USF1 -- F1's All-American Challenger

[Richard]

Is there an official Technical director, Design manager or something like that?

Ken Anderson is fulfilling the role that you are asking about.

[xpensive]

Is there an official Technical director, Design manager or something like that?

Ken Anderson is fulfilling the role that you are asking about.

Oh, the Ligier draughtsman, that xplains a thing or two.

[cooper-climax]

How bout something relevent to the team... instead of all the death wishes for them from uninformed people.

http://www.autosport.com/news/report.php/id/80805
US F1 granted extra testing days

2 extra days cant hurt... unfortunatly I figure out how to tie Ferrari into this conspiracy... anyone wanna help?

I'll have a go at a Ferrari conspiracy in a bit, but for now...

That's a really odd story, The rule change and dispensation must have come from FOTA. There would have been uproar if the FIA had started unilaterally changing the rules this late in the day, and even worse if it had just gone and granted an exemption to one of Luca's favourite four.

So, FOTA decided to limit their own margin of error by limiting their opportunities for testing. Then, they decided to let one of their members/rivals ignore their own rules?

[xpensive]

What the h**l, give them the whole year if they think they need it, not that it's gonna make much of a difference.

I think.

[Belatti]

I think.

Yeah, you have been thinking a lot since Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:06 pm

[xpensive]

I think.

Yeah, you have been thinking a lot since Sat Nov 22, 2008 3:06 pm

Indeed. And more than you. I think.

[jddh1]

Look, I've wasted far too much of my time reading all this nonsense on this thread, and I've skipped a lot of pages. I could be wrong, so Tomba could probably say something about this, but the this topic must be the most active one this off-season.
Why is it that other teams don't have this much traffic on their threads? Yes, yes, it's because Windsor has been very idiotic about his comments and promises but are you all sure it's not something else?
I think it's because some well distinguished members of this community are quite skeptical of this entire endeavor, being American and all that. Well, I am quite certain that Windsor had high hopes he would find F1-knowledgeable talent here in the States. Perhaps we're not there yet with the Nascar saturation of our engineering ideas. So what's wrong in hiring foreigners anyway? Last time I checked, not everyone was Italian at Ferrari, or German at BMW, or Brit at McLaren and so on.
Besides the higher "heads" hired so far already live on this side of the Atlantic.
But who cares, because the people that are actually doing the grunt work are actually American, thus this is a legit American team. I suspect that over a few years a smart guy will work his way up the ladder, and with the experience gained will be able the run a F1 team.
We have the brains and muscle to be in Bahrain. I think we'll be there. And if we're not, oh well, big deal. We're a brand you team. But I assure you, we'll race next year.

[segedunum]

So what's wrong in hiring foreigners anyway? Last time I checked, not everyone was Italian at Ferrari, or German at BMW, or Brit at McLaren and so on.

Errrrr, Windsor made a huge thing about it being an American team with American driving and engineering talent. He went overboard on it to the press. He still hasn't announced Kyle Busch either.

[Pandamasque]

So what's wrong in hiring foreigners anyway? Last time I checked, not everyone was Italian at Ferrari, or German at BMW, or Brit at McLaren and so on.

Errrrr, Windsor made a huge thing about it being an American team with American driving and engineering talent. He went overboard on it to the press. He still hasn't announced Kyle Busch either.

Don't forget they have even a Welshman there.

[djos]

Bob Varsha's visit to USF1:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UppLHyLL4yQ[/youtube]

Dan Gurney talks about his memories and then says nice things about Ken and Peter*:

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RYM8MpkLUWg[/youtube]

*Even I think it's a bit too syrupy!

[Ray]

So what's wrong in hiring foreigners anyway? Last time I checked, not everyone was Italian at Ferrari, or German at BMW, or Brit at McLaren and so on.

Errrrr, Windsor made a huge thing about it being an American team with American driving and engineering talent. He went overboard on it to the press. He still hasn't announced Kyle Busch either.

Oh God I hope not. Kyle Busch would make an already horrible, but well deserved, perception of people from this country around the world even worse the first time he opened him immature, stupid mouth. If they announce him as a driver I will NOT watch Formula 1 with him in it and would be supremely embarrassed by him. I hate that guy with a passion, he's everything a young race driver shouldn't be outside of a racecar.

[mx_tifoso]

Formula 1 - Inside the US F1 Team factory Gallery

[xpensive]

Why is it that other teams don't have this much traffic on their threads? Yes, yes, it's because Windsor has been very idiotic about his comments and promises but are you all sure it's not something else?

Threading about the thread itself now, I can only speak for myself of course, but it's about the general credibility of the whole thing. It begins with the lack of xperience in Windsor's and Anderson's record, both of their CV's are rather fabricated when it comes to F1, while each of the other newbies has a direct connection to someone who's done this before. But moreover, it's this never ending name-dropping and references to this and that, which is so annoying.

It has absolutely nothing to do with any derogatory opinion of US technical competence, I completted my MSc at UW
and a design-engineering office in Bellevue Wa, why I don't need to be reminded of that.

[WhiteBlue]

Red Bull is skipping the first test. I'm wondering what hell would brake loose if they were not an established front running team but a new team. It just shows that people take the smallest news snippet in the off season and balloon it out of proportions. Certainly the ongoing scepticism about USF1 is completely unfair and misplaced, particularly the Gazetto dello Sport rumor mongering about USF1 skipping the first four races.

[cooper-climax]

Lotus have already said that they won't be in Valencia. Its more about managing expectations. Tony Feranadez said early on, that they would have to bring a matchbox car to the group launch. Then came the announcement that they would be missing the first test, but would be trying to have two cars by the last. Generally people have been fine with that. To the point that it seems to have slipped under your radar.

Another team has consistently failed to deliver on any of their promises, so even when they announce that they have extra testing time, people wonder if they have a car to make use of it.