Litespeed F3 team working with Gascoyne on F1 entry

British Formula Three team Litespeed have announced plans to lodge an entry for the 2010 FIA Formula One World Championship under the recently-announced budget cap rules. Litespeed have engaged the services of MGI Ltd, headed by former Toyota and Force India technical director Mike Gascoyne.

在目前的預算上限的規則下，英國F3車隊Litespeed 宣佈將計劃參加2010年的F1錦標賽。車隊將由前Toyota和Force India技術總監Mike Gascoyne 領導。

“Potentially, there will never be a better time to enter the F1 arena,” said Litespeed team principal Nino Judge. “The FIA has so far not only been bold in introducing the budget cap, but has evidently thought out the long-term prospects of this globally captivating sport. There is space and a need in the arena for independent teams and the technical leeway given to the budget-capped teams allows for a competitive performance within the financial parameters.”

"可能性來說，沒有比現在進入F1更好的時機"，Litespeed 車隊擁有人 Nino Judge 表示。"FIA 不僅引進了預算上限的規則，明顯的還思考了這個全球性令人醉心的運動長遠計畫。這讓獨立車隊在廠上有生存的空間，技術的放寬讓有預算上限的車隊可以在資金考量下還有足夠的競爭力"。

Commenting on Gascoyne’s involvement, Judge added: “We are delighted that MGI is on board with us - their expertise, experience and understanding of potential pitfalls are invaluable to any team to which they put their name and professionalism. MGI will be working to Litespeed’s brief and will act as technical consultants to the team.”

Jodge在Gascoyne的介紹後再補充說，"我們很高興有MGI的加入，他們的專業、經驗和熟悉可能發生的錯誤，對於有他們專業方面幫助的任何一個車隊都是無法估計的。MGI之後會作為車隊的技術顧問"。

Both Judge and Litespeed colleague Steve Kenchington have previous Formula One experience. Judge worked in aerodynamics and structure testing for Lotus from 1989-91, whilst Kenchington was responsible for control systems at Lotus Engineering for 21 years and was one of the originators of their active suspension system.

Judge 和他的合夥人Steve Kenchington 之前都有參與F1的經驗，Judge 在1989 - 91年為Lotus 車隊做空氣力學和結構測試，當時Kenchington 在Lotus 工程部工作了21年，他是負責控制系統，並且是主動式避震系統的創始人之一。

With 13 slots available, entries for the 2010 championship must be lodged by May 29. Confirmation of the successful teams will be announced by the FIA on June 12, by which time Litespeed say they will have a fully schemed F1 chassis.

明年有13個參賽名額，參賽申請需要在五月29號前提出。FIA將在六月12號公佈名單，Litespeed 車隊說那時他們將會有一個完整的F1底盤設計圖。