I think this says a lot about American drivers and F1.

"It´s not going to be easy, because it´s all a financial question. There are many drivers from Europe with full budgets to take to Formula One Teams like ours, but no Americans, with any budget at all. Because America itself hasn´t done a good job by looking after his young talents. Not many young Americans want to go to Formula One, instead they all want to go to Nascar. Because it´s very difficult to raise the money. And the reason for that is, that over the last ten, fifteen years the American IndyCar Teams, which is the number one single seater Championship in America, have done a very poor job of nurturing American talent. They tend always to run drivers from overseas to bring money to the teams, usually with unpronounceable names. For me it´s astonishing that an American Championship like that hasn´t had a self imposed rule, which says that each team must run at least one American driver. Because the way to build us here as up is to have big American stars."

speedyt - 12 September 2009 02:32 PM

With Reed Sorenson now out of his Petty contract, don't be surprised if he is linked with the USF1 drive... I'm sure the team would love to have the NASCAR connection.

Well, I'll say welcome. Here's to many more posts.

speedyt - 12 September 2009 02:32 PM

With Reed Sorenson now out of his Petty contract, don't be surprised if he is linked with the USF1 drive... I'm sure the team would love to have the NASCAR connection.

That is to odd for comment.

I thought this might be of interest to all. I found it on the F1 boards.

http://f1.gpupdate.net/en/news/2009/09/24/usf1-announces-f2000-as-feeder-series/

Enjoy