Hopefully Haas will use a USA made engine in a few years...Cadillac would be a great choice.
Entering F1 is like buying a lottery ticket: Rule 1: You can't win the big one if you don't play the game. Rule 2: You can spend all your money doing it and still lose. Rule 3: You might spend 1 dollar and hit the jackpot. Rule 4: Repeat 1-3. Sure F1 is hard, difficult, impossible, etc, but I still admire the guy for giving it a shot. 5 years from now we'll know if he's a proverbial backmarker (see Caterham, HRT, Marussia), up to midfield, or a front runner. Either way, he's a business man that has taken risks before, and is just taking another one. See rule #1 above. If you had his resources of time, money, employees, experience, wind tunnel, etc, what would you do? option 1: Just keep doing NASCAR option 2: Expand into another new challenge like F1 option 3: Retire and sit on the beach with a bottle of rum for the rest of your life. Of options like that, I'm certainly glad there is someone willing to take on #2.
Only ford would make an ounce of sense to develop another F1 engine. None of the others have a foot in Europe.
+1000, perfectly said! He has achieved all that he ever wanted and with great success. There is always a bigger challenge to conquer and this is it. Why the need to blast him? On the contrary, we should welcome the idea. Yes the chances of succeding are not on his side, but that's the challenge. The more difficult the more better. These days companies from a wide variety of industries have sites all over the world. Yes there are issues: time zone, language barrier (not in this case), logistics, but they still thrive. F1 has been traditionally and historically centered in the UK, so there will be a tendency to be put down. Let's get open on this and welcome the idea. I for one will be cheering them every step of the way. Let's give them a bloody chance please.
Having an American team on the grid will be awesome. Can you imagine having our National Anthem playing at the end of the race? When was the last time that happened?! Andretti in the 70s? I wasn't even alive! I know it's a lot to ask since they haven't even built a car yet, but let's get the patriotic juices flowing and back our national team like the Italians.
Follow the money is right, and the marketing/sales machine nascar has-even in its early years-cannot be dismissed. Haas is in the midst of this right now and he's no dummy-this talk is all fully scripted and looks like he's getting the exact response he wants if he wants to fully fund an F1 effort
....not coming before 2016. He announced that they need another year to get everything ready. It is not even clear, whether Dallara will build the chassis. That would only happen if Haas gets Ferrari engines and sets up his Euro headquarters in Italy. SPEEDWEEK Formel 1 - Gene Haas: US-Team kommt erst 2016
3 teams came in 2010. 1 is gone and from the other two the highest finish is 11th place. It'll be a while before you'll hear the American anthem playing. It'll be easier to find an American and put him in todays Mercedes.
We already have an American in the wings. Alexander Rossi is set to test FP1 for Caterham in Montreal. Also, you don't hear the American Anthem played at the end of a race for the Constructor- just the winner's country.
