Thursday, November 15, 2012

In America

This weekend is the Formula 1 United States Grand Prix!!!!

Why is this worth writing about?  Because it's been five years since the WORLD'S top racing platform has been in the USA.  Think about it.  It's a world championship series that hasn't even been running in the US.  These cars are incredible.  The drivers are incredible.  Take a few minutes to watch the race this weekend and notice how fast the car can change directions.  The driver has to be 100% focused every second or he will end up off the track.   The technology they use to build and drive these cars is the complete opposite of what the folks in NASCAR do.  Heck, NASCAR cars don't even have speedometer.

Americans haven't loved F1 as much as Nascar but that hasn't stopped tracks from being developed to lure the high tech cars back to our soil.  This weekend's race will be in Austin, Texas at a brand new track specially built for Formula 1 racing.

In the next year or two there will be another race in America.  It will be called the Grand Prix of the Americas and will be in New Jersey.  That course will be a street circuit with Manhattan as a backdrop.

With just TWO races left in the season the top two drivers are only separated by ten points.

Now if we could manage to get an American driver in one of those cars, maybe we would see some more Americans get excited about the sport.

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