Showing posts with label USF1. Show all posts
Showing posts with label USF1. Show all posts

Monday, January 11, 2010

Campos in trouble


Campos looks to be one of the new teams with serious chances of not making the whole 2010 year since they have trouble on raising the necessary budget. The comeback of the Senna name didn't help as much as they hoped in raising big sponsorship money and a few attempts to find new investors haven't produce any resolds yet.
The team is trying to bring a second driver with a good amount of money to help there financial situation. Some of the mention names are young Venezuelan driver Pastor Maldonado or Russia's Vitaly Petrov, both thought to have access to serious funding from their countries but an agreement hasn't be successful yet, a situation that is putting the team's future in doubt.
Inside sources of the Campos chassis builder company Dallara say that the Campos Meta F1 team has been late in paying there bills and Dallara has already slow down the development of the car.

If things go bad for the Spanish outfit Stefan GP is always there to take any available spot since they already bought the Toyota F1 car that was developed for this year and they are waiting for a free position on the grid.

Ecclestone made a prediction a few days ago that Campos and USF1 probably won't make it to the grid. He seems close in being right about now although the rumors about USF1 asking to be absent from the first GP's were denied by the American team.
USF1 also released a new video on there Youtube channel but still many found it not so convincing.

Friday, January 8, 2010

USF1 testing in home ground


Peter Windsor in an interview on the official Formula 1 website said that USF1 got the approval to do there first tests in there home ground in the US before moving to Europe.

Unfortunately his still beating around the bush on the matter of the driver lineup. He insist they aren't going after pay drivers but it's not like there are a lot of drivers left who can be consider highly capable. I wonder if they called Heidfeld who seems to be the best option left.
If they really aren't going for drivers who will bring money that is.