Pre-Season Post Mortem
With less than a week until first practise in Bahrain, we come to the end of one of the most eventful off season periods that anyone can remember. 12 months ago it was a shock that Honda had pulled out of F1, now we’re down to two major car manufacturers actually participating in the championship. [...]
FIA limits 2010 grid to 12 teams
Late yesterday evening the FIA confirmed the exit of USF1 from the official entry list and stated that no replacement would be allowed to fill their place. This rules out the entry of Serbian outfit Stefan GP who had been increasingly vocal about their desire and ability to take up a place on the grid [...]
USF1 – Time of Death
Yesterday, even as I was writing the post discussing what loss USF1 failing to turn up to the grid would be, news began to trickle out into the media. At approximately lunch time the remaining employees of USF1 were sent home and the factory closed. Ken Anderson has since confirmed to the press his team’s [...]
Is USF1 failing to make the grid a great loss?
I’ll spoil the ending for you all. No. It is no great loss at all for the circus to line up on the grid in Bahrain in under two weeks without the supposed USF1 team. The only loss suffered is the time lost to allow a replacement team to develop themselves and their car. Luckily [...]
