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USF1 boss downplays YouTube rumours

Monday 6th July 2009

USF1 co-owner Peter Windsor has refused to confirm whether YouTube will be sponsoring his F1 team when it takes to the grid next season.

USF1 is one of three new outfits that will enter F1 in 2010 and preparations for their debut are well underway, including the search for sponsors.

And, according to speculation, one potentional sponsor is YouTube as Windsor and his USF1 co-owner Ken Anderson entertained YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley at the British GP.

"I did see Chad at Silverstone, he was around and it was good to see him there," Windsor told SpeedTV.

"People have tied him to our team, which is incredibly flattering, and who knows?

"We've got plenty of announcements that we'll be making shortly, and we'll be announcing the identities of all of our investors and quite a lot of other stuff as well, really exciting stuff.

"At the moment all I can say is that we've just got our heads down doing what is immediately important to us, which is building the team now that we've got our entry.

"But we have got a great investor group and it's going to take us into the 21st century in a way that you guys have never imagined."