolina.
On December 22, 2009, F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone was one of several to express doubts about the team making it to the grid for 2010. Windsor denied these rumors and on the same day unveiled a completed team website. Over the Christmas holiday, Windsor's blog stated that the development team had only taken two days off "when European-based teams might break for a few weeks" and that he would not allow "16 valuable days lost in the too-short life of the F1 European winter" to be wasted.
Originally the team planned on running two American drivers. Windsor later altered that goal, stating that the team might employ more experienced, non-American drivers in their first season to help speed up future development. The team also declined to use so-called "pay drivers". On November 21, 2009, Argentine driver José María López announced that he had a conditional deal with the US F1 team to drive in the 2010 season, providing he secured an $8 million sponsorship package. On January 23, 2010, it was reported that López had completed a deal with US F1 to drive in the 2010 season, and on January 25, 2010, it was officially announced that he would drive for the team. Windsor said that "securing 'Pechito' López for our debut season has been a goal of ours for a long time" in an official release on the team website. At the same time the team signed the former Honda test driver James Rossiter, although this was never officially confirmed. Rossiter was then nearly signed by KV Racing Technology to race in the IndyCar Series.
The team's chassis, to be known as the US F1 Type 1, was to utilize the Cosworth CA2010 engine. In September, the first images of the Type 1 appeared in an interview on SpeedTV's Windtunnel program. A blog entry by senior engineer Scott Bennett revealed that the car would not simply be a design clone of current cars, but would be very innovative in development. US F1 was to have been the only new team in 2010 to feature their own gearbox, produced by EMCO Gears, Inc.
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US F1 Team
US F1 Team was a proposed Formula One team that was granted entry to the 2010 season. However, the team stopped work on its car and did not compete in 2010. It informed the FIA that it was not in a position to race and was removed from the official entry list.
The team was fronted by former Haas CNC Racing technical director Ken Anderson and journalist (and former Williams and Ferrari manager) Peter Windsor. US F1 was aiming to be the only F1 team based outside Europe, with their factory located in Charlotte, North Carolina. This was part of Anderson and Windsor's plan to promote American drivers and technology, as was their initial aim to run two American drivers in the 2010 season.
On February 24, 2009, Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson appeared on the American cable television network Speed Channel to announce their intent to file an entry of a new Formula 1 team named US F1 for the 2010 Formula One World Championship.
On June 12, 2009, Team US F1 was granted entry to the 2010 Formula One World Championship. Due to the political controversy between the FIA and FOTA during the summer of 2009, US F1 was unable to sign the Concorde Agreement until July 29, 2009. This caused some delays in the planned schedule for production with certain budget caps and technical regulations still under debate at that time that were dropped in the final agreement.
Team US F1 set up a base of operations in Charlotte, North Carolina, in a building that at one time housed Joe Gibbs Racing's NASCAR operations. The team announced its plans for a secondary base at Motorland Aragón in Spain to allow simplicity of operations during the European portion of the calendar without transport of materials back to North Carolina.
On December 22, 2009, F1 CEO Bernie Ecclestone was one of several to express doubts about the team making it to the grid for 2010. Windsor denied these rumors and on the same day unveiled a completed team website. Over the Christmas holiday, Windsor's blog stated that the development team had only taken two days off "when European-based teams might break for a few weeks" and that he would not allow "16 valuable days lost in the too-short life of the F1 European winter" to be wasted.
Originally the team planned on running two American drivers. Windsor later altered that goal, stating that the team might employ more experienced, non-American drivers in their first season to help speed up future development. The team also declined to use so-called "pay drivers". On November 21, 2009, Argentine driver José María López announced that he had a conditional deal with the US F1 team to drive in the 2010 season, providing he secured an $8 million sponsorship package. On January 23, 2010, it was reported that López had completed a deal with US F1 to drive in the 2010 season, and on January 25, 2010, it was officially announced that he would drive for the team. Windsor said that "securing 'Pechito' López for our debut season has been a goal of ours for a long time" in an official release on the team website. At the same time the team signed the former Honda test driver James Rossiter, although this was never officially confirmed. Rossiter was then nearly signed by KV Racing Technology to race in the IndyCar Series.
The team's chassis, to be known as the US F1 Type 1, was to utilize the Cosworth CA2010 engine. In September, the first images of the Type 1 appeared in an interview on SpeedTV's Windtunnel program. A blog entry by senior engineer Scott Bennett revealed that the car would not simply be a design clone of current cars, but would be very innovative in development. US F1 was to have been the only new team in 2010 to feature their own gearbox, produced by EMCO Gears, Inc.