US F1 Team

The U.S. F1 Team was an American motor sports project based in Charlotte in the U.S. state of North Carolina, which in 2010 was planning to attend the Formula 1 World Championship since the spring of 2009 and was officially confirmed by the FIA ​​as a participant. After the beginning of the year 2010 increased rumors of a failure of the project, was finally announced the temporary suspension of operations in Charlotte on March 2, and a start in the 2010 season excluded.

History

Founder of the U.S. F1 project were the U.S. racing engineer Ken Anderson, who occupied the position of team leader, and the British motorsport journalist and former Williams team manager Peter Windsor, who was to act as sports director. Both have had many years of experience in motor sport.

U.S. F1 should debut next Campos Grand Prix, Virgin Racing and Lotus Racing as one of four new teams in Bahrain and as the first Formula 1 team since the team Haas (1985 and 1986 ) to participate with U.S. license. As an engine supplier of the team of the British manufacturer Cosworth was provided, which is represented for the first time since 2006 in Formula 1. The race car should be developed by U.S. F1 itself. Was announced for the 2010 season on the official website on January 25, 2010, José María López, the first driver. After weeks of speculation about the possible failure of the project López broke this treaty, however, again ..

Ken Anderson was originally hoped to be able to just skip the first race of the year and compete with the team at mid-season. To this end, he offered the FIA ​​in February 2010, the deposit of a security deposit with. The FIA ​​did not go to this site a though. Published on 3 March 2010 entry list contained no entry of the U.S. F1 Team.

After the cessation of operation in early March 2010, expressed Team Principal Anderson that he hoped to bring his project in 2011 at the start, according to press reports, however, the team was finally dissolved and auctioned off the inventory at an auction in June 2010. In response, the FIA retained as a penalty the registration fee for the 2010 season and joined the team for ever from all FIA competitions from.