Haha, I actually had Sebring or Silverstone in mind (Airfields) -- what was bad about Belle? The Belt Pkwy is jammed nearly all the time anyway...
Elkhart Lake would be perfect if there were...50 more good hotels...but the run off areas would not pass muster with the FIA people.... oh well....
I love RA. The one thing better than Road America is the corn on the cob at Road America. I hope it is still available race day.
no cars on island, had to pay to take a bus, horrible for spectators - the main straight along the water was not accessible, you had a main grandstand (which is a waste in an ALMS race) or a fence at a turn, heard negative comments from a major auto mfg that had a hospitality area (couldn't see a thing!), heard comment from a team owner about the bad transition of cement/asphalt, we watched the race from the Corvette display on their big screen tvs! bad combination ALMS with IRL as the ALMS transporters were off to the side - I don't like the combo, ALMS is a far better series - went once, that was enough. Carol
If not Indy, then the track from the Rolex endurance race at Daytona. Would be perfect: Infrastructure of the track is there, infrastructure for the fans (hotel, airport) is there and the whole thing is as close to Europe as possible. And it has a prestigious name: Daytona
What I'm kind of hoping, is FOTA will REALLY realize NA and have more than one setting: Remembering the SA many races held also. This could bring back the old days again...something F1 has been missing. Asia might be a nice spread to seed for nether year, but has little to do with bottom line sales....NA, CA, SAmerica Australia and other nice places with multiple sites would rock.
+1 I *love* Infineon, but I reckon (FWIW) it would need more than "a few mods"..... The speeds they would reach there would be amazing, which is all good, but the run off areas to make it "FIA compliant" at those speeds would be immense..... They'd have to move serious dirt and the "environmental studies" would take forever [Bruton (sp?) is still looking for the frog that he claims cost him ~25MM IIRC!] Then the highway system would need some serious improvement - Everyone coming up/down 101 would (again, IMHO) render it about as "fan friendly" as Silverstone....... OTOH, the evil pygmy is talking Donington in the UK, using *buses* to get 100-200K people in and out, so it's possible [100K people in the rain are just slightly less pissed off than 100K in the *heat* up there!] All, again, IMHO Cheers, Ian
Let's see, 100k fans, in the heat, certainly not drinking, certainly having civil discussions regarding Button vs Massa, vs Hamilton...ya' let's put Holligans into a closed container over bumpy roads and see how that goes. Bernie seriously needs to promote the venue as a sport, not a cash cow....but, that would mean he would have to go, and only a passing would take him out. Perhaps an entirely new track.
Probably won't ever happen in Vegas, but with their economy down the toilet, gotta wonder if'n they'd be a bit more receptive now days. Having F1 cars blasting down the strip in front of the Bellagio would attract WORLD-wide attention, and frankly, would be something no other spot in the U.S. could duplicate(and few elsewhere in the entire world). The publicity generated would be absolutely enormous. Too bad it ain't gonna happen...
We need Long Beach or a track somewhere in southern California. We're the automotive capital of the US, not Detroit, and the world most likely. You find more makes & models of cars here than anywhere else in the world. Jay Leno's garage alone shows that.
This is now almost certain to happen now that I'm moving. At this point I don't care where it happens as long as they bring the series back to the US.
