US GP in Austin Discussion and Speculation...

Sorry if this has been or is being covered elsewhere. but will there be any sort of Fchat get together or the like planned for the 2012 USGP? IF it happens of course!

 

more offical cota pics
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Man that is a pants load of progress I'm starting to get alittle more happier about this but as Simon previously mentioned I'm still concerned:

 

Lots of work for a Saturday going on
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God I hope this is a go for 2012. The US does not need another slap in the face like USF1 was! At least we can COUNT on the 2013 GP in NYC since someone like Leo Hindrey is behind it..

 

Has this race been announced officially? I have seen nothing about it on SPEED or in the news papers..

 

Nice pics simpleone,there has been much progress since your pics,the pagoda is now 3 stories and they are working Saturdays.....I know my heavy equipment and there is no doubt the track will be ready and the race is on....... Im a rancher and ranch manager in the immediate area and invite all FerrariChat members to park their motorhomes or travel trailers or tents on my various tracts that total 925acs.All within 30mins to the track.... The "Circuit of The Capitol of The America's is much more easily approachable from the east in Bastrop County where my ranches are.....In fact,you can get to F1 on all back roads and a motorcycle is pretty much mandantory to zip overthere....... There will be no charge for FerrariChat members to park your motorhome,trailer,tent,etc, on my dirt,,,,water is furnished at some ranches,,,,juice is available at some,,,,,,I have Colorado Riverfront on my 95acs and my 157acs.......Firearms and hog hunting is encouraged.....I also have 3 helipads across the street from the Hyatt Lost Pines Resort on my 95... I have a few neighbors on 3acs in subdivisons that will rent their houses for the week.NO PORSCHE ALLOWED,lol

 

May be interested in a home for a week, who would we contact?

 

This is very generous. We will keep you in mind later this year

 

Yes, I am going to use a friends house as the Fchat Corral, at Live Oak and South Congress.

We'll line South Congress all the way north back to Trophies Bar or the Continental Club.
Whatever it takes.

HEB within walking distance to the south at Oltorf.

His new wife didn't know we HAD so many friends!!

 

Here you go:

http://www.nj.com/news/index.ssf/2011/10/gov_christie_announces_first-e.html

 

Hilarious... "Weehawken" soon to be "the new Monte Carlo on the Hudson" thanks to "Hoboken’s famous nightlife".... Yes and Snooki is the next Princess Grace!!!

 

Thanks, they were taken on Saturday afternoon. Would my suzuki FA50 be allowed?? I've been thinking that might be the quickest way to get around over the weekend.

i drive by there just about everyday. Plenty of space in the front yard to park

For those who might have missed the first time I posted it, live webcam of construction!

http://www.speedcitycam.com/

 

I think in the end, we're both going to be proven right:

you: Cota didn't have enough money
me: going to have a race in 2012....

 

No clue on that one. I don't see how they'd paid 3 years of the contract, only to default on the first year. That assumes that there is no 2013 first race clause in there

 

The last six races for 2012 still don't appear to have tickets for sale on the F1 website. China and Bahrain look the same way too and they are at the beginning of the season. All the other races seem to have packages and tickets available via F1.com

 

Elroy Road to be widened, but not before first F1 race

With Austin's inaugural Formula One race back on the schedule for this fall, Travis County and Circuit of the Americas have resumed negotiations over how to split the $5 million to $6 million cost of repairing and expanding about a mile of Elroy Road, a bumpy two-lane county road that leads to one of the track site's two entrances.

Both sides expect to work out a cost-sharing deal before long, but they say the project won't be complete before the first race takes place Nov. 18.

With that and other traffic challenges in mind, F1 attorney Richard Suttle said race officials have two consultants working on a "highly choreographed" plan to efficiently move the 120,000 people expected to attend the race southeast of Austin.

"I don't think it's possible for them and us to get everything worked out and get the (road improvements) designed, permitted and built by the time they have their first race," said Steve Manilla , Travis County's transportation and natural resources director.

Perhaps, Manilla said, the F1 group "could come in here with guns blazing to pay a premium price to get it done quicker, but I don't see that happening."

Travis County, even before the possibility of F1 racing in Central Texas emerged two years ago, had intended to spend about $5.5 million rehabilitating more than three miles of Elroy Road east of Texas 130. But the prospect of heavy traffic on the road — the track's north entrance will be about a mile east of where Elroy crosses McAngus Road — changed that plan.

The track's other entrance will be on FM 812 to the south — both FM 812 and Elroy have direct access to the nearby Texas 130 tollway — and that two-lane highway will be expanded to four lanes by re-striping the existing 44 feet of road, transforming its broad shoulders into traffic lanes.

Both sides now agree that Elroy Road should be expanded to four lanes in the milelong stretch between McAngus and the track entrance — Elroy is already four lanes west of McAngus to Texas 130 — and that a low, two-lane bridge over Dry Creek needs to be replaced with a higher, four-lane bridge.

The two lanes of Elroy, which are rippled because of the unstable clay soils underneath the road, also would be rebuilt and resurfaced.

The county will move forward with the pavement repair on the rest of Elroy Road east and south of the track's north entrance, Manilla said, a project likely to commence later this year. And he said the county likewise will rebuild the two lanes of McAngus between Texas 130 and Elroy.

Race organizers agree — begrudgingly, according to Suttle — that the cost of the repair and widening of Elroy between McAngus and the track entrance should be split. The two sides diverge, however, on how much each side should pay.

The county, arguing that repairing two lanes is inherently less expensive than building two more lanes from scratch and that the new lanes will be on right of way purchased by the county decades ago, wants Circuit of the Americas to pay more than half.

"They've told us, no more site permits until we come to shore on this deal," Suttle said. "I think we're going to get there."

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/elroy-road-to-be-widened-but-not-before-2091924.html

 

I think you are giving Simon too much credit (pun intended)!

 

I don't care who/where the money to complete it comes from, so long as its done, I'll be happy

 

Site is not fully permitted?

 

Thanks Jerome. I can invision after the Canadian GP the circus going to Jersey and then to Austin on their way to Brazil, three races in three-four weeks I would not know how to act lol.

 

If I understand correctly, doesn't the permitting process occur as you approach the actual need to use them? If so, that means they can continue work through the current permits (obviously vertical structure etc.) until the next major "permitted job" comes up, right?