Ecclestone Raises New Jersey Doubts
We sure hope this majestic setting overlooking the famed New York City skyline comes off as planned. America needs a second F1 race like the early 1980s. Read More …
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F1A&G posts tagged America
Dan Gurney’s American Triumph At Spa
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. Read More …
Phil Hill Profile
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. Read More …
Grand Prix of America test run — Weehawken, West NY
“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. Read More …
Seb & The New York Skyline
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. Read More …
Circuit of The Americas PSLs
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? Read More …
Driving the Formula 1 Circuit In New Jersey
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. Read More …
F1 Is Coming to New Jersey
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. Read More …
Don’t Believe New York GP Rumors
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. Read More …
Texas Lawmakers Say State Cannot Afford F1
The group behind bringing Formula One racing back to America next year — which has audaciously named its very much under-construction track the “Circuit of the Americas” — is facing fresh criticism from skeptics who say the cash-strapped state of Texas cannot afford the ambitious scheme. Read More …