Track Announcement - "Circuit of The Americas" Unveiled

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Not exactly a name I would've picked, but at least "Race City" or "Best Buy Raceway" wasn't it.
 
I thought they were "moving on"?

Seems like the type of speech you would hear when it's first announced.

Edit: Why aren't they showing the track!!!

Edit 2: Finally.
 
Every time they say CotA I think of this:
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Anyone else's feed just die?
 
Everyone who quoted me notice I said next year. Anyways, I was really hoping it'd be something bigger then this. Oh well, I guess in this case any news is good news.

edit: I didn't realize the track won't be ready by the start of next season, that's what you guys were telling me.
 
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R1600Turbo
By the way the announcement time in the OP is way off. The announcement is at 4PM Eastern.
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When I read the little ticker during the Grand-Am race, 8:00PM was what it exactly said. Guess they changed it.
 
Moto GP, didn't see that coming. Great to hear though, not only will I be able to drive to a F1 race, but also to a Moto GP race :dopey:
 
Hmmmm how to put this? Great for COTA and Texas, especially with the two Texans in the series! :D Bad for Laguna Seca because they may lose the title of the MOTO GP US GP... doubt they will lose the round though because of the west coast market. Major bad news for Indy because they could potentially lose the race, but not from lack of effort. Give the IMS credit, I have enjoyed going to the MOTO GP all three years, they put on a hell of event, and I know I have this year and probably next year to go to it. I've already scheduled my vacation around it for this year at Indy. I really hope that Dorna starts focusing on the US and go three times starting in 2013 to Laguna Seca in the Spring, Summer IMS, and Fall at COTA. :D :sly: Begin the year at Laguna, have mid-year/summer stop at IMS, and a end of season (if not FINAL ROUND :D) at COTA in Austin, TX. :) Randy
 
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Yeah, Indy (most likely though not for lack of effort!) or Laguna (Talk to the riders they don't like the Cali crowd..) may lose the Moto GP after 2012, could happen. But, Moto GP may make three stops to the US. That's another good possibility. :D ---- Randy
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It's possible. They have 4 races in Spain. If one of them has to go, I hope it's Indy. Laguna Seca is an awesome track. Can't say the same for the indy motogp track.
 
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It's deifnately about Austin, that's for sure. I reckon it's a case of securing another major motorsport event, though I don't know which one. Bernie wouldn't be impressed if Indycar raced there; you can bet the contract with FOM guarantees that so long as Formula 1 races at Austin, it will be the only open-wheel series to do so. MotoGP is another possibility, but there are already two races Stateside (unless they've managed to steal the event away from Laguna Seca and/or Indianapolis). I suppose they could have the Le Mans Series and GT racing coming by.
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I can't decide if the Austin layout looks more like a microscope or a vacuum cleaner.

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They can't. USF1 is banned from competing in any FIA-sanctioned event.
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Why?

I wonder how much track days are going to cost, if they even allow it in the first place. I would love to go drive my car around that track.
 
Rossticles
Why?
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The FIA wanted to show that if you are going to try and get onto the F1 grid you better be serious or don't bother wasting their time. Basically they wanted to make an example of USF1.

USF1 could very well have played a role in the teams that tried to get in this year being denied.
 
I like it. I don’t think it’s pretenious or presumptuous. I admit, I was hoping for something like “Wandering Creek” or a name with the word “Ring” in it (because we have far too few new Rings these days), but it could easily have been much worse. There was the suggestion that it may have been known the “Red Bull Raceway at Austin” because the circuit’s Twitter feed posted a message on the Red Bull feed (personally, as far as evidence goes, this struck me as quite specious), but I like the name “Circuit of the Americas”. It feels right.
 
Like I said in the other thread (forgot about this one) I love the name. It sounds classy and dignified. Okay fine I just like the name because it rolls off the tongue without missing a beat.

Circuit of the Americas. Actually, it reminds me of Avenue of the Americas here in NYC. Further arguments after this post are invalid for that very reason. :lol:
 
Yeah, the Avenue of the Americas was the first thing I thought of, too.

In a way, it's kind of fitting. It might be in Austin, but it's the de facto home race for Sergio Perez, and he has a massive following in Mexico. It's also fairly accessibly for Venezuelans supporting Pastor Maldonado (though whether he'll be racing in 2012 is another question).
 
It's an ambitious and arrogant name. Especially when there are very excellent circuits in the Americas that are quite possibly still better. (Interlagos, Road Atlanta, Circuit de Gilles Villeneuve, etc.)

Hardly surprising though. I just feel like we'll be laughing at it 10 years down the line like what happened with Indy GP.

Then again I am a jaded and cynical F1 fan.
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I just feel like we'll be laughing at it 10 years down the line like what happened with Indy GP.
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Because of the name? I'm sure most people will just call it Austin Circuit or something anyways(Sorry Red, CoTA isn't catching on no matter how hard you try).

The reason the Indy GP was a joke was because the combination of the track just generally not being good for racing combined with a surface that wasn't kind on F1 tires.

I think a proper GP(i.e. not a Roval or shoddy road course) will do marvels for the F1 audience in the US, look at MotoGP, it wasn't long ago there wasn't even a race here, now there's 2(and maybe a third if Austin doesn't replace Indy or Laguna Seca). As well as a few drivers who have realistic chances of winning races and championships.
 
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Because of the name?

The reason the Indy GP was a joke was because the combination of the track just generally not being good for racing combined with a surface that wasn't kind on F1 tires.

I think a proper GP(i.e. not a Roval or shoddy road course) will do marvels for the F1 audience in the US, look at MotoGP, it wasn't long ago there wasn't even a race here, now there's 2(and maybe a third if Austin doesn't replace Indy or Laguna Seca).
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Not really, no.

I'm sure the circuit will do wonders for American motorsport though. Initially.

There were lots of other US GP venues that were thought to be promising as well. Watkins Glen. Detroit. Long Beach. Phoenix. Caesars Palace. (not very promising at all, that one
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) Sebring. Riverside. Indy.

Maybe Austin will be the place they finally get right. Maybe it will bring about a total revolution in American motorsports. I don't know, I'm just a F1 fan. Still going to snicker at the name though. :D

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CarolinaBlue704
I like the name. I'm also glad that MotoGP will be racing there, too.
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They should try and get as many events as they can - ALMS, GT1, NASCAR, WTCC; even GP2 and GP3 if they can somehow manage it - to get as much use out of the circuit as possible. I know V8 Supercars want to push into America if they can.
 
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They should try and get as many events as they can - ALMS, GT1, NASCAR, WTCC; even GP2 and GP3 if they can somehow manage it - to get as much use out of the circuit as possible. I know V8 Supercars want to push into America if they can.
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I definitely believe ALMS and GT1 will race there. I sure GP2 will depending on when the F1 race is scheduled.
 
The problem with GP2 is that it's very expensive to ship the cars and teams out. That's one of the reasons why GP2 Asia was confined to the Middle East - the series had half the number of races as the main series, yet cost twice as much simply because they had to jet around the world. So it would be very expensive (though not impossible) to get GP2 to CotA. GP3 is practically out of the question, though.

That said, if Sergio Perez proves to be pretty successful - and moreso if Esteban Gutirrez gets promoted to Formula 1 in 2012 - then I can see a revived Mexican Grand Prix on the cards funded by someone like Carlos Slim. Elsewhere, Hugo Chavez has talked about a Venezuelan Grand Prix, and there have been noises about resurrecting the Argentine Grand Prix (though for political reasons, it would not be at Potrero de los Funes). If that were to happen, I could see GP2 Asia being replaced by GP2 Americas, with a calendar that took in Argentina, Brazil, Venezuela, Mexico, CotA and possibly somewhere in Canada.
 
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They should try and get as many events as they can - ALMS, GT1, NASCAR, WTCC; even GP2 and GP3 if they can somehow manage it - to get as much use out of the circuit as possible. I know V8 Supercars want to push into America if they can.
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With MotoGP going there it easily opens the door for AMA and possibly even World Superbike. I do believe there will be many, many different classes of motorsport race there now that we know F1 isn't being greedy with the track.

With so many Mexicans in the San Antonio-Austin area it wouldn't surprise me if the spectators at the inaugural USGP there are half Mexicans there to see Sergio.
 

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