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Posts Tagged ‘America’

Posted by glennm on 31 August 2012
45 years ago American Dan Gurney drove his own F1 car to victory in the Belgian Grand Prix at Spa-Francorchamps. It remains the first and only US-built machine to win in the modern Formula One era.
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Posted by glennm on 19 August 2012
In 1961 California's Phil Hill became the first American to capture the Formula One World Championship, diving his iconic Ferrari 156 "shark nose" machine.
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Posted by glennm on 13 June 2012
"I think this place is just exceptional," said Sebastian Vettel, Formula One's 24-year-old German superstar, during a news conference in Weehawken to promote the 2013 Grand Prix of America overlooking the New York City skyline.
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Posted by glennm on 13 June 2012
Sebastian Vettel's visit to the Grand Prix of America in Port Imperial, New Jersey, where a new street circuit GP is set to debut in 2013.
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Posted by glennm on 22 January 2012
Home to the new USGP at Austin, the Circuit of The Americas — fighting the calendar to finish track construction and highway improvements by November — says it will start accepting personal set licenses (PSLs) this month. Is there any other F1 venue that has adopted a PSL model for seating?
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Posted by glennm on 23 December 2011
These videos offers a very different view of the layout for the street circuit (still unnamed) in New Jersey — informally dubbed the Grand Prix of America — overlooking the Hudson River and New York City skyline, where the F1 circus will descend in 2013.
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Posted by glennm on 22 October 2011
Citing anonymous sources, the Wall Street Journal reports today that after years of speculation, F1 will schedule a race in the New York City metropolitan area next season.
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Posted by glennm on 03 August 2011
They said last year that New York had a term sheet executed with Bernie Ecclestone's Formula One Management for a similar race one hour from Manhattan. That was a week before Austin emerged, out of the blue, with a definitive agreement for the U.S.. Grand Prix.
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