Thread: USF1: Crash-Test Dummies, or just DUMMIES?

Confirmed, more or less: Team US F1 shuts down operation By Jonathan Noble and Dieter Rencken Tuesday, March 2nd 2010, 19:29 GMT Team US F1's Formula 1 hopes appeared to be over on Tuesday, with high level sources revealing to AUTOSPORT that the outfit has now been effectively closed down. Against the backdrop of weeks of uncertainty about the future of the American team, which had been struggling to get a car ready for the start of the...

Clag wrote: .....If that Campos car built by Dallara has one bit of success, there could be a huge departure from these teams that employ over payed engineers, to come up with designs that may or may not work. Sorry Clag but that just won't happen. HRT / Cosworth had their day in the sun today by just making the grid (and well done to them for doing so... ). Now that all 3 of the new teams are up and running however I'm expecting...

I can't help but think the whole thing was just a gigantic scam

I agree with Lyria , We've reached or darn sure are reaching the put up or shut up stage and since they knew the schedule if they can't put up then they should be gone and their spot up for grabs.

Well it's real easy to sit on your throne and say " See, I told you so" . But to say you knew this was all bullshit, is is just that. Nobody had an idea how this thing would end up, and if you say you did, your nothing more than another guy with a computer spitting out opinions. Should we have known better ? Yes. If you see something come out of the US and it doesn't have a name like Penske attached to it, then you...

Silver Fox wrote: If that report on USF1 shutting down is accurate I find it particularly galling that neither Windsor nor Anderson had the guts to stand in front of the team to give them the news themselves.... Its not the team's fault that the enterprise failed, its Windsor's & Anderson's - period. As such I feel sorry for the guys on the shopfloor and in the offices who fully invested themselves in the dream only to...

Silver Fox wrote: If that report on USF1 shutting down is accurate I find it particularly galling that neither Windsor nor Anderson had the guts to stand in front of the team to give them the news themselves.... That was my thought also as I read it. Overall, too bad. It will be interesting to find out what was the real story in the post-mortum. Was it that they just didn't have a steady and early enough flow of $$$, or was it really...

from screamingV16, autosport forum

Such a shame it has ended in this manner, especially for the boys and girls who bought the dream to compete in F1 and are now laid off. Hope some of them could find jobs with Steffy GP or something. Looks like were all fooled by those two silver-tongued salesmen. And that, my friends is the legacy of Maxxx Mosley.

The thing is, without any intention on my part of defending the ineptitude of the principals, often if you set up such a venture, you have to talk the talk before you can walk the walk. I mean, if you're trying to market a new team to sponsors, its no good if your publicity line goes like, "We're hoping to set up a team. In all honesty, the odds are against us but if we can get some backing we might be able to make a fist of...