{"id":21582,"date":"2014-04-12T00:15:26","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T04:15:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=21582"},"modified":"2014-04-11T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T00:18:46","slug":"engine-deal-is-next-move-for-2015-team-haas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/engine-deal-is-next-move-for-2015-team-haas\/","title":{"rendered":"Engine deal is ‘next move’ for 2015 team Haas"},"content":{"rendered":"

Colin Kolles is at the helm of ‘Forza Rossa’, a team that the FIA on Friday said could be next in line for a F1 debut.<\/p>\n

\"Colin-Kolles-1\"At a World Motor Sport Council meeting in Morocco, the governing body approved the 2015 entry of Californian Gene Haas’ outfit, called Haas Formula.<\/p>\n

And the FIA said “further investigations” are ongoing for another “high standard” application filed by Forza Rossa.<\/p>\n

It is believed Forza Rossa is the name of former HRT boss Kolles’ new Romanian-backed project.<\/p>\n

However, Friday’s news was even better for Haas, despite the fact his Nascar team co-owner, Tony Stewart, is not involved in the new project.<\/p>\n

“Now the really hard work begins,” Haas said in a statement on Friday.<\/p>\n

Last week, he had warned that the entire project was “up in the air”, including the identity of the team’s 2015 engine supplier.<\/p>\n

“As things go forward it will be clearer, but you can’t really do anything until we actually have been notified that we’re a participant,” he had said.<\/p>\n

He seemed to contradict speculation he could bring the Ford name back to the grid, in collaboration with the former F1 supplier Cosworth.<\/p>\n

“There’s only three engine suppliers, you’ve got Renault, Mercedes, Ferrari,” said Haas.<\/p>\n

“Next year there will be Honda, but probably Honda is not really viable.<\/p>\n

“We have talked to Mercedes and with Ferrari, just preliminary discussions, but we haven’t nailed anything down yet.\u00a0 I guess that would be the next move,” he revealed.<\/p>\n

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Colin Kolles is at the helm of ‘Forza Rossa’, a team that the FIA on Friday said could be next in line for a F1 debut. At a World Motor Sport Council meeting in Morocco, the governing body approved the 2015 entry of Californian Gene Haas’ outfit, called Haas Formula. And the FIA said “further …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[2120,3],"tags":[602,5262,5300,5340,4860,4754,4861,464],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21583,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21582\/revisions\/21583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}