Will Campos and USF1 make it to the grid in 2010?

So USF1 down.

Campos down but possibly not out.

Stefan waiting to enter the ring.

Does anyone know if the Campos cars have actually been built? If Stefan think they can get away with Friday first practice as their shakedown test maybe Campos can do the same if the cars are built and passed crash testing.
 
Campos are using effectively customer cars... (Well they are the only team using them so technically its allowed or something) I believe Dallara are supplying them, but Campos have been on and off with the payments for the cars...

God I hope Stefan GP get in now, really wanted to see the front runners having to go round a few more mobile chicanes to spice up some of the tracks i like less... *coughBahraincough*
 
pingwing said:
Campos are using effectively customer cars... (Well they are the only team using them so technically its allowed or something) I believe Dallara are supplying them, but Campos have been on and off with the payments for the cars...
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My understanding of the situation (hence, could well be wrong!) is:

It's not a customer car, as there is only 1 team using the car. A customer car would be where an already running team, or design was sold to another team to race. If you enter, and commission (for example) lola to build a car for your team, thats fine. I dont know what would happen if Dallara were asked to build a car for another team. They would presumably have to prove there was little (if any?) transfer of design from one car to the other... So i suspect it would not be allowed.

This is why STR and RB have had to build totally different cars this year.
 
EddScott said:
Does anyone know if the Campos cars have actually been built? If Stefan think they can get away with Friday first practice as their shakedown test maybe Campos can do the same if the cars are built and passed crash testing.
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Dallara are doing the chassis - I have no doubt they are up to the job as they have been knocking out chassis' for decades. But I don't think Campos are always up to paying the bill....
 
Stefan GP.. its got to the point now. Where surely it would be unsafe to let them into the 2010 F1 Season?

As there is no track testing time left, and if they just turned up at Bahrain the car is going to be breaking down every lap? :p
 
EddScott said:
Campos down but possibly not out.
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http://www.pitpass.com/fes_php/pitpass_news_item.php?fes_art_id=40041
Looks like there could be a name change on the cards for the Campos team. I can't see the powers that be letting it go ahead considering the utter joke they have made of prep for the season. I would love to see Stefan GP get a slot on the grid but I dont think the FIA will even consider it given the history they both have. Interesting to hear the EJ seems to think Stefan GP will be running though at the first race.
 
Its easy to point a finger and say "Ha Ha" in that way the bully does in the Simpsons but you have to feel sorry for these teams that haven't managed to get it together.

We are all motorsport fans and if we had lots of money and good connections I'm sure some of us would get carried away and think that we might be able to make it - how else do teams get started without the drive and ambition for a few individuals. It would also seem that a big problem is money and its absence in the global economy of late.

I know its a bit pointless for teams to turn up for a few races then fade away but I'm sure most of us felt saddened when Super Aguri collapsed. Its a big shame but I think those teams that we saw in testing will not be joined by any other team in Bahrain. Lola and Prodrive would certainly have got cars out and I'd be surprised if they don't appear in a year or two after ironing out whatever issues they have with Mr E.
 
I could be grabbing completely the wrong end of the stick, but I thought name changes had to be approved by the FIA and all the teams, hence the BMW Sauber Ferrari debacle? Or does that not apply because strictly speaking "Campos/Hispania" haven't actually raced yet?
 
Memphis said:
I could be grabbing completely the wrong end of the stick, but I thought name changes had to be approved by the FIA and all the teams, hence the BMW Sauber Ferrari debacle? Or does that not apply because strictly speaking "Campos/Hispania" haven't actually raced yet?
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If you change your name, its a new team. So you lose money from competing in previous years (prize-money for example)

With a new team, its not an issue, so they just need approval.

(edit - I think?!)
 
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