F1: Ross Brawn surprised USF1 not yet crash-testing

From GMM

Ross Brawn has expressed surprise at the news that USF1, one of three start-up new teams for the 2010 season, has not yet commenced internal crash-testing of car components.

The publications Blick and Auto Motor und Sport revealed the news this week, to which Brawn replied: "We have been crash testing for the new car for the past two months, to be ready for the official tests. A new team should be doing the same if it wants to be ready for the beginning of the season," the Briton added.

Germany's Auto Motor und Sport estimated the chance that the Charlotte based team will be ready to race in 2010 at "zero".

It has been rumoured that one possible outcome for USF1 is the sale of its 2010 entry to another team. The reports said that at a recent FOTA meeting, all team bosses with the exception of USF1 sporting director Peter Windsor wanted to forbid teams from selling their official entries.


The boss of Epsilon Euskadi, Joan Villadelprat, is more realistic about Formula One. Even if yet another team pulls out of formula one, it is now too late for Epsilon Euskadi to be ready to race on the 2010 formula one grid.

To the Spain's Radio Marca, Joan Villadelprat said: "The project has been stopped for two months so it is not possible. The car would not be ready in time." Asked if he would buy Toyota's Cologne operation, he answered: "It has many, many jobs and a very big structure; a bag too heavy to carry."