Formula 1 coming to Austin, Baby!

Looks like Peter Windsor is back on SPEED. Link

Peter is good and generally knows what he is talking about. USF1 was a chance to build a team from scratch. The fact that the money guys held back on him should not be held against him.

I suspect he will be used by SPEED and Fox as a channel to explain to the US masses what F1 is as an introduction to the USGP.
 
88, that was spectacular. I thought it was a little hokie at the beginning but it all was okay as it went on. There are some fantastic shots of Austin and the area. I love the slow motion shots of the car peeling out on concrete. The way the smoke looks is so cool. Thanks for this. I was wondering when it would come out and now I know.
 
Just wanted to let everyone know there's an F1 watch party down at Six Lounge in the Warehouse District at 1:30 on Sunday.

Rumor on the street says that Red Bull will be hosting so that they can celebrate Vettel's clinching of the championship tomorrow. There's only a few ways that race can finish that would end with him not clinching it. I highly encourage anyone interested in F1 to attend.
 
Dewbrewer, the New Jersey race will be a second race in the US. As soon as they officially announce the race we should know the name.

As long as the people involved with the USGP in Austin live up to their obligations, the United States Grand Prix will remain in Austin for at least 10 years.
 
Last week, Autoweek had an article that was very skeptical of progress at COTA. There are rumors of a promoter change that might put the State funding in jeopardy, plus problems with delayed releases of capital. Is it possible this doesn't get done?
 
RoughedUp, everyone will need to get used to F1. Every new race isn't going to happen until it happens. It is a very tough media who will be super critical of everything until they are proven wrong.

Yes there have been self-inflected problems and the State money never should have been taken, but as long as the construction remains more or less on pace, everything should be ok. The international media will have a field day (think of the worse press you have ever read about an event and triple that) with the traffic and lack of a people movement plan for the first couple of years, but once a traffic plan is in place with road improvements, that will all go away.

Never say never, but with permanent structures coming out of the ground with track work continuing it is hard to see how the race will not go forward.
 
Bernie is, has always been and will always be a ****. Even if we get this race and it happens, he is a ****. F that guy.
 
FTP/COTA should have never sought public finds in the first place, so once the pissing contest ends, everything should be fine. If a resolution isn't reached soon, look for FOM and FTP to be hit with a criminal fraud charge plus a large civil suit.
 
This is not good. Austin may be getting the shaft, and royally.
What are the odds the track survives this situation, and we actually host F1?
 
It all depends on McCombs and Epstein. If they decide to buy their way out, the track will be finished and the race will be held. On the other hand, if they let their ego's get the best of them and decide to teach FTP and FOM a lesson, they will find satisfaction, but no track and no race.
 
I suppose the $25 million would be discussed behind the scenes, but if the race were held I don't think there would be any doubt there would be a huge, easliy quantifiable economic benefit for the Austin area's businesses.
I see that it is wise to not pay the taxpayer dollarss in advance, but assuming the event actually occurs, it should be a sound economic investment for the state, one which returns more taxpayer dollars than the amount spent.
The accounting should be above board and well-publicized for the naysayers who don't want the state to aid this venture. Of course, if the whole thing falls apart, it will be a real bloodbath of lawsuits and bad press for F1.
 
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