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."

Your Comments

deepwater330

"If ever proof were needed that many contributors to PF1 have not yet learned how to separate issues. They hate Mosley so much that they can only associate the entry of new teams with Mosley�s agenda and have created an enormous and childish conspiracy theory around USF1. These malevolent and spiteful thoughts now extend to Cosworth who clearly are deemed not only guilty by association but also incompetent. Marvellous isn�t it? These people are unable to cast their mind back to the days when Cosworth were a revered participant, second only to Ferrari in engine victories. Admittedly the Keith Duckworth days are no more but show some respect to an organisation with a justifiably proud track record. What are those against new entrants going to do over the next couple of years when we see the likely exiting of Toyota, Renault and BMW, to name but three? Not only could it happen; there is a strong chance that it will. "

Houghy

"....and this is coming from a team that isn't even on the interweb yet!!"

shlick

"just cant imagine google wanting to advertise on an F1 car, especially a brand new F1 team running a generic cosworth. Google while being one of the only if not the only company that has more money then they know what to do with, is also one of the few companies if not the only one that doesnt need to advertise outside of the net. I hardly think the guy that helped create youtube has anything to do these days with google advertising. Slow news day me thinks, the most boring racing season in F1 history was saved with some interesting news during the Max - FOTA war, its gone back to the boring 09 racing season."