Reports out of North Carolina suggest that F1 journalist Peter Windsor is one of the main figures behind “USF1” – an American group planning an entry in 2010. The website www.usf1.com is owned by design engineer Ken Anderson, but features nothing but a logo at this point. Anderson was the former Technical Director at Ligier and Onyx in F1 before returning home to work with Chip Ganassi & AJ Foyt Racing. He then designed the G-Force IRL cars introduced in 1996 & 2000, as well as Dan Gurney’s All-American Racers-Toyota for CART. He last worked with Haas CNC in NASCAR while Windsor, former Ferrari and Williams F1 team manager, is a familiar face in the USA thanks to his work as Speed Channel’s pit reporter.

Rumors have the team setting up a base near Concord, North Carolina, where Anderson is a partner in the Wind Shear, Inc full size wind tunnel used by NASCAR teams and occasionally be F1 outfits. They have also been linked with the former Honda team currently for sale, since they would need a European base of operations for part of the season, but this option makes no mention of running the 2009 season.

With Indycar and NASCAR teams struggling to find sponsorship, even with the planned cost reductions in F1 it seems like a very odd time to try to launch an all-new team halfway around the world, especially when there is an off-the-shelf one available in Brackley – that comes complete with Ross Brawn! Even so, we will be following developments closely.

– MCZF1