An American-Based Formula One Team

Plans to field an American-based Formula One team for the 2010 Formula One season were announced in February by Formula One veterans Peter Windsor and Ken Anderson. Since then they have been doing the ground work for the foundations of their new team, hiring needed personnel and moving into their American facility in Charlotte, North Carolina. Peter Windsor was formally the team manager for Williams and Ken Anderson was formally the technical director for Ligier.

An American-based Formula One team?

All the work they are doing right now may actually be for nothing if for some unknown reason their petition to join Formula One’s fraternity isn’t accepted by the FIA. They will have to wait until June to find out if all their work has been for anything, although it would be very unusual at this point if they were refused. In the meantime they still have to prepare as if their petition to enter the halls of Formula One has been accepted, which means they have to hire and form their team, design and build their car and then torture test the car to see if its Formula One tough.

The short time between possible ratification of their entry into Formula One and the beginning of the 2010 Formula One season means they have a lot of work to do in a very short time and not just any work either. They have to create the team infrastructure, form the management team, and hire the design department and other elements that are required, and then hire additional manufacturing personnel and ultimately the driving talent to be the catalyst for the teams success is only on step. Rumors persist by the way that team Windsor-Anderson will field as many American drivers as they can find to fill the drivers’ seat. The names that have been mentioned certainly have been heard before; A.J. Allmendinger, Ryan Hunter-Reav, Graham Rahal, Jonathan Summerton, and Danica Patrick are some of the best known.

There are even a few new comers on the list of Americans that could certainly do an admirable job, and I for one would like to see some new blood. These names include Gaby Chavez, who has been burning up the BMW tracks, Conor Daly, the son of Derek Daley, Josef Newgarden, who has been victorious in Britain of late, and Alex Rossi, an American who won the BMW championship last year.

Anderson-Windsor plans on running a cost-effective team that is thrifty, and to use their financial intelligence to effect in combination with Formula One’s £40-million budget cap that’s being considered for the 2010 FIA Formula One season.

The official entry list for the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship will have 13 teams on it if everything goes as Anderson and Windsor are planning and I for one will be glad to see their name on the list.

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