One of the men behind the ambitious project to create an American Formula 1 team has played down the team’s recent name change and says its plans are progressing well.
The team, which officially unveiled its plans at the end of last month, has dropped its original ‘USF1’ moniker and logo at the behest of Formula One Management and its website now redirects to www.usgpe.com.
Team co-founder Peter Windsor told itv.com/f1 that the change of name was not a significant setback and said a permanent name and logo would be confirmed shortly.
“It’s no big deal,” he said.
“Our original logo was just a placemark for a work in progress.
“Now that we’re in business, we need to conform with FOM rules and of course we’re delighted to be doing that and will be announcing an official logo shortly.
“As for the [interim] site, this was just one of many domain names we registered about five years ago.
“We’ll be back soon – bigger and better.”
Windsor added that the team has been delighted by the response from fans and the media since news of its plans first broke a month ago.
“We were completely overwhelmed by the reaction to our announcement,” he said.
“The latest figures show that over 4,000 articles about us were published worldwide in February alone.
“Who said that no one was interested in Americans in F1?”
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