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iSport clarifies F1 entry rumours
27 April 2009The iSport team has cleared up rumours suggesting that the team may be considering a move into Formula One next year, as the FIA proposes the option of a budget cap. The Norfolk-based team is currently running in the GP2 feeder series, and took Timo Glock to the title in 2007.
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iSport International first entered GP2 in 2005 with a line-up including future F1 driver Scott Speed, before taking the title with Glock in 2007 and the runner-up position with Bruno Senna last year. The success of two years ago also saw the outfit claim the teams' championship, and completed this year's GP2 Asia Series in Bahrain on Sunday with drivers Giedo van der Garde and Diego Nunes.
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Recent reports in the German media, however, have placed the team on the shortlist for Formula One entries of 2010, the first season to see the introduction of the governing body's spending limit. "When the budget cap becomes official, we will then have a look it," team boss Paul Jackson told GPUpdate.net. "There's no way we would enter F1 without the budget cap; F1 teams are spending hundreds of millions, and there is no way iSport could do that - but when there's a budget cap then, sure, F1 would be an interesting possibility."
Having run Bruno Senna as lead driver last year and with the Brazilian now desperately searching for a route into F1, could his former team be the way forward? "Someone asked me during the weekend if I would like to have Senna as a driver," Jackson continued. "If I had an F1 team sure, I would like to have him. But like I said, it's too early to talk about iSport entering F1 next year, let alone talking about which drivers we would have."
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