God is Great, God is Good

Now we thank Him for Peter Windsor:

Windsor: USF1 about taking America to F1.
Tue 24 Feb, 02:09 PM

Peter Windsor, co-principal of the nascent USF1 operation that has been making headlines of late, insists that Formula One needs to return to the United States, and that his team can help the process.

Speaking to Crash.net, the former Williams team manager admitted that the sport was lacking a vital component having lost both the US and Canadian grands prix in recent years, and insisted that there was a large fanbase that would welcome it back should the situation be reversed in coming seasons.

"I think F1 needs the USA, because it's a huge market for every company that's in F1 - it's the world's biggest market, and still the world's most powerful economy," he pointed out, "As for a US Grand Prix, I think that there will be one in the future, and maybe we will play a small part in regenerating some of that interest in getting a race going here.

"But, ultimately, our mantra is not to try and convert America to F1 - we're trying to take America to F1, rather than take F1 to the United States. We're not trying to convert NASCAR fans to F1, and we never will because it's much too big, but I think that there are a lot of F1 fans in the United States and they will really get behind this team.

"The interest we've had since the news on this has leaked out - and not by us, I have to say - has been absolutely fantastic. We have been inundated with support, goodwill, people applying for jobs... We've had a million hits on a dormant website that doesn't have anything more than a logo on it, that's a million hits in three days, and it just shows how much interest there is in having an American F1 team."

Okay, so I haven't applied for a job YET, but this is totally amazing! Peter Windsor is my interview hero ("Alonso, it looked like you deliberately held Hamilton up in the pits. Tell us what happened.") and I would intern, make coffee, type travel itineraries, whatever he wanted just to be part of this. This is bigger even (yes, sorry) than the presidential campaign.

Yep, I said it.