Ferrari Mailing List: New F1 team set for 2010 – Made in USA?

[Red5hilser (Red5hilser]

Hey Stax: For shame! Gurney and his Eagle were the 1st American driver  and 
team to compete in F1? LMFAO, my friend. Better lay off the Jack. I know,  I 
was in your shoes once.
 
I seem to remember a young chap with the last name of Reventlow back in  1960 
who entered and raced a  two car American team in  Europa that he called 
Scarabs. I think his given name was Lance.
 
I remember seeing Lance, along with his then wife, Jill St John (the  most 
beautiful woman that I ever saw) at Riverside more than once when the  team was 
doing development testing out there.
 
 
In a message dated 2/7/2009 12:09:44 A.M. Central Standard Time, Staxwax  
writes:

     
New F1 team set for  2010 – Made in USA?
Despite the fact  that motorsport worldwide is reeling from the current 
global credit crunch,  it has been revealed that a new Formula 1 team could be 
set 
to take to the  grand prix starting grid in 2010 – made in America.

German website  motorsport-total.com has reported that the new squad – called 
USF1 –  has been in the offing since last summer, with at the helm former 
Williams  and Ferrari team manager Peter Windsor and highly-respected IndyCar  
technical and design guru Ken Anderson, whose cars have triumphed in no  fewer 
than five Indianapolis 500 races and claimed four IRL  crowns.

Having in the past worked alongside such F1 luminaries as  Nigel Mansell, 
Carlos Reutemann and John Barnard, Windsor now plies his  trade as an esteemed 
journalist and television pundit. The 56-year-old is  well-known in the States 
by dint of his commentary for SPEED TV.  Anderson previously featured in F1 
with Ligier and Onyx back in 1989 and  1990 respectively, and has also worked 
with success in NASCAR circles, with  Haas/CNC Racing.

It is claimed that the new team – which began to  take shape following the 
2008 Canadian Grand Prix and is said to have  received the blessing of the 
sport's commercial rights-holder Bernie  Ecclestone – will be unveiled to the 
public before the end of this month,  and hopes to be ready to make its Formula 
1 
debut as early as  2010.

USF1 will allegedly have its base in the heart of NASCAR  country in 
Charlotte, North Carolina, with an agreement in place to make use  of the new 
Windshear wind tunnel in the Deep South state. There could also  be a European 
headquarters in Bilbao in Spain.

Other rumours,  meanwhile, suggest that Anderson – who is understood to have 
attempted to  purchase the defunct Super Aguri outfit last year – is 
formulating a bid to  buy-out Honda F1.

It is claimed that Anderson's goal in the USF1  project is to provide a 
showcase for both American drivers and technology.  The last US-born driver to 
compete in the top flight was Scott Speed back in  2006 and 2007, whilst the 
only 
American drivers to have lifted the world  championship laurels have been the 
late Phil Hill in 1961 and Mario Andretti  in 1978. The sole time an American 
driver and American car have run together  as a combination was Dan Gurney in 
his Eagle more than four decades  ago.

 
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