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USF1 Signs Robby Gordon
USF1 Signs Robby Gordon
Robby Gordon will leave NASCAR for the new USF1 team for the 2010 Formula One season.
USF1 co-founder Peter Windsor said: "The opportunity to sign a veteran talent like Robby Gordon was too good to miss."
The move will leave a open seat in Robby Gordon Motorsports Jim Beam Toyota. Gordon assured the team will operate as usual and he already has a "very short list" of drivers in mind to fill the seat for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.
Gordon, a 2-time winner in the CART series and no stranger to open-wheel competition said: "This is a great opportunity for me and I'm really looking forward to the first time I will be able to drive a Formula One car. To join USF1 is an amazing challenge and experience which I plan to fully enjoy. However, my short-term aim is to concentrate 100% on winning the 2010 world championship."
Gordon's move to Formula 1 comes as a huge surprise. As the only owner/driver in NASCAR's premier series, Gordon is accustom to being challenged: "I've won in every series I've driven in. A Formula One win would be a nice addition to the trophy case."
About Robby Gordon Motorsports
Based in Huntersville, N.C., and owned by Gordon, will enter its fifth season of competition in 2009 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and will continue to operate successful racing programs in the SCORE International Off-Road desert series, The Dakar Series and the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
About USF1
Based in Charlotte, N.C., USF1 was founded by F1 veterans Ken Anderson, former technical director at the Ligier and Onyx teams and open-wheel racecar designer, and Peter Windsor, former Williams team manager-turned-pit lane reporter for Speed TV's coverage of F1 racing.
Robby Gordon will leave NASCAR for the new USF1 team for the 2010 Formula One season.
USF1 co-founder Peter Windsor said: "The opportunity to sign a veteran talent like Robby Gordon was too good to miss."
The move will leave a open seat in Robby Gordon Motorsports Jim Beam Toyota. Gordon assured the team will operate as usual and he already has a "very short list" of drivers in mind to fill the seat for the 2010 NASCAR Sprint Cup season.
Gordon, a 2-time winner in the CART series and no stranger to open-wheel competition said: "This is a great opportunity for me and I'm really looking forward to the first time I will be able to drive a Formula One car. To join USF1 is an amazing challenge and experience which I plan to fully enjoy. However, my short-term aim is to concentrate 100% on winning the 2010 world championship."
Gordon's move to Formula 1 comes as a huge surprise. As the only owner/driver in NASCAR's premier series, Gordon is accustom to being challenged: "I've won in every series I've driven in. A Formula One win would be a nice addition to the trophy case."
About Robby Gordon Motorsports
Based in Huntersville, N.C., and owned by Gordon, will enter its fifth season of competition in 2009 in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and will continue to operate successful racing programs in the SCORE International Off-Road desert series, The Dakar Series and the NASCAR Nationwide Series.
About USF1
Based in Charlotte, N.C., USF1 was founded by F1 veterans Ken Anderson, former technical director at the Ligier and Onyx teams and open-wheel racecar designer, and Peter Windsor, former Williams team manager-turned-pit lane reporter for Speed TV's coverage of F1 racing.
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Permalink Reply by Kevin Meyer on
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It's feasible that this could've happened... RG does have a good racing pedigree! Nice one, wondering who was gonna write a prank topic.. well written!
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Permalink Reply by Delanie on
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It would have been more convincing had he caught the headline about the name change a few weeks ago. It's now USGPE (US Grand Prix Engineering) because they can't use F1 in the name.
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Permalink Reply by Christina A on
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nice april fools' joke!!
i'm laughing but now that the idea is out there, would he?
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Permalink Reply by Baja Girl 77 on
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I'm confused i don't know if this is a april fools joke or if this is really real! Sounds Convicing
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Permalink Reply by Fire Instructor on
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OK. Now I'm laughing. Now that my heart has restarted....
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Permalink Reply by Walt Pendleton on
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I think Robby should go wherever he would be the most successful. If It was F-1 great. I would like to see him in a Henrick's car with a superteam crew chief. Then he would have no excuses, just like Junior have no excuses now.
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Permalink Reply by Rube on
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?????... look at what the Brawn team did last weekend... they went out and set on the pole and won the race... 1st season, 1st race... it can be done!
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Permalink Reply by Mike Taylor on
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Yeah definitely after that first race winning pole and having 2 cars on the podium for a team that is a little over a month old. Thats absolutely amazing, apparently if Brawn designs your cars you can run win. Even better than the teams (Mercedes) who's supplying your motors, they have to be scratching their heads. Get Brawn over here to build some RGM cars! Even though they are cookie cutter cars now, but thats a whole other convo.
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Permalink Reply by JoCo on
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Yeah but to be honest, Honda had been developing that car for over a year...it's not like a throw-together team by any means
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This is true, but you have to admit that it's impressive to do what theyve done (granted it's only 1 race into the season) I don't see a Nascar team doing that as fast as they pulled EVERYTHING together and of course F1 is so very technical. Im impressed but we will see, there is a long way to go.
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