USF1

[Nick F40]

Well, I just watched the best show on Speed, Wind Tunnel, and he had some info on the Formula One team and Danica Patrick might be one of the drivers, not quite sure of the drivers at this point but have considerations. They have a 62 million dollar budget to work with, so it would be interesting, they have an announcment coming I think Thursday on Speed announcing this thing, so it's sounds like thier serious about it and going to go throught with it, I wonder what Ecclestone thinks about this or Max for that matter.

did you know that Bernie's net worth was 2.4 billion pounds last year?

Donnington ought to be good..........

No North American races, so we start a team!!

Wiki is all ahead

The project entitled USF1 confirmed that they would have a formal launch of the team's aspirations on 24th February 2009 with the plans to be broadcast on the American channel SPEED

with the rumor of US team and states "very likely to have United Stateas Grand Prix" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2010_Formula_One_season

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Formula_One_season

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Formula_One_season

[Brendan]

With only $62 million start up, they'll be out of money halfway through the season. The bare minimum is going to be at least $100 million. This is an absolutely stupid idea. There's no way they're going to be able to do it. The economy is not good. There's no way they're going to find sponsers to back that big of a project. You have Honda that had a big operating budget and they pulled out. And I'm betting Toyota will pull out after this season.

As for Danica Patrick being a driver is an absolute joke! She's not good in the U. S. so what would make them think she'd be good driving over in Europe. On top of that, there's no way she'd be able to get the license for the racing series. There's too many other better drivers out there. Look what happened to Micheal Andretti when he raced Formula 1. He got his rear end kicked and didn't even last a year. And for how old he is now, he's still a better driver than Danica.

[crispy]

I can't remember who Despain was talking with, but he(the guy he was talking to) too agreed Danica and Milka would not be the choice drivers for this team if it were to happen. He basically said they needed someone who was 19 or 20.

Nothing against the lady drivers, but I certainly don't think they would be the ones I would want to be driving my F1 car around.

As for the 62 million, I agree why even bother especially with these economic times. Sponsors are pulling out, factory backed teams are losing out etc etc etc.

I would think that even the minimum 100 million would be risky.

All the same I look forward to the F1 season starting.

Chris