F1 USGP To Be Held In Austin TX 2012-2021

The race circuit is supposedly going to be build "near the airport". So, it will be a dedicated track. That is good, as I despise temporary road circuits - nothing more than glorified parade laps you ask me. Belle Isle, Long Beach, Miami, Monaco - boring "not racing" racing. For that matter, NASCAR at Sonoma fits the category, due to the narrow track. I don't foresee success for this venture. Austin may have pretensions, but the F1 crowd won't like the lack of amenities - much like the location of the French GP at Magny-Cours. As for Bernie - the man is doing his level best to kill the "sport" of F1, with his crony-in-stupidity, Max. Not all their fault, as F1 isn't the only series to build cars that can't pass. Yeah, I'm looking at you, IRL. Perhaps the promoters think they can peel IRL away from TMS and get them to run at the Austin (vapor)circuit? Bruce

I have to agree with the Cavanaughs...Austin has grown but the thingns that make it wonderful are the opposite of what the F1 crowd would like. We're simply not that kind of sport... From: txannie1@hotmail.com To: info@fullthrottleproductionslp.com Subject: Austin TX Formula 1 Race Date: Wed, 26 May 2010 11:46:16 -0700 While you talk about of all the wonderful things that makes this city so great these same reasons are also why I think many Austinites, aside from the politicians, will think your move, and a Formula 1 race, is not so great. It is counterintuitive to call Austin the greenest city in the US & then have something like a Formula 1 track built here. As international as Austin is and welcoming to visitors, Formula 1 does not belong here. If it were an international event such as cycling, i.e. along the Tour de France type event, that makes more sense. Just where do you plan to build this facility and what enviromental impact will you have in the area & surrounding neighborhoods? How much land, currently 'countryside' will be eaten up, plowed under cement to make way for the track? No, Formula 1, going by feedback I'm hearing, is NOT welcome in Austin. If Texas has such wonderful large metro areas, move it to Houston or Dallas, cities that have already devastated their metro areas so badly by their sprawl, should have plenty of room to accommodate your elitists' sport. Austin's appeal is slowly starting to diminish because of traffic, crime rates rising in particular burglaries and violent crime, and as the eyeball of the nation, and now the world seems to become more focused here. With that comes the blight and loss for just such the things that make it great, a pleasant, still-small community atmosphere, healthy living, an envirmental conscious, and an outward look to the rest of the world. While we welcome what makes the community tight, we don't that which makes the community blighted. We like to Keep Austin Weird and so say 'NO' to Formula 1.

Never happen. Unless there's a local Texas oil sheik willing to put up the buckaroos as a pet project, this is just another Bernie negotiating tactic. He strings along some small-timer who has no hope of raising the capital in order to pressure the real players to cough up money and improvements. When Bernie gave the British GP to Donington Park a couple years ago, Silverstone bent over backwards to appease him. And lo and behold, Donington went busto and we're racing in Silverstone again. I just don't think Indy cares enough to play that game this time around.

I'm in San Antonio and I can't wait for F1!! A dream come true!!! I was really dreading a trip to Montreal for one race. I seriously doubt any race event could be held in downtown Austin. That town is WAAAAYYYY to small for that. Shoot, I35 sucks any time between 7am and 10pm. One can imagine the headache if they closed roads for an entire weekend. Austin is no desert. Lush and fairly green. And as for ironing out the hills.. I say leave them!! Elevation changes make for great racing!!