INTERVIEW: How COTA helped F1 regain its U.S. credibility

At 14:35 on 17 June 2007, the checkered flag fell on the final United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis and Formula 1’s relationship with America couldn’t have been much lower. The tire debacle of two years earlier had proven too tough to recover from, and with the only American driver on the grid – Scott Speed – soon to lose his seat after having failed to score a single point, interest was slumping. So when the concept of Circuit of the Americas in Austin was raised, with the idea of it becoming the home of F1 in the U.S., it…

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