After a 9 year absence grand prix racing will return to the USA. The track is on the site of where the indinapolis 500 is held, and uses one of the banked turns and the straight from that race in the grand prix track. The rest of the grand prix track is lots of short straights and slow corners. I honestly fear the worst when this grand prix happens, not because it will be dull, (in fact i think it will be very exciting) but because I fear a driver could be seriously hurt or killed in the race. This is because the cars will be running with minimum downforce, therefore when the cars reach the banking they could be running at 200mph, if a driver makes a mistake or the car has a mechanical failure, the driver could head straight into the wall (there is no gravel trap or tyres) at 200mph, and formula one cars are not designed to hit a wall at that speed. I am sure that the FIA has fully considered all of this, otherwise the track would not have been picked, but the fact is that since the indycar series split, the indy 500 has been losing popularity and money. I am sure that the owner of the track looked for a big race to be held there (nascar races there now as well) and saw F1 as the easy way to make some money back. Dont get me wrong I welcome a return to usa for gp racing, but not in this way.
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Jul 12th, 2000
