The boss of the new US F1 team has hinted he could consider veteran Austrian former grand prix driver Alexander Wurz for a race seat in 2010.
“We have spoken to Alex,” Peter Windsor said. “Any new team coming into Formula 1 needs to look at drivers with experience.
“Alex Wurz could perhaps be able to operate at our rate of learning.”
Wurz has competed in 69 grands prix, racing for Benetton from 1997-2000 before spending five years as a test driver for McLaren and then Williams, who gave him a race seat for 2007.
“We have said several times that we want to run Americans, but our first year in F1 will be critical in a number of ways especially in this compressed time zone.
Jacques Villeneuve - F1 world champion in 1997 - has voiced his interest in securing a drive for 2010 but former Williams team boss Windsor believes his team might not match Villeneuve’s expectations.
“Jacques is a former world champion and he comes in with that persona and that largesse and it could be that for a team that needs to grow at it’s own organic rate Jacques would come in with his own rate of expectation and they might not match,” he said.
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