Joan Villadelprat

Joan Villadelprat is the Spanish team principal of race team Epsilon Euskadi. He worked for McLaren, Ferrari and Tyrrell Racing before joining Benetton Formula. He was formerly Operations Director and Team Manager at Benetton Formula until 1999, he then worked for Prost Grand Prix as managing director. After the closure of Prost Grand Prix he left Formula 1.

In November 2000, Alain Prost employed Joan Villadelprat as his managing director.

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

Joan Villadelprat writes F1 articles for Spanish newspaper El Pais.

Epsilon scandal

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. Juan Jose Ibarretxe was president elected of the Partido Nacionalista Vasco. Basque Nationalist Party

However in June 2016 it was concluded that such allegations were proven false and therefore both Villadelprat and Payne were acquitted.