Sporting director of the new USF1 team has revealed that the FIA has given the team special dispensation to make their debut test on home turf in America. He said:

“Because we are a new team and start everything from zero the first time we will run the car will be in the United States at the Barber Motorsport Park in Alabama, the circuit that was nominated by the FIA for us.”

Windsor said that USF1′s debut test will take place “at the beginning of February”.

He said the special dispensation allows for three tests in the US, before the car is shipped to Spain “to do some testing there before we fly out to Bahrain”.

On the subject of driver selection, Windsor continued:

“We are very close to announcing our drivers. We’ve been talking to some great racing drivers over the last couple of months — and it is very difficult choosing from the good drivers that are around.

“I think there are still a lot and the difficult thing is to choose only two out of ten that are available. It’s a difficult job and I hate having to do that. We have not signed our forward deals yet in terms of the contracts, but we are pretty near to announcing.”