Sunday, March 28, 2010

Meritus bidding to be first Asian F1 team – in 2016


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Meritus Racing is bidding to become the first Asian team ever to join the Formula 1 grid in 2016.

The Malaysian team has garnered a total of 32 Asian motorsport titles in the past twelve years, and has successfully competed in Formula BMW Asia and Formula V6 Asia, as well as competing in the first two editions of the GP2 Asia Series in 2008 and 2008/09 under the Qi-Meritus Mahara banner.

The objective now is to step up a notch to the main summer GP2 Series by 2011 and then F1 five years later, with one of the key goals being to develop motorsport engineering technology and promote and encourage a sustainable motorsport industry in Malaysia.