What if the USA lost their chance to host the an F1 race, a new team is preparing to assault the Ferraris and McLarens of the Formula1 World. It is also rumoured that Danica Patrick, the current Indycar babe, may be on the rolls! Certainly Interesting…
The USF1 is aiming to be the part of F1 in the 2010 Grandprix season hopefully with Danica as their star driver.
The troubled Honda team may just get rescued. The team management are trying to lure in an investor to keep the finances in position to be able to compete for this years grand prix. Jenson Button sounded optimistic in a Newspaper interview. After all, he is amoung thousands who had (almost should I say) lost a job recently.
Virgin Mobile (Japanese subsidiary), who had been the sponsers of Takuma Sato of four years may emerge as possible bidders for the team. Virgin is not new to F1, they had sponsored Jordan in 2002.
Its been reported that Richard Branson’s Virgin has already bid for the Brackley, south Northamptonshire, England based team. An announcement is expected from Honda by the end of the month. If any suitor succeeds in buying the team, it would save almost 700 employee’s jobs and ofcourse, the driver’s.
Any delay could affect the chances of Honda F1 team to start on the grid at Melbourne this season.
The news on the net has it that Force India’s former Chief Technical Officer Mike Gascoyne is suing Force India Formula One team for terminiation of his contract a year before it was set to expire. He was fired by Team Principle Vijay Mallya due to non performance of the team and the radical reshuffle happened in the team after they signed Mercedes – Benz as the engine supplier in Novemeber Last year.
The team did not score even a single point, which outraged the Team Principle who sought to make things right by reshuffling his management team.
Gascoyne has sued FIF1 for $2 Million he was entitled to get plus damages.
The formula of F1 is changing rapidly. With the comeback of the Slicks, F1 seems to be interesting once again.
The Cars have undergone a huge change and most of them would also incorporate the Kinetic Energy Recovery System, or KERS as it is abbreviated. This system will store the energy recovered from the hard braking on F1 Cars. Drivers would then use this power when they overtake other cars, giving a much needed boost to make the sport attractive.
This years favorites for every one are McLaren and Ferrari. But the tables may change anytime this year as the underdogs may rewrite the history.
Hope the Force India atleast can achieve some points this year atleast.
Europe is F1’s biggest customer base. To help them see the races on a feasible time, the FIA has delayed the start timings of races at Australia and Malaysian GP by two hours. Europe can now view races in early mornings rather that waking up at 3 past mid night.
Europe generates the most cash for F1 in terms of adverts.