Conducted and provided by the FIA’s press office.
When the FIA opened entries for the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship, it received applications from 15 potential new teams.Â
All of those entries underwent a stringent due diligence process to ensure that new teams have the required level of funding, resources, experience and technical expertise to compete at the highest level of motor sport. Three of those teams have been confirmed for 2010 and further due diligence is currently taking place on other potential entries.Â
Detailed below is information about each of the new teams that will compete in the Championship from next year.Â
Company Name: Campos Meta
Team Name: Campos Grand Prix
Country: Spain
Team Principal: Adrian Campos Suñer
The Campos Racing team was launched in 1998 by ex-Formula One driver Adrian Campos. Since that time it has competed in various championships from GP2 to Euro F3. It has won six driver championships, five team championships and currently holds the GP2 Series 2008Â …Â Details
The meteoric rise of Brawn GP under 2009’s new technical regulations – juxtaposed against the equally precipitous fall of Ferrari and McLaren – has put them in the limelight both on and off track. But despite their massive success and key sponsors, Brawn is still a relatively small privateer-operated team, and they need to raise funds every way they can.
One of those ways is the auction of several race cars and show cars from the 2001-2006 period of the Honda and British American Tobacco F1 teams that were included in Brawn’s purchase of Honda’s F1 operation.
“We are delighted to be able to give collectors and our fans the opportunity to share in our history and purchase some fantastic items, including actual race cars, through this unique sale,” said Brawn GP’s CEO Nick Fry…Â Details
It’s no coincidence that Danica Patrick’s contract with Andretti Green Racing is due to expire at the end of this year and rumors are increasing about her moving from the IndyCar Series to NASCAR.
Let me throw a curve ball into the mix.
Given slipping TV ratings and at-track attendance, sponsorship issues and other maladies that the sport is trying to fight through, I’m betting Patrick is using the possibility of moving to NASCAR as a bargaining chip.
But not to return to Indy Cars. Thanks to a very well-placed motorsports source in Germany, what would you say if I told you Patrick may be trying to work both the IRL and NASCAR to leverage a high-profile ride in Formula One? …Â Details
Amidst all of the bickering, wrangling and hand-wringing consuming the Formula One teams when they aren’t on the track comes word that Lotus could return to the sport next year. Yes, that would be the same Lotus founded by Colin Chapman, one of the greatest innovators racing ever saw. The same Lotus that revolutionized F1 on more than one occasion.
The retro-racing vibe goes deeper. Brabham, the outfit launched by “Black Jack†Brabham and once owned by F1 capo di tutti capi Bernie Ecclestone has its eyes on the grid. There’s also some mumbling about Lola and March fielding cars next year.
All of this is fueled by the civil war between the Formula One Teams Association and the Federation Internationale d’Automobile, which are at odds over… Details
[ad#cor1]