USF1

Monstrobolaxa · Post by **Monstrobolaxa** » 11 Jul 2012, 14:43

Since there is a lot of info out there on the USF1 fiasco, I think it should be added to the teams database!

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 11 Jul 2012, 14:47

If USF1 is added then so should Prodrive! (Although I do believe that neither are actually eligible...)

Post by **DemocalypseNow** » 11 Jul 2012, 14:47

Monstrobolaxa wrote:Since there is a lot of info out there on the USF1 fiasco, I think it should be added to the teams database!

Technically they are not rejects as they never entered a race!

Monstrobolaxa · Post by **Monstrobolaxa** » 11 Jul 2012, 15:16

Well I know they aren't a reject, but in this case they did make an effort to build a complete car. It's just that I the info is out there and if no one compiles it, it will be forgotten.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 11 Jul 2012, 18:19

Sounds more like a Reject Centrale article rather than a full profile, as the others have said.

Faustus · Post by **Faustus** » 30 Nov 2012, 12:43

A while ago, easily 2 years ago, I think it was after the auction of USF1's few assets, Adam Cooper wrote a really good 2-part article on USF1, but I can't find it online. I think it was on speed.com, but I may be wrong. Does anyone remember this?

AndreaModa · Post by **AndreaModa** » 30 Nov 2012, 17:27

I'll bet if you check through the forums, someone's bound to have linked to it somewhere. Even if they haven't there'll be a whole load of information from around that time as it was pretty much all we talked about for a while! The exciting prospect of having lots of new reject teams I suppose!

Faustus · Post by **Faustus** » 30 Nov 2012, 22:10

AndreaModa wrote:I'll bet if you check through the forums, someone's bound to have linked to it somewhere. Even if they haven't there'll be a whole load of information from around that time as it was pretty much all we talked about for a while! The exciting prospect of having lots of new reject teams I suppose!

That was the first thing I did and when I couldn't find it I posted here.

Aerospeed · Post by **Aerospeed** » 01 Dec 2012, 01:19

Faustus wrote:A while ago, easily 2 years ago, I think it was after the auction of USF1's few assets, Adam Cooper wrote a really good 2-part article on USF1, but I can't find it online. I think it was on speed.com, but I may be wrong. Does anyone remember this?

What month was the auction? I might be able to find this

Faustus · Post by **Faustus** » 03 Dec 2012, 10:52

JeremyMcClean wrote:
Faustus wrote:A while ago, easily 2 years ago, I think it was after the auction of USF1's few assets, Adam Cooper wrote a really good 2-part article on USF1, but I can't find it online. I think it was on speed.com, but I may be wrong. Does anyone remember this?

What month was the auction? I might be able to find this

June 2010.

Faustus · Post by **Faustus** » 13 Dec 2012, 10:14

I found it! It was on Speed, but it wasn't by Adam Cooper, it was by Jonathan Ingram. Great article, check it out:

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/ ... omeback/P1

AdrianSutil · Post by **AdrianSutil** » 13 Dec 2012, 18:23

Faustus wrote:I found it! It was on Speed, but it wasn't by Adam Cooper, it was by Jonathan Ingram. Great article, check it out:

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/ ... omeback/P1

That's the most in-depth article I've read in USF1 so far. Seems Anderson was mostly at fault, plus some of the designers.

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 19 Dec 2012, 02:17

Never entered a race, attempted to get Kyle Busch, a NASCAR driver who is absolutely ineligible for a Superlicense to drive the car, and disappeared. Sounds like it deserves it's own special category of reject.

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] · Post by **Sunshine_Baby_[IT]** » 19 Dec 2012, 15:57

Onxy Wrecked wrote:Never entered a race, attempted to get Kyle Busch, a NASCAR driver who is absolutely ineligible for a Superlicense to drive the car, and disappeared. Sounds like it deserves it's own special category of reject.

Honourary reject?

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 28 Dec 2012, 04:50

Sunshine_Baby_[IT] wrote:
Onxy Wrecked wrote:Never entered a race, attempted to get Kyle Busch, a NASCAR driver who is absolutely ineligible for a Superlicense to drive the car, and disappeared. Sounds like it deserves it's own special category of reject.

Honourary reject?

Yes, the effort was such a farce that it would have made Andrea Moda F1 look legitimate. As in Busch hasn't driven in an open wheeler since his go kart days a long time ago. Of course, that also speaks highly of his talent that USF1 management believed he could be great in almost anything he chooses to drive, but NASCAR isn't a place F1 drivers can be produced from even if he's outrunning Juan Pablo Montoya, Marcos Ambrose, and Scott Speed in almost every race. The cars would be like comparing a Ariel Atom to a Chevy Impala.

Yannick · Post by **Yannick** » 07 Jan 2013, 21:28

My, what a history! Great article, though.

Why could they not replace their team principal? It happened at HRT/Campos, too.

Pointrox · Post by **Pointrox** » 10 Jan 2013, 14:09

Yannick wrote:Why could they not replace their team principal? It happened at HRT/Campos, too.

Adrian Campos' only problem was that he was short of money and couldn't afford Dallara's already built car.
USF1 tried to build one themselves and failed miserably. Even if someone was generous and delusional enough to pay USF1's bills etc., they wouldn't be able to even buy a car from a subcontractor, let alone finish building the Type One - it was just way too late.
Says enough about the competence of people behind USFa1l, namely Peter Windsor.

Paul Hayes · Post by **Paul Hayes** » 12 Jan 2013, 15:57

There's probably scope for a whole new F1 website out there based around "Proposed Teams Which Never Turned a Wheel".

Mind you, you'd have to decide where to draw the line - I mean, I could sit here and say I am proposing to launch Team Hayes for the 2014 season, but I doubt it would make the Autosport news pages.

Faustus · Post by **Faustus** » 12 Sep 2013, 09:17

AdrianSutil wrote:
Faustus wrote:I found it! It was on Speed, but it wasn't by Adam Cooper, it was by Jonathan Ingram. Great article, check it out:

http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/ ... omeback/P1

That's the most in-depth article I've read in USF1 so far. Seems Anderson was mostly at fault, plus some of the designers.

shite, I can't find this article any more. The link just redirects to the Speed main page.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 12 Sep 2013, 13:46

Faustus wrote:
AdrianSutil wrote:
Faustus wrote:I found it! It was on Speed, but it wasn't by Adam Cooper, it was by Jonathan Ingram. Great article, check it out:
http://formula-one.speedtv.com/article/ ... omeback/P1

That's the most in-depth article I've read in USF1 so far. Seems Anderson was mostly at fault, plus some of the designers.

shite, I can't find this article any more. The link just redirects to the Speed main page.

http://web.archive.org/web/201005140818 ... omeback/P1
http://web.archive.org/web/201005111050 ... omeback/P2
http://web.archive.org/web/201005111050 ... omeback/P3
http://web.archive.org/web/201005111050 ... omeback/P4

Read it again, you can.

Faustus · Post by **Faustus** » 12 Sep 2013, 14:48

dinizintheoven wrote:http://web.archive.org/web/201005140818 ... omeback/P1
http://web.archive.org/web/201005111050 ... omeback/P2
http://web.archive.org/web/201005111050 ... omeback/P3
http://web.archive.org/web/201005111050 ... omeback/P4

Read it again, you can.

Powerful, you are. Thank you Jim!

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 12 Sep 2013, 17:00

For future reference, shove the dead link into the search box at web.archive.org and it will be magically resurrected. And you all thought F1RMGP's Hologram Projection Unit was unrealistic...

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 12 Sep 2013, 21:09

dinizintheoven wrote:For future reference, shove the dead link into the search box at web.archive.org and it will be magically resurrected. And you all thought F1RMGP's Hologram Projection Unit was unrealistic...

Bringing old articles Back To The Future (their relative future, our present!)...

CoopsII · Post by **CoopsII** » 13 Sep 2013, 10:50

I miss waiting for USF1 to turn up on the grid

Wallio · Post by **Wallio** » 20 Sep 2013, 17:18

I just got around to reading the now resurrected link, and did I read that right? The only reason they didn't merge with Stefan was because he wanted red cars? Seriously? And don't give me "only Ferrari run red cars" Toyota and Midland were (mostly) red. BAR and Williams were red for a while, and Hell Ferrari themselves changed their own red! If that's the only reason, what a bunch of bathplug-ups.

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