If you are interested in a formula one team for the USA, check out Nigel Roebuck's column in Autoweek of March 9, 2009. He reports that Ken Anderson and Peter Windsor are setting up an American team which will be based in Charlotte, N.C.
With the new emphasis on cost cutting, this is now a real possibility. Gone are the days when if you wanted to start a new team you had to post a $48 million dollar bond.
Now they still have to round up sponsors, and they are talking about a European base in Spain. It looks like it will be a relatively, small effort of about 120 in-house employees. Mr. Stebuck said that not too long ago the Ferrari team had ten times this number of employees.
There is a lot of support for a USF1 team. It sure would be nice to have our country get back in the formula one game. Perhaps down the road we will even have a formula one race in North America again.
As an aside, I attended a Ferrari Club board of director meeting last night. One of the topics was the idea of getting some of the members together to watch a formula one race this year. One of the problems is the time difference between when it is televised in our country. Looks like we could watch one race together, however we may have to start at 4:00am to watch a live race. Not sure I'm going to be there.
Comments or E-mail me
Honda Accord Performance Articles
Honda Accord Appearance Articles
Thanks for visiting.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment