Canceled last year due to the pandemic, the United States Grand Prix is back at sold-out this weekend. A growing craze in America which results in the addition of a race in Miami next year.
Formula 1 returns to American time. Two years after the victory of Valtteri Bottas, the great circus of F1 returns to the Grand Prix of Austin. Its bumpy and anti-clockwise layout is not always to the taste of the paddock. But it is a strategic necessity for the staff of the main event of motor racing.
«F1 in the United States is a top priority for us. We are focused on making F1 permanently visible in this country“, Explained Stefano Domenicalli, the new boss of F1, in an interview with The team. The addition to the 2022 calendar of the Miami Grand Prix, which will be held on May 8, justifies this desire. History of weaving a little more its web in the country of Uncle Sam.
In the land of stock cars
«Formula 1 in the United States is not crazy love, notes Jean-Louis Moncet, flagship commentator of F1 for TF1 then Canal +. The the most popular race there is the stock car (production cars), with the Nascar championship.
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