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Supremo 4.10.2.2085 instal the new1/27/2024 ![]() ![]() He was testing for Red Bull at his home race, a week on from his first F1 test in Canada, but his team along with six others would not be racing come Sunday. That ludicrous weekend in Indianapolis 18 years ago was, in his own words, a “super huge” weekend for Speed. That’s very different to when I was in the sport.”īut sometimes to understand the scale of the current highs, you have to revisit the lows of yesteryear. “It’s been a long time coming but there is a noticeable difference when you see people walk around in F1 apparel. “At my kids’ soccer game, you’ll see someone with a Red Bull shirt on,” says Scott Speed, a Californian native who raced in F1 for two years in the 2000s. There are now three races, with this week’s grand prix on the Las Vegas strip following on from a highly successful rebirth of the US Grand Prix in Austin and a street track in Miami.Īfter 75 races at 11 different American venues, F1 has finally cracked the American code. Formula 1 is pushing boundaries and breaking the glass ceiling in a manner which would be unambiguously imposing if it wasn’t in the United States. It is a far cry from where the sport is stateside now. “The future of Formula 1 in America?” asks Brundle. For the sport and its tempestuous 55-year relationship with the US, it is the ultimate moment of absurdity. Out of 20 cars, only six take to the start line. ![]() Because F1’s only race in the land of the free is about to become a farce. A huddle of camera crew and journalists huddle around, eager for answers. What is more unusual is Brundle’s direct, bordering on combative, line of questioning. ![]() And you may well say, nothing unusual about that. Ahead of the 2005 United States Grand Prix, at a circuit modified for Formula 1, ITV pundit and former F1 driver Martin Brundle is interviewing the sport’s long-term supremo and commander-in-chief Bernie Ecclestone on the grid. The setting is the Indianapolis Motor Speedway: home to the world-famous Indy 500 race. Formula 1 now has three races and record interest in the United States –but how have they done it? (iStock/Getty) ![]()
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