Ian Bailey

It’s been announced that a few more teams have entered into the F1 2010 season, LiteSpeed GP, Campos Meta Racing and Team Superfund. Doing a quick google, you will discover these teams don’t even have a homepage that is highly ranked, so who are they?

Let’s start in reverse, with Team Superfund. The team is backed solely by Austrian businessman Christian Baha and will be managed by former Williams, Benetton and Honda test driver, Alexander Wurz (wikipedia). A step in the right direction for Alex maybe? A few former F1 drivers have had success in management, most recently, Gehard Bergher at Torro Rosso, before he sold his shares back. The Team Superfund cars will potentially be using the Cosworth Engine and rumours are they will be sharing technology with a UK competitor before establishing they own facilities if the venture works.

Team Superfund have had a sponsorship venture into the sport for a few years, sponsoring Spyker in 2007 for example, but this will be their first physical venture into the sport.

Campos Meta Racing is a combination of the Campos Racing team using the Meta Image. The team will be managed by former F1 driver, Adrian Campos (wikipedia). More recently, Campos Racing has been a GP2 team, called Campos Grand Prix, and won the constructors championship in 2008 with drivers Vitaly Petrov, Lucas Di Grassi and Ben Hanley. So this shows their pedigree, but will they have the facilities and drivers (of which we know nothing), to make the step up to formula one?

LiteSpeed GP is a Formula 3 team that are finally making the big jump up to formula one. The team is owned by Nino Singh Judge and Steve Kenchington. They don’t have any championship victories under their belt, but they have developed their own car from scratch and are currently competing in the 2009 championship, although they aren’t doing fantastic. Their F3 car currently uses a Mugen Honda engine, so maybe this could be a way back into the sport for Honda, as an engine supplier rather than a team, which could pave the way back when the financial crisis resides.