Almost official: USF1 wouldn't race in 2010

Youtube are not involved with USF1.
The former owner and founder of Youtube personally is or was. Right now nobody knows what the h--- is going on.
Anderson says he has asked for a 4 race exemption.
Nick Craw, acting for the FIA say only a clarification of the confusing situation on missing the first 3 races has been requested.
Nobody, including Anderson, seems to know what if anything Windbag is doing or where he is.
Rumours say there is not even one viable tub let alone anything else.
This cannot be verified or disproven.
Of course this is from the most open and fan friendly team ever.

Years ago as an F Atlantic mechanic I was through the March and Ensign F1 factories with no hassle. Shot the breeze with Mo Nunn.
Was also through Chevron and had lunch with Derek Bennett and Paul Owen. Man were they ever secretive and hostile people. :D

A USF1 "insider" has given his/her insights.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/81664

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"At the moment there are still 60 people working in Charlotte, but 10 have already left."

"Having failed to put out a car, sponsorship money didn't materialise," continued the staff member. "That wasn't for Windsor's lack of trying.

"I do know that Windsor was told of our progress on a number of occasions off the record in informal settings, but it took a very contentious shop meeting in late January/early February for him to twig [that] indeed we had an issue.

"In a meeting between the employees, Windsor and Anderson, Windsor put the question up to the employees: 'Who here doesn't think we'll make Bahrain?' I think Windsor might have meant it somewhat rhetorically, but he was answered nonetheless, and 100 per cent of the staff raised their hands. He was visibly shocked."

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"The story that the employee tells is certainly twisted and one-sided," said Anderson.

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Hardly inspiring stuff is it?? :mad: Wise up man - you've f*%ked it up

This unamed employee, who must be legit, confirms what has been posted in forums by other people who claim to be employees. Autosport, I expect, would be sure they were getting info from a trusted source.
The 'other' posters said basically the same thing but there is no proof that they are not the same person as the Autosport informant. Highly unlikely though.
All indications point to Anderson as the main problem.
Again what he claimed to the NY Times is contradicted by what Nick Craw says.
If there really is anything resembling a complete car or even a proper tub it would be easy for USF1 to post pictures on the web site.

Reading on in that article, this little quote from Anderson

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"Given the late start due to the FIA/FOTA situation of 2009, I asked everybody to keep the car simple, strong and reliable. The comment that the chassis moulds sat for a month while waiting for a lay-up schedule is exactly the sort of thing that hurt us. Way too complex and time consuming. I did question why it was so complex if it was not necessary.

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Thats nice of you Anderson, criticise what is left of your already under pressure workforce http://www.footballbanter247.co.uk/f...efault/doh.gif

Windsor asked "Who doesn't think we will make Bahrain?" and was SHOCKED at the hands shown? THAT is a man who is swimming in the wrong water.

I can see this all ending very badly with lots of lawsuits and lawyers....

In this multinational forum I have to say I am ashamed to see a U.S. flag next to comments that excuse and condone wishful thinking about the death of public figures. Check the thread again because it was not Gary Walker who first used politics as an example to talk about an F1 team. It was a clearly liberal poster in favor of policies, people or sports teams that they don't agree with failing or dieing. An enlightened view in favor of the failure of others.
:rolleyes:

How about instead, as some have suggested, letting anyone show up and the winner will be determined on merits. It seems such a straightforward policy is opposed by those who wish to have the power to force others to fail through politics.

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Originally Posted by truefan72

How old are you and what exactly do you know about Bush2 and M.Thatcher for you to ever feel sorry or empathize with these two people. If you have no idea about politics and their real life decisions that affected millions, caused pain and anguish to many and death to many more with useless wars apathy, greed, politics and misguided conservatism then please do not use these as examples in this forum. F1 is a sport and should be kept in that context when discussing things. Don't bring into the discussions things that only make you seem ignorant about real life.

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Anderson says the tub was too complex and that was the reason the lay up schedule took a month to be approved. Not his exact words but the only way to take them. That does not make sense. The complexity should not affect the scheduling of the work. The time to do the lay up, yes but not the scheduling unless he told them to redesign the tub.
Again for a good part of the period he was the main designer and according to leaked info had to approve everything. So how did we get a supposedly overly complex tub?
Again leaked reports have said his thinking is 20 years out of date and he will not listen to staff with current F1 experience.
We know what he said to the NY Times about allowing the team to miss 4 races has been contradicted by Nick Craw on behalf of the FIA.
We know his resume on the USF1 web site is more than a little overblown.
I am doubting anything he says.

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Originally Posted by garyshell

Oh so all it takes is for someone to care and magically the funding and everything else will fall into place. If you say so Peter Pan. I bet you thought Tinkerbell could be saved by believing in fairies too.

Gary

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You should read the article recently posted in Autosport. I hope you're still not sticking your head in the sand, Gary. Make fun of me all you want, but face the facts, Windsor is clueless and along with Anderson, liars.

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Our January 15 pay cheque was late. It was paid by the 20th or so, but it certainly caused commotion and people started asking questions.That's when all the company's issues came to a head, and the conclusion was... yes, we had been lied to about the long-term budget, and indeed the company had a cash flow issue. But as mentioned, that really was a secondary issue.

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I guess people don't have mortgages to pay. :confused: