{"id":2527,"date":"2010-02-19T06:47:20","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2527"},"modified":"2010-02-19T06:47:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T11:47:20","slug":"we-are-not-gone-usf1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/we-are-not-gone-usf1\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;We are not gone&#8217; &#8211; USF1"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A slight sign of life emerged from USF1 late on Thursday, after waves of reports suggested the new American outfit was set to fizzle before ever turning a wheel.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Amid reports that YouTube&#8217;s Chad Hurley and Argentine driver Jose Maria Lopez were jumping ship to Campos, the team&#8217;s official website also went off the air.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The web server is down and is being repaired as this is written,&#8221; said USF1 on Friday night.\u00a0 &#8220;We are not gone, as many have reported.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Charlotte based team promised to provide more information &#8220;soon&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Following reports that Lopez had been told by a tearful Peter Windsor that USF1 was on its last legs, it then emerged that his management team was busily making other arrangements for 2010 with a series of London meetings.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would like to inform that yesterday, Jose Maria Lopez Sr, together with (managers) Felipe McGough and Victor Rosso, visited USF1 headquarters in Charlotte to be in contact with the team&#8217;s directors,&#8221; read a statement.<\/p>\n<p>Lopez&#8217;s entourage said they left the US &#8220;with a clear understanding of the team&#8217;s current situation&#8221; en route to London.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Arrangements were (then) made to have different meetings; one of them with the managers of the FOM (Formula One Management) whose president is Bernie Ecclestone.\u00a0 The result of the meeting has been positive,&#8221; said the Lopez statement.<\/p>\n<p>Representatives of the Argentine government then made clear to the Clarin newspaper that they have not yet made any payments to USF1.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, in a Europa Press report, the manager of the Motorland Aragon facility &#8211; USF1&#8217;s European base &#8211; said he did not know if USF1 was continuing with its plans.<\/p>\n<p>And former grand prix driver Jos Verstappen wrote in his Telegraaf column: &#8220;If they (USF1) get to Bahrain with two cars, they are so far behind that the world should expect nothing of them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A slight sign of life emerged from USF1 late on Thursday, after waves of reports suggested the new American outfit was set to fizzle before ever turning a wheel. \u00a0 Amid reports that YouTube&#8217;s Chad Hurley and Argentine driver Jose Maria Lopez were jumping ship to Campos, the team&#8217;s official website also went off the &#8230;<\/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":[3],"tags":[5262,264,248,313],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527"}],"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=2527"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2528,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2527\/revisions\/2528"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2527"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2527"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}