Anthony Hamilton Is Seriously Working on a New Open-Wheel Series

“It’s in the name,” the website begins by saying.

HybridV10 is the name of a venture Anthony Hamilton has apparently been working on quite hard undercover, and the plan has now gone live. He wants to bring back “real racing,” like all motorsports old guys do, but this plan actually sounds reasonably serious. It’s a spec open-wheel series with two classes, V8 and V10, and it will all be very centrally managed and well supervised. He wants the competition to be all about the drivers and the experience to be all about the fans. They’re even throwing around the word “festivals” to describe the events.

I love this. It doesn’t even sound like it’s trying to compete with Formula 1, which has long since chosen to deliberately leave this kind of thing behind. And clearly, the father of one of the greatest to ever do it will have seen it all by now and know what needs to be done differently. I just have no idea whatsoever how realistic this is. He says they have backers, and I hope they come through, because if so, this will be the true racing-first series the incumbents need to see in order to put their existing products into perspective.