Multiple rumours have been surfacing about an addition of a Las Vegas GP to the F1 calendar, as final years USGP at Austin drew in huge numbers, and the announcement could also be imminent, says Adam Stern, a Motorsport Journalist
Ever because the launch of the F1: Drive to Survive DocuSeries on Netflix, Formula 1 – the ‘pinnacle of motorsport’ – has seen an enormous improve within the variety of followers and viewership, particularly from the youthful era. USA additionally rode this wave, with the nation seeing important improve within the variety of viewership. Just because the lockdowns had been opening and F1 had began to just accept full capability crowds within the grandstands, final 12 months’s USGP noticed a report turnout of over 4,00,000 reside viewers.
Unsurprisingly, Formula 1 is seeking to capitalize on this, and far to the delight of the brand new F1 followers, we might be seeing a Miami GP this 12 months along with the USGP at Circuit of the Americas (COTA), Austin. Miami is ready to be the eleventh location visited by F1 since its first season within the 1950, and curiously, F1 additionally appears to be returning to Las Vegas subsequent 12 months, over 4 many years after the final F1 race at Las Vegas in 1982 on the automobile park of Caesar’s Palace. The announcement of this GP is imminent, as reported by Adam Stern, a Motorsport Journalist.
F1 will race in Miami this season, marking an eleventh venue ever visited within the nation
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While this doesn’t suggest that one of many 2 present races could also be on their approach out – with COTA being contracted until 2026 and Miami GP for the following 10 years – Las Vegas GP would possibly step as much as be the nation’s ‘flagship’ occasion. According to a report by Las Vegas Review Journal, F1 plans to carry the race within the areas across the Bellagio, with the automobiles racing up and down the Strip.
Sections of the Las Vegas Boulevard might should briefly be closed all the way down to host the occasion. The abundance of pedestrian bridges that stretch throughout the Strip might be nice locations for the viewers to observe the GP from, lowering the necessity for the organizers to assemble grandstands or momentary viewing buildings in that space.
Should Formula 1 have one other Grand Prix in USA? Or ought to the racing sequence take into account increasing to different nations like South Africa, and even India?
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Source: Review Journal, Adam Stern
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