I bet he just gets to see the entrance hall with all their historic cars and the toilets Maybe a coffee outside overlooking the lake or even a tour of the car factory. Just need to sweep the area for bugs after! Not that Red Bull would spy obviously.
Well it seems as the F1 teams discussion with FIA on 14th Feb loom closer more info is being reported in the press!! It appears that there is more radio traffic that was broadcast!!! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/60318052 Red Bull's sporting director, Jonathon Wheatley was 'advising' Masi that the lapped cars didn't need to catch up with the back of the pack, you only need to let them go then we have a race!!! Which is of course exactly what happened!!! Can't see race results being changed but it does look very much like Masi was following Red Bull advice!!!!
Cheating but that's up to masi. He could only drop a red flag if he really wanted to end on a race not a safety car. Just 1 lap under safety car should have let him figure that one out.
Andretti talking about moving into F1 in 24. https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/60440631 Maybe buying Haas?
From what I read they are going to start from scratch and not buy an existing team which means a $100million (or could be $200mill I can't remember) buy in fee!!! They have said they will have 1 US driver. The possibility of 3 races in the US plus Netflix Drive to Survive seems to be finally cracking the US market which is what Liberty needed to do. It would be good to have an extra team in F1.
We really could use another independent team breaking in to F1 again. This would be fantastic, and the prospect of having Herta in formula 1 is quite exciting. I would expect Andretti to give this a far better crack of the whip than Haas have so far.
Well given haas bought a box of seconds out of the back door of ferrari off a dodgy geezer that is a given The issue is there simply is not 1000 staff floating about to be hired for all the various functions and even securing any engine will be very difficult
To be fair, there might actually be a load of staff available, this might be a good time to launch a new team. Red Bull, Ferrari, Mercedes, etc have had to reduce staff numbers to meet the budget cap. I know in Red Bull's case they spoke about starting other motorsport projects to keep hold of their talented staff, but no idea what's happened elsewhere. There's going to be people out of work, or people working in less-interesting roles just to stay employed. Sounds like Andretti will probably base his team in the UK. If he gets the go-ahead, they can probably start recruiting soon to build towards the 2024 season, before those engineers have had too long out of the sport.
I read that he is intending to build the F1 factory next to the IndyCart factory in Indianapolis! https://www.planetf1.com/news/andretti-global-ready-indianapolis-base-planned/
W Series have announced the return of Jamie Chadwick to defend her title (again), with the newly formed Jenner Racing team. Can't help but feel this is a huge issue for W Series. Their two time champion who has £500k in funding per title, cannot seem to get a seat in F3. And she won comfortably last season, in 8 races a single 6th place was her only non-podium finish, and she was only third once. Unless someone emerges and absolutely thashes Chadwick this season (which will be difficult given the amount of experience she has in these cars now), how does anyone now use W Series to make the case for moving further up the single-seater ladder? Maybe someone like Abbi Pulling, who is 18 (Chadwick 24) and looked very good in her W Series debut in the final 3 races last season (7th, 4th then 2nd) could impress, but it's going to be difficult. Unless W Series (or someone else) funds an F3 team and guarantees their champions a 2 year contract with that team, it's going to be really hard to show that W Series actually works to progress women drivers. Not a great look that Sophia Floersch, who is a vocal critic of W Series, is currently a very strong contender for "best female racing driver in Europe" at the moment, having raced in F3 and moved into endurance racing.
Oh interesting. I'm sure I read an interview (I want to say it was Mario interviewed by Racer?) where Mario thought he'd be basing himself somewhere in Europe because it's hard to run F1 teams from elsewhere, especially with logistics. He mentioned they'd build something new rather than their existing site in Dover (?)
I guess it's more about publicity and sponsorship. It looks better for them if they can have a US base, keeps up the US team, US base, US driver etc... I would guess that if they want experienced F1 people then getting the staff and their families to move from Europe might be tricky. It will also be interesting to get a US team to work with European PU manufacturers who will be working with metric system and US preferring to work in imperial! It would be great to see a well funded US team bring a car to F1.
Maybe so but is this brand new team.going to be in England to hire them (new buildings) or un America? He's going to have to build at high cost or buy in somewhere and then start hiring. Personally bar designers i don't think you.can be too long out of f1 anyway as an expert at fabricating carbon fiber or 3d print ing or electronics is an expert.
I am sure Renault would be happy to have a customer for their PU. If fact maybe that would be a good idea - team up with Renault for the first few years then gain experience to go it alone? Not sure how a French company would fit with US company.
Now is probably a good time to build a new team. The old order of things thrown up in the air with new regs and soon new engines coming soon. Building a new team needs a combination of developed talent and disruptors, in my opinion. Not to mention deep pockets, a good development driver and a naturally fast driver. The challenge sounds fun but the reality is a slog. Hard work, late nights, worries, airmiles, and and... I am a happy spectator. If I was younger, maybe I would fancy the circus of F1. W Series - I think it is going to take more than 2 years. It also requires a good manager to take and promote the talent.
