US F1 will make their official track debut in Alabama in February after being given a special dispensation by the FIA to test on home soil.

The outfit was the granted the exemption as it is one of four new teams to enter Formula One this season and the only one not based in Europe.
""The first thing that needs to be said is that if this was 2011 and we were an existing team we would be at the first test,"" sporting director Peter Windsor told the official F1 website.
""But because we are a new team and have started from nothing, the first time we will run the car will be in the United States at the Barber Motorsport Park in Alabama,” he added.
(Source: Skysports)