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Originally Posted by Andrew Rudolph
There are alot of better courses in america as far as the track goes, but facitlites and ability to control a volume of people that an f1 race draws are two huge limiting factors. I doubt daytona would spend money to help bring f1 to thier track (im sure they are happy with the amount of people coming to thier races) but I would venture to say that if say Panoz was contacted about road atlanta he would be interested in throwing some money at his track.
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The best road course in America would most likely be at a permanent road course and not Indy or Daytona. I don't think any other track in, America atleast, could handle the shear volume and type of fans that F-1 brings. The talks of it going to Vegas I find totally ridiculous. I can see where they would be going to where more people are and a bit more fun of a city, but you would be sacrificing legacy, tradition and Las Vegas would have to come up with a lot of money. Plus Las Vegas would have F-1 garage paddocks that they really couldn't use much other then when F-1 is there, and most likely that would be on the street in some high price district.
If F-1 doesn't renew with the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, I don't foresee them coming back to the states for a few years at least. The F-1 garages at Indy can easily be used for some other cars, not IRL or NASCAR though, too many cars not enough garages. They could use the garages as a tactic to get a CART road race at the speedway so the two open wheel series could once again function as one, and make a more powerful series.
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