The Virgin Racing Formula 1 team was officially launched in London .300 official guests attended at the Louise Blouin Foundation in Notting Hill, the London district. The Rick Parfitt Jr band provided the icebreaker before the place rocked to the electrifying sound of a F1 car courtesy of a collection of up and coming musicians in performance electric guitars.
Richard Branson and the Virgin Racing administration team of Nick Wirth, John Booth and Alex Tai outlined the dream for their lean, mean racing machine and revealed the team’s dynamic young driver line-up. next to Timo Glock were two new additions to the Virgin Racing even and Brazilian Lucas di Grassi and GP2’s Portuguese revelation Alvaro Parente.Virgin Racing also welcomed no less than nine new associates to the team.