US F1 Team Press Conference - February 24th

[markabilly]

It's a very Euro-centric view One which sees US motorsport in terms of NASCAR as an unsophisticated, contrived entertainment show in comparison with F1. It's not one I share.

However, I had my doubts about USF1 when the news first broke, and I still have doubts. Not because they intend to be US-based, but because, other than Toyota, setting up an F1 team from scratch has not been done in a decade, and they've chosen perhaps the worst time to do it in economic terms.

USF1 talk a good talk at the moment, and appear to have exciting plans. I wish them all the best, and if they make it to the grid I hope they build a car as good looking as the Eagle mokin:

It should be as pretty as an old eagle, esp since I thought it was always better to win than to look good while losing, but if you can not have the former, might as well have the latter..... mokin:

Buying Honda might not be necessary as they and even others might be thinking a cheap, endless supply of competitve engines and drive trains, and the rest is relatively easy

[ChrisS]

usf1.com now redirects to usgpe.com, anyone knows if that means anything?

[pits4me]

The may have restrictions of using the "F1" term with FOM. At least until they are officially a recognised team. This is just a preliminary effort to get one going.

[pits4me]

The F1 restriction has been confirmed. http://www.USf1.com will be known as http://www.USgpe.com (US Grand Prix Engineering) until the official USF1Team is formed and http://www.USF1Team.com approved for use by FOM.

FYI - the domain http://www.USF1Team.com was reserved on Feb. 05 2009 via godaddy.com

[ChrisS]

US Grand Prix Engineering

I can see Peter Windsor used his former employer WilliamsF1, aka Williams Grand Prix Engineering as inspiration for the name