FIA announces three new teams

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The FIA has confirmed three new entrants will be on the grid for the 2010 season - Campos Grand Prix, Manor F1 Team and Team US F1.

Motor sport's world governing body received 15 applications who all underwent a stringent due diligence process to ensure they have the required level of funding, resources, experience and technical expertise to compete at the highest level.

All three teams will compete under the £40million cost cap imposed by FIA president Max Mosley, and have agreed an engine supply deal with Cosworth.

CAMPOS GRAND PRIX

Country: Spain

Team principal: Adrian Campos

The Campos Racing team was launched in 1998 by former Formula One driver Adrian Campos.

Since that time it has competed in various championships from GP2 to Euro F3, winning six drivers' championships and five team titles, including the current GP2 Series.

Campos Racing is running the Campos Grand Prix team in conjunction with Meta Image, a Madrid-based sports agency which specialises in event management, sponsorship acquisition, PR and marketing.

The Grand Prix team's headquarters are based in Madrid, which houses the marketing and administrative departments.

The technical centre is based at Campos Racing's current headquarters in Valencia, 25km from the Ricardo Tormo race track.

This facility currently manages design and development for the Campos Racing F3, Mexico A1GP and Barwa International GP2 teams.

MANOR F1 TEAM

Country: United Kingdom

Team principal: John Booth

The Manor name came into racing in 1990 when former single-seater champion John Booth decided to establish his own team.

Since that time, Manor's record of success includes some 171 race wins and 19 championship titles in series such as Formula Renault and Formula 3 Euroseries.

Manor is based in the UK across two sites, one in Sheffield and the other in Bicester.

Its technical innovation is characterised by the fact the race cars are designed, tested and refined entirely in the digital domain using the processes originally developed by Wirth Research Limited.

WRL is an engineering company, founded by Nick Wirth in 2003, which specialises in research, development and manufacturing in the high technology sector.

WRL's designs were successful in winning both the 2004 and 2005 Indy Racing League championships, and it has recently produced race winning designs for Honda competing in the American Le Mans Series.

Wirth, who is the technical director of Manor Grand Prix Racing, started his career as an aerodynamicist for the March F1 racing team.

He was responsible for aerodynamic concepts as well as scheming and design of wind tunnel model components for the 1988 and 1989 Leyton House March F1 cars.

From 1993 to 1995, Wirth was founder/owner/technical director of the Simtek F1 team, which started in the 1994 F1 championship.

Simtek Research provided the team with all of the engineering and design of the cars. Wirth went on to become chief designer for the Benetton F1 team from 1996 to 1999.

TEAM US F1

Country: United States

Team principal: Ken Anderson

Team US F1 is a new racing operation, but its directors have many years of motor sport experience and it has already attracted a host of investors.

US F1's team principal Ken Anderson has been involved in motor sport for over 30 years.

His experiences include designing and constructing multiple Indy 500 and IndyCar Series-winning race cars, operating as technical director for the Ligier and Onyx Formula One teams and creating the advanced Windshear wind tunnel.

Fellow team director Peter Windsor has worked in F1 for over 35 years as a journalist, team manager and consultant.

He has worked as the team manager for the championship-winning Williams-Renault team, was manager for Ferrari's F1 chassis and suspension departments and a consultant for F1 drivers Nigel Mansell and Carlos Reutemann.