US F1 to be confirmed Jose Maria Lopez as its initial driver for its primary F1 racing battle at a press event in Argentina on Monday. Jose Maria Lopez, an earlier Renault F1 test driver, revealed some months ago that he had safely a US F1 placed provided he set up the essential financial support. Miguel Mattos set to Reuters that the contract was now complete.All things have been settled and the official declaration will be made on Monday, Miguel Mattos said to the news agency..
Formerly part of Renault's driver development programme, Lopez drive’s in Formula 3000 and GP2 between 2004 and 2006, taking a success for DAMS at Catalunya in 2005.
He following returned to race in Argentina, and has just claimed back to back titles in the local TC2000 series as well as winning last year's Top Race V6 championship and final as runner-up in the Turismo Carretera series. Lopez also had a handful of races in Europe in 2008 as part of the ACA Argentina Ferrari project in the FIA GT Championship.
