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

[Red5hilser (Red5hilser]

Hey Tom: They weren't? I'll just be damned! They had 2.4 litre engines,  
conformed with all F1 rules, and raced in F1 events. They were built for F1  
exclusively and raced in no other series. Too small for Indy, too big for 
either  
sprints or midgets, and as a single seater with no fenders, etc, was excluded  
from orld Sports Car competition.
 
If you really want to get technical, Gurney's Eagle wasn't a true F1 car to  
start with. Goodyear, who put up a large portion of the financial backing  
wamnted it to be primarily an Indy car. It was designed as a dual purpose  
vehicle that, with minor modifications be either. and it had far greater 
success  as 
an Indy car than F1. Look it up in the book Dan Gurney's Racing Eagles. If  
you don't have a copy, you can borrow mine.
 
To quote yer old buddy 'Tailgunner Joe' McCarthy, If it looks like a duck,  
walks like a duck, and sounds like a duck, it must be a duck. End of  
discussion.
 
Yer pal, Ferrari Bubba
 
 
In a message dated 2/7/2009 10:51:04 A.M. Central Standard Time,  
kjtar [at] cox.net writes:

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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To: <kjtar [at] cox.net>
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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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