USF1 wants to choose pilots "early".

Having secured a place on the grid for 2010, the new American team - USF1 - hopes to choose its drivers "very soon". Co-founder Peter Windsor, the British journalist who is the voice of the official F1 press conference after qualifying and the race, said that although the FIA ​​only confirmed the team last Friday a list of potential drivers already existed Before.

“We have already done a week of observation of young American drivers and there are many good ones. We will make a decision on this very soon,” the 57-year-old told BBC radio.

In addition to his work as a journalist, Windsor has previously worked for some F1 teams, in particular at Williams, where he was team manager and was in the car with Sir Frank William during the accident that left him paraplegic in 1986, and at Ferrari where he worked as manager of the chassis manufacturing department.

Meanwhile his partner Ken Anderson worked in the technical departments of Ligier and Onyx, created a unique wind tunnel and designed many winning Indy cars.

Windsor said last Friday: “I have a lot of road and history in this sport and this is a special day for me.”

Andre' Cotta