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

[Tom Reynolds (kjtar]

Ferrari Willi, Bubba, Red, Bill (etc.)
     I think the article's point was that Dan Gurney and the Eagle was the
only American driver to drive an American car (actually Anglo-American) in
Formula 1.  The Scarabs were awesome cars, but they weren't F1 cars.
Tom in Tulsa

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Sent: Saturday, February 07, 2009 6:43 AM
Subject: [Ferrari] New F1 team set for 2010 – Made in USA?


>
>
> 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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