The failed 2011 candidate Durango and partner Villeneuve Racing are still defiant on entering Formula One next season, despite the FIA turning their bid down in early September.
The partnership immediately announced their intention to buy an existing team, with the likely candidates including Hispania, Sauber and Toro Rosso.
Ivone Pinton, the man behind Durango, has yet again expressed his interest in buying a current team as a way into the sport.
“At the moment we are in contact with a couple of Formula One teams to either become partners or to buy them,” he told 422race.com, “Having said this, if it won’t be this coming year, it will be the next. In the meantime we will do something else.”
Meanwhile, Pinton confirmed that Villeneuve is still eyeing a race seat, using Michael Schumacher’s current comeback as a supporting factor.
“The first option is logically F1. We started to do this, Villeneuve wants to do this and he would like to race for a couple more years. He said, ‘If Schumacher is racing, I can do it as well, because I am three years younger than him.’
“At the moment he’s still well as a person, he’s strong, he looks like a 15-years-old. He’s totally involved in this project and phones me five times a day. He’s a good person and I like working with him very much.”
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