Joan Villadelprat

Joan Villadelprat i Bernal (born 15 November 1955[1]) is the principal of the Spanish race team Epsilon Euskadi.

He worked for McLaren, Ferrari and Tyrrell Racing[2] before joining Benetton Formula.

[4] Villadelprat was instrumental in Epsilon Euskadi's failed attempted entry into the 2010 Formula 1 season.

[6] Epsilon Euskadi ee1 founder Joan Villadelprat and Mark Phillip Payne were taken to court in Vitoria (Spain) under allegations of corruption and negligent management of public funding granted by the Basque Country government when Juan Jose Ibarratxe was president.

In June 2016, the Spanish Civil Supreme Court gave Villadepprat a guilty sentence and demanded Villadelprat pay a fine of 899.263 Euros for his responsibility in the bankruptcy of the Firm Epsilon, a Formula 1 aspirations firm.