USGPE in talks with Danica Patrick for a possible race seat, Ecclestone promises to ’save’ Formula 1
Posted by HarvinderJune 23, 2009 |
Charlotte-based Formula 1 team, USGPE is currently in talks with Indy Car driver Danica Patrick regarding a possible race seat for the team’s 2010 debut. USGPE’s sporting director Peter Windsor said, “We’re getting near to the point where we start looking at drivers and Danica is on our list for sure, because she’s the best-placed American in the leading single-seater championship of the United States.”
The US team is looking to have at least one American driver in it’s line up. “There are some other great drivers out there, Marco Andretti, Graham Rahal, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Jonathan Summerton…the list goes on. There are some really good guys and we’ve got to start focusing on that, ” he added.
He also went on comment about the current FOTA-FIA debacle and said, “We are open to the political instability. We’re building various iterations of the car based around the ways we think the regulations could go.” USGPE has yet to decide which rule to participate in Formula 1 with; with or without the budget cap.
Danica Patrick, 27, is currently racing for Andretti Green Racing is has thus far finished four times in the top five, after seven races for this year’s season. Last year, Danica finished in sixth place overall, and became the first female to win a major closed-course auto race in April at Twin Ring Motegi.
USGPE, along with Manor and Campos will join the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship, and will be powered by Cosworth powerplants. These new teams were supposed to join the current teams to make up a 13 team line up, but due to the budget cap row, eight top teams have revealed that, via FOTA, they will establish a rival series.
Thus far we are hearing that both FOTA and the FIA are not compromising, but Formula 1’s commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has ‘promised’ that the pinnacle of motorsport will not break up. Ecclestone told The Times that, “I have given 35 years of my life and more to Formula 1, my marriage broke up because of Formula One, so I am sure as hell not going to let things disintegrate over what is, in the end, basically nothing.” He also added that, “If you analyse the problems, there aren’t any that can’t be easily solved.”
Now I can't see her moving to F1 if it is not to a top tier team as she has championship dreams in her eyes. She always brings up NASCAR when her contracts are under negotiations to get her best $$ offer but I will watch and see how it turns out. I am a fan of hers no matter what she is driving... kind of like my adoration for Tony Stewart having followed him from sprint cars all the way to NASCAR's Sprint Cup. I am simply a lover of the sport no matter what kid of cars are going around the track or what track they are on.
Posted by HarvinderJune 23, 2009 |
Charlotte-based Formula 1 team, USGPE is currently in talks with Indy Car driver Danica Patrick regarding a possible race seat for the team’s 2010 debut. USGPE’s sporting director Peter Windsor said, “We’re getting near to the point where we start looking at drivers and Danica is on our list for sure, because she’s the best-placed American in the leading single-seater championship of the United States.”
The US team is looking to have at least one American driver in it’s line up. “There are some other great drivers out there, Marco Andretti, Graham Rahal, Ryan Hunter-Reay, Jonathan Summerton…the list goes on. There are some really good guys and we’ve got to start focusing on that, ” he added.
He also went on comment about the current FOTA-FIA debacle and said, “We are open to the political instability. We’re building various iterations of the car based around the ways we think the regulations could go.” USGPE has yet to decide which rule to participate in Formula 1 with; with or without the budget cap.
Danica Patrick, 27, is currently racing for Andretti Green Racing is has thus far finished four times in the top five, after seven races for this year’s season. Last year, Danica finished in sixth place overall, and became the first female to win a major closed-course auto race in April at Twin Ring Motegi.
USGPE, along with Manor and Campos will join the 2010 Formula 1 World Championship, and will be powered by Cosworth powerplants. These new teams were supposed to join the current teams to make up a 13 team line up, but due to the budget cap row, eight top teams have revealed that, via FOTA, they will establish a rival series.
Thus far we are hearing that both FOTA and the FIA are not compromising, but Formula 1’s commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone has ‘promised’ that the pinnacle of motorsport will not break up. Ecclestone told The Times that, “I have given 35 years of my life and more to Formula 1, my marriage broke up because of Formula One, so I am sure as hell not going to let things disintegrate over what is, in the end, basically nothing.” He also added that, “If you analyse the problems, there aren’t any that can’t be easily solved.”
Now I can't see her moving to F1 if it is not to a top tier team as she has championship dreams in her eyes. She always brings up NASCAR when her contracts are under negotiations to get her best $$ offer but I will watch and see how it turns out. I am a fan of hers no matter what she is driving... kind of like my adoration for Tony Stewart having followed him from sprint cars all the way to NASCAR's Sprint Cup. I am simply a lover of the sport no matter what kid of cars are going around the track or what track they are on.
