NASCAR co - owner registers interest in entering a new team in Formula One . Gene Haas says he has responded to the FIA 's call for new teams in 2015 or 2016 . Of the trio , two are still racing in their current guises -- Caterham and Marussia . Haas co - owns a NASCAR team with NASCAR racer Tony Stewart . The last U.S. funded F1 team was in 1986 under the Lola - Hart moniker .
NASCAR co - owner registers interest in entering a new team in Formula One . Gene Haas says he has responded to the FIA 's call for new teams in 2015 or 2016 . Haas co - owns a NASCAR team with NASCAR racer Tony Stewart . The last U.S. funded F1 team was in 1986 under the Lola - Hart moniker .