{"id":3581,"date":"2010-03-22T06:42:20","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:42:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3581"},"modified":"2010-03-22T06:40:39","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T10:40:39","slug":"epsilon-euskadi-to-apply-for-2011-f1-debut","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/epsilon-euskadi-to-apply-for-2011-f1-debut\/","title":{"rendered":"Epsilon Euskadi to apply for 2011 F1 debut"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">The Spanish outfit Epsilon Euskadi will apply to become F1&#8217;s thirteenth team in 2011.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>With USF1 failing to race this year, groups interested in filling the American team&#8217;s spot next season have been invited to express interest along with a EUR1000 fee by 15 April.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Full applications will need to be submitted by the end of June, followed by &#8220;due diligence leading to a decision in July 2010&#8221;, the FIA announced.<\/p>\n<p>Epsilon Euskadi, involved in junior single seater categories as well as Le Mans with a prototype car, applied to make its F1 debut this year but was beaten to the places by USF1, HRT, Lotus, Virgin and Sauber.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We were ready in June (last year), we had the financial support, but for whatever reasons we were not chosen,&#8221; said team boss Joan Villadelprat, who for decades worked in F1 with McLaren, Ferrari, Benetton, Tyrrell and Prost.<\/p>\n<p>He added: &#8220;We will reopen the project and my job is to re-gather all of the support that we had.\u00a0 If the FIA gives us enough time to be ready for next year, we can be in F1.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>It is believed that amid the last team selection process, Epsilon Euskadi was a frontrunner throughout.\u00a0 Also with credible projects were Prodrive and Lola.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Spanish outfit Epsilon Euskadi will apply to become F1&#8217;s thirteenth team in 2011. \u00a0 With USF1 failing to race this year, groups interested in filling the American team&#8217;s spot next season have been invited to express interest along with a EUR1000 fee by 15 April.<\/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":[1093,5262,5300,1094],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581"}],"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=3581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3582,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3581\/revisions\/3582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}