But Austin, Texas is a long way from home.
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/5/10824.html
But Austin, Texas is a long way from home.
http://www.formula1.com/news/headlin...0/5/10824.html
Woody
96 328is, 99 M Coupe, 04 330Ci
Hopefully Canada can stick around and we can have two GP's in North America.
can't wait for dates to be set so i can reserve my hotel stay wayyy in advance. lol.
Maybe we can swing an Ofest there again.
I didn't understand though, would it be a street course?
In the link, it explains that a facility is being built for the purpose of F1. It will not be another Valencia.Originally Posted by 1996 328ti
I thought so.
A road course can be built in 2 years?
Korea is slamming through production to get their circuit operational this year, so perhaps. I'm a Network Engineer, not a Civil Engineer, so I cant say one way or the other, but F1 has little faith in Korea, already stating the Magny Cours is a fallback.
Seems every track I read about has setbacks due to zoning and permit issues.
With enough money a track and the required infrastructure for an F1 race could be done in a year. I assume the City of Austin has a site in mind and the wherewithall to push through any bureaucratic hurdles. This plan certainly sounds for feasible that last week's rumored use of Monticello Motorsports Club in NY.
Woody
96 328is, 99 M Coupe, 04 330Ci
I think Tilke is going to deliver something along the lines of Yas Marina and not Spa. With 4 days of activities and the race only being 1.5 hours of which 80% is spent watching a screen anyway, one could really care less. It's close to home and is a fraction of the cost of Monaco. Hopefully Red Bull will be resolved by the rest of the teams and multiple tyre suppliers should make it fun. I will take it.
Wow, you guys are talking about stuff way back when. My earliest memory of anything F1 is when my old man was super excited when Ron Dennis dug up Niki and won drivers championship...and that appears to be quite some time after the events you are discussing...
Tilke gets the nod, with a nice write up:
http://www.planetf1.com/news/3213/61...New-US-Circuit
Ah, I'm only 29, so I was barely old enough to remember Prost and Senna's rivalry. I'm just a student of the sport and my family and I are Tifosi. I read everything I can get my hands on about F1 and have an enormous F1 footage collection.
A few things learned from the GP of Turkey:
It can get hot there, hence lolly pop girl fainting...
Vettel is favored by Red Bull, hence the cuddling after he acted like a retard on the track...how about telling him the team is more important than him...
Hamilton's girlfriend sports the IQ of a night lamp, but at least she now knows F1 is coming to the US as informed by the interviewing reporter...
It's less that he's favored, more that Christian Horner knows that Vettel can be emotionally unstable at times. A couple years ago, when Vettel was at Toro Rosso, he wrecked into Webber and was later seen having an emotional breakdown in the Garage, crying unabashed. Horner had to react tactfully, as they're in the middle of a title hunt, McLaren have seemingly closed ranks on RedBull, and he needs his drivers mentally tough. While I agreed with Eddie Jordan that coddling him was very uncalled for, I really dont know what the right move would have been in handling Seb.
To give you more of an idea that Vettel isn't favored, Webber got an upgraded wing before he did.
I think one problem is that he is his own manager. I mean if I was in my early 20s trying to drive at that level dealing with all of that pressure, PR work etc...I would go nuts. He is more mature than most his age but still. He needs someone who can help guide him and verbally smack him around as well...just my opinion...
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