Anthony Hamilton's V10 racing series

This is a new racing series suggested and championed by Anthony Hamilton, the father of Lewis Hamilton.

It wants to bring authentic racing back where the pilot has control and the technology is kept to a minimum. And the aspiration V10 Hybrid engine is brought back with it's great sound and performance.

Yet, it will require a lot more than just a concept, partly flawed from the beginning, and a basic website to bring it to life.

Mr Hamilton proposes to have 12 races in the inaugurative season with 2 series into one. 24 cars powered by V10's and 24 cars powered by V8's with each team competing in both series.

Thus unnecessarily further complicating an already near impossible project.

Very few manufacturers will feel themselves called upon to re-invest in the development of V10's with little commercial opportunity in today's car market.

So, the more practical solution is to concentrate on a V8 series only and to further simplify the workload by having 12 teams with 2 cars each. No professional racing team will want a one car racing series as the risk of non-finishers is too high and the workload and budgets too high to risk a DNF in several races.

The 12 race limit in the inaugural season makes sense, as does the concentration on racing at circuits now not hosting F1 races.

FIA and Liberty Media ( F1 and FE rights holders) will already be trying to stop this proposed series in its tracks as it does not want the added competition. They don't want another A1 debacle.

Another good idea of Mr Hamilton is to concentrate the working ateliers of all teams in one central location. So that team can share, to an extent, common working facilities.

Part of the concept is that the basic car chassis will be shared by all teams and the base engines will also be the same for every team. Thus making the role of the driver more central again.

So, there are valuable components present in this concept, only whether it can gain traction with racing teams, investors, team owners and manufacturers, I think unlikely.

The last 3 months since the press presentation there has also been very little progress which makes the proposed 2028/2029 inaugural season already near impossible. There is no need to further complicate the establishment of this series by imposing yourselves a tight time schedule. So, 2030 should be the inaugural season's targetdate.

Mr Hamilton will have to find the pre seed money to establish a team of at least 10 top racing experts who each contribute their network and expertise to the proposed series. Together they have to find the seed funding, investors, series sponsors,potential engine, tyre manufacturers and chassis supplier, negotiate with the circuits, find the teams and excite the media, drivers and fans to adopt this series.

At this point I estimate the likelihood of this series happening at less than 1 %.

I have seen worse odds..but not often.