Hi guys,

I love race tracks and love speculating about where the USGP should be should it return to the USA.

I'm really interested to hear where you guys think the USGP should be staged?

Nominate one dismissing all logistics and infrastructure concerns and one with realistic potential.

I'll kick it off:

Dream: Road America
Real: Road America

 

road atlanta

 

That was my second choice.

I have never been to either Road Atlanta or Road America, are either of them set up to host F1?

 

Road America would be cool but there is no way it'd ever come there. There really isn't any sort of "pit" compared to the current F1 tracks. It's just s trip of track with a concrete barrier that the teams have to jump over to work on cars. No actual garages. Also, there are way too many trees and most corners don't have large enough run-off areas to handle the speeds that F1 cars run at. Then again, there aren't any long straights either so maybe the cars won't get going that fast?

I'd love to see F1 go to Laguna Seca. That's about as close to an F1 circuit as you're going to find in the US these days, imo. I think pit lane and the garages are still far too small to accomodate 30 F1 cars though.

 

F1 has a habit of putting the US GP in absolutely the worst possible places. The Caesar's Palace parking lot, Las Vegas in the middle of the summer? The city streets of Phoenix? WTF are they thinking?

I'd love to see F1 at a good circuit like Laguna Seca, Watkins Glen or even some place that made financial sense like Auto Club Speedway (Fontana) or Homestead (Miami), but I think we all know they'll just set up a crappy slalom on the pockmarked city streets of Branson, Missouri and then declare it a failure because "Americans don't like F1" when nobody shows up.

 

How about Miller Motorsports Park?

 

Road Atlanta moreso I'd say. Don Panoz has $$$.

 

Truthfully, F1 has to go someplace it can fill the stands and take great photos, and with such a huge South American and European market in South Florida, the streets of downtown Miami are the best possible venue.

 

^^^Now you're thinking with your dipstick!

It's a shame the track would be so flat though.

 

Laguna Seca... /thread