The Campos Meta 1 name is to disappear from later this week when the team’s new owner Jose Ramon Carabante confirms that the team is to become known as the Hispania Racing F1 Team. Carabante owns a property company called Grupo Hispania, which is derived from the Roman name for the Iberian Peninsular. The company has interests in Spain, various European countries, plus Brazil, Mexico and the United States. The cars will presumably be called Hispanias, which will underline the Spanish nature of the team – which may be important in the future when it comes to raising money.
There is talk that new team principal Colin Kolles will be drafting in Belgian Jacky Eeckelaert to run operations. He is currently employed by Kolles in sports car racing but has long had ambitions to play a bigger role in F1. He is a former Peugeot engineer who went on to work for Prost Grand Prix, Sauber and Honda. Eeckelaert was due to commentate at some F1 races this year with Belgian television.
The team is expected to unveil its livery and second driver later this week with the word being that Bruno Senna will be joined by India’s Karun Chandhok.
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Dear Joe,
Could Alonso also disappear over to Hispania once he screw things up at Ferrari at the end of this year?? What do you think??
Small correction: It’s “Hola”, not “Ola”!
At last, great news from the FIA-selected Spanish F1 effort… I still wonder why Max Mosley elected to go with Campos rather than Epsilon Euskadi (Joan Villadelprat’s organisation, with proven car building skills and a handful of F1 old-hands on board!)…
Chosing Campos over Epsilon Euskadi did make sense. Dallara also have proven car building skills and the Campos organization was top class in GP2. They eventually failed in terms of finance but that could have happened to Epsilon Euskadi as well. The FIA may deserve the bashing in regards to US F1. But when it comes to Campos/Epsilon, I doubt we can fault them for not seeing the future. Shit happens.
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Keith Wiggins operation when he had Mexican shareholders was/is called HVM as in Hola Viva Mexico.
please explain.
Great name! All the best to the team!
USF1 shut today and laid remaining employees off.
Lacking courage, the two founders were not present…
Probably because Epsilon didn’t plan to use Cosworth. Nevermind they have a running factory with a wind tunnel and all related facilities needed to run a sensible F1 operation.
But will they make Bahrain?
Well, USF1 have folded up their tent and slipped away into the night.
Lessee… Mike Coughlan dumped by Stefan tomorrow or Thursday, other teams give approval Friday or Saturday (Ferrari leaving everyone hanging until the last minute and probably extracting other concessions from the FIA), shakedown at the Nurburgring on Sunday, and then in Bahrain by next Thursday.
…or something like that…
And in typical American fashion, USF1 has shuttered its factory. Par for the course in recent automobilia here in the states.
Hispano-Suiza would be better.
I hear they are relocating to Germany.
USF1 shut today and laid remaining employees off.
Lacking courage, the two founders were not present…
That is appaling. Gutless management.
They did not even have the deceny and good grace to be present at the last act of the company.
Says it all really.
It would have been nice to see Lopez get the 2nd seat instead of Chandhok (if they were the only two choices, of course).
Anyway, good to see that this entry will make it on to the grid. I imagine they will be terribly slow at first, but at least they made it.
andrew, great name…? HRT?