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F1: USF1 Silent No More
USF1 has posted a video showing the progress of its 2010 car while breaking the silence it had since they announced their launch...
USF1 sporting director and former SPEED commentator Peter Windsor has broken the team’s silence and says the team is coming along. (Photo: LAT Photographic)
As if to further the support the claim they will indeed be on next year’s grid, USF1 has posted a video showing the progress of its 2010 car while breaking the silence it had since they announced their launch.
Last week USF1 sporting director, and former SPEED commentator, Peter Windsor was forced to defend F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone’s claim then the team would not be ready to contest the 2010 world championship
The video was posted on the USF1 website, which went live Friday, along with a blog from Windsor that explained many of the details concerning preparations for 2010, including the relative silence since the team announced its launch in February 2009.
“My answer is twofold,” Windsor wrote. “One, while the F1 politics were sorting themselves out there was very little that we could do or say. We’re all in the entertainment business we call F1 and there seemed little or no point in adding to the situation from the perspective of a new team.
Second, since August, we have been building our “house”. Literally. We gutted the ex-Hall of Fame Racing/Joe Gibbs NASCAR shop, re-painted it, re-floored it, re-wired it, re-lit it and re-designed it. In three weeks. That’s what you can do in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the economic impact of the motorsports industry approaches $6 billion per year. Ask and you will receive. Brilliant.
And then, once we had a building (and even before we had one), we began to design parts and to hire our team. Again we were building. People wanted to know what was “going on.” We replied that we were “putting together the team.” It’s a bit like building a new house. You don’t invite all your neighbors and family around to see it at least until you’ve got the living room almost done, or a few plates in the kitchen.”
As for team’s new European base in Spain, the MotorLand complex in Alcaniz, Windsor said it is nearly complete and added that it, “boasts a beautiful new F1 circuit, a moto-cross layout, a world championship kart track, rally Tarmac and dirt stages.”
Windsor reiterated that the team will be ready for 2010 and after a short holiday in England he would be heading back to Charlotte as the team prepares for its first Formula One Grand Prix.
“Very soon we’ll be announcing our driver line-up for 2010 plus a whole lot more besides,” Windsor wrote. “I can’t wait.”
Last week USF1 sporting director, and former SPEED commentator, Peter Windsor was forced to defend F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone’s claim then the team would not be ready to contest the 2010 world championship
The video was posted on the USF1 website, which went live Friday, along with a blog from Windsor that explained many of the details concerning preparations for 2010, including the relative silence since the team announced its launch in February 2009.
“My answer is twofold,” Windsor wrote. “One, while the F1 politics were sorting themselves out there was very little that we could do or say. We’re all in the entertainment business we call F1 and there seemed little or no point in adding to the situation from the perspective of a new team.
Second, since August, we have been building our “house”. Literally. We gutted the ex-Hall of Fame Racing/Joe Gibbs NASCAR shop, re-painted it, re-floored it, re-wired it, re-lit it and re-designed it. In three weeks. That’s what you can do in Charlotte, North Carolina, where the economic impact of the motorsports industry approaches $6 billion per year. Ask and you will receive. Brilliant.
And then, once we had a building (and even before we had one), we began to design parts and to hire our team. Again we were building. People wanted to know what was “going on.” We replied that we were “putting together the team.” It’s a bit like building a new house. You don’t invite all your neighbors and family around to see it at least until you’ve got the living room almost done, or a few plates in the kitchen.”
As for team’s new European base in Spain, the MotorLand complex in Alcaniz, Windsor said it is nearly complete and added that it, “boasts a beautiful new F1 circuit, a moto-cross layout, a world championship kart track, rally Tarmac and dirt stages.”
Windsor reiterated that the team will be ready for 2010 and after a short holiday in England he would be heading back to Charlotte as the team prepares for its first Formula One Grand Prix.
“Very soon we’ll be announcing our driver line-up for 2010 plus a whole lot more besides,” Windsor wrote. “I can’t wait.”
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