[nitivearchit]

The only reason there should be a USGP at Indy is to show the Americans what real machines can do. Without exact estimates, I reckon an IndyCar would be 5-10 seconds behind an F1 car at the infield, & on the oval the F1 car would just tear the competition apart.

Well an IndyCar team operates on a budget of $5 million per year, and Toyota F1 operates on a budget of $400 million per year. So what you get from a direct comparison would be how you can spend $395 million and only get 5-10 seconds for it.

Indy always had a healthy crowd, but unlike other F1 tracks, all the viewing areas are stadium seating. Even if 125,000 (roughly the seating capacity of Silverstone or Hockenheim) people show up, the place still looks empty on TV. The opposite effect would be Sebring which has very little permanent seating. 100,000 people could show up there and you would never notice it on TV.

[PriernPayorse]

American racing (sadly)

To be honest, the more important goal for North America should be to (re)secure the Formula One race in Montreal. You could work on the infield roval at Indy for a decade and it still wouldn't hold a candle to Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, IMO.

Or work on the infield and all the rest of the track for two hundred years, and it would not hold a candle to L Seca.....and that ain't opion, that is FACT.

so to make my dream come true, each night I will light a candle and in maybe two hundred years, it will come true....

So much for the "purists" of f1......if it were not for the sponsors and the ambience of the off-track stuff at Monaco, that track woiuld have been gone a long time ago....