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[Stealthgate007]

Welcome dwightschultz! I'd Like to see Laguna Seca, but thats just me dreaming.

[headless]

Welcome dwightschultz! I'd Like to see Laguna Seca, but thats just me dreaming.

Keep dreaming

[dwightschultz]

Laguna Seca is a nice track. Would be cool if F1 could visit there. Maybe Bernie should look into doing a tour of a different circuit each year. He could start at Indy and work his way west.

You can dream all you want but I would bet you right now that if we get a 100% US team we will see the return of a US track. Bernie has always been after the US market and when he smells blood he goes for it!

[Jabberwocky]

Are there many tracks in America that offer what Bernie wants from tracks? F1 car on the Corkscrew that would sort the men from the boys

[Stealthgate007]

Laguna Seca would do that indeed!! I just don't know if there is enough in the general area to support Laguna Seca, like hotels, night life, and all the pomp and circumstance, fanfare that Bernie is looking for..

[headless]

It would be good though.

[Rivelution]

Laguna Seca would do that indeed!! I just don't know if there is enough in the general area to support Laguna Seca, like hotels, night life, and all the pomp and circumstance, fanfare that Bernie is looking for..

There is more than enough hotels, ans especially the night life in Monterey, Carmel, Pebble Beach, etc. The problem are the facilities and the length of the track.


... I think a good American driver would be Carl Edwards, or maybe Graham Rahal?

[Stealthgate007]

Laguna Seca would do that indeed!! I just don't know if there is enough in the general area to support Laguna Seca, like hotels, night life, and all the pomp and circumstance, fanfare that Bernie is looking for..

There is more than enough hotels, ans especially the night life in Monterey, Carmel, Pebble Beach, etc. The problem are the facilities and the length of the track.


... I think a good American driver would be Carl Edwards, or maybe Graham Rahal?

Yeah I was hoping to get your take Riv, as you are from that area. I did Google Sat Map it, and just west is Monterey and the ocean.

[bud]

Laguna Seca would do that indeed!! I just don't know if there is enough in the general area to support Laguna Seca, like hotels, night life, and all the pomp and circumstance, fanfare that Bernie is looking for..

There is more than enough hotels, ans especially the night life in Monterey, Carmel, Pebble Beach, etc. The problem are the facilities and the length of the track.


... I think a good American driver would be Carl Edwards, or maybe Graham Rahal?

Kyle Busch seems pretty fast on road courses albeit in NASCAR, i rekn he would do alright in open wheelers if he is fast in road races

[Gert]

I'd just like to invite our North American based fellow forumers to consider the idea of a British organisation deciding to set up a Nascar team based in the UK but with offices in Mexico.
So, with that in mind, just how seriously do you really think anybody is taking "USF1"?

[EwanM]

Surely a few IRL racers would fancy their chances?

As for Circuits, there isn't really any that can realistically stage a GP apart from Indy.
It's a pain and Id much prefer Laguna, but it would cost a fortune to upgrade it.

This goes against everything i've said about new circuits on the calendar... but I would support F1 "stealing" Long Beach from the IRL.
That would be amazing!

I feel if we get a race in the US a team would be an option Gert, but I think it'll not work unless we get a race and mass exposure.
Yes F1 is the biggest TV show in the world (whenever those Ringy things or that leather ball goal thing aren't on) but it still isn't in America - though that could surely improve... I hope so! As this board proves there are already a number of American Fans with a vast knowledge on the sport, but we need to break away from a niche market over there.

[Gert]

If & it's a very big if, there was a single organisation anywhere on the planet seriously planning to get into F1 they'd have bought Honda by now - on a buy now, pay later concept if they hadn't got the cash upfront.

If there were 2 serious organisations Torro Rosso would have new owners by now.

I suspect that Williams & concievably Force India would welcome serious financial input in exchange for part ownership.

USF1 is about as real as the returns offered by Bernard Madoff.

[Stealthgate007]

If & it's a very big if, there was a single organisation anywhere on the planet seriously planning to get into F1 they'd have bought Honda by now - on a buy now, pay later concept if they hadn't got the cash upfront.

If there were 2 serious organisations Torro Rosso would have new owners by now.

I suspect that Williams & concievably Force India would welcome serious financial input in exchange for part ownership.

USF1 is about as real as the returns offered by Bernard Madoff.

As I said previously, I hope they don't buy Honda or Torro Rosso, and just build from the ground up. If they bought Honda, they would be buying Fry and Brawn. What ever you think of the two personally, I'm sure they are quite expensive and the team has a lot of people that would have to be enharitted in order to make it work.

To me I'd rather hire a new relatively small staff and outsource some components instead of trying to take a very large unsuccessful organization and try to pair it down and try to figure out where things went wrong in the first place.

A fresh clean look... Think about it.. Can a championship car and driver be put together for under 50 million year? Can a car be built for less than 1/2 million dollars???

[Rivelution]

Laguna Seca would do that indeed!! I just don't know if there is enough in the general area to support Laguna Seca, like hotels, night life, and all the pomp and circumstance, fanfare that Bernie is looking for..

There is more than enough hotels, ans especially the night life in Monterey, Carmel, Pebble Beach, etc. The problem are the facilities and the length of the track.


... I think a good American driver would be Carl Edwards, or maybe Graham Rahal?

Yeah I was hoping to get your take Riv, as you are from that area. I did Google Sat Map it, and just west is Monterey and the ocean.

And 5 minutes east of Laguna Seca is Salinas which is where quite a bit of the motogp people stay. I honestly think the location is perfect, its just the facilities thats the problem.

[headless]

... I think a good American driver would be Carl Edwards, or maybe Graham Rahal?

Scott Speed

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