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Circuit of The Americas today announced that it has been declared ready to host the 2012 F1 United States GP by Charlie Whiting, who directs racing, safety and technical matters for the FIA. Whiting visited the Central Texas racing circuit as part of a scheduled pre-race inspection and approved the circuit for “Grade 1” status, hence appropriate to host an F1 race.
I guessed as much.hairy_scotsman wrote:I post on 6 or 7 f1 boards, but I haven't heard of Atlas.
That wall looks like sh*t.
The United States Grand Prix
Tilke’s latest creation, the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas, will host its first Grand Prix in November. On paper, there’s much to anticipate about this new venue, with a Silverstone-inspired opening sequence of fast corners and ample elevation change.
And F1′s return to the States is certainly something to be celebrated. F1′s popularity in America may never rival that of NASCAR or the National Football League. But being a minority sport which in a country of over 300 million people is hardly a bad thing.
And it’s clear from the feedback I’ve read on F1 Fanatic the sport has many dedicated and passionate followers in the USA.
Not posting your other story, HS?“I tried to be candid with my wife and daughters,” McCombs added, “that this would be loaded with issues, warts as I call them, and that it may not be profitable ... I told them I don't believe anyone else can do it or will do it. I told them I would like to do this one-of-a-kind thing.”
Ha! Getting to it. Lots to do. BTW, now I see that the Atlas board you referred to is the AutoSport board. Yeah, i post there, too.Not posting your other story, HS?
The extra dirt work probably has set them back some, but they did weeks of extensive core sampling before they ever started the dirt work at about the beginning of February 2011. Any schedule from June would no doubt have taken all of that into account.Pup wrote:If I'm not mistaken, I think the schedule from last June that Flood is looking at predates all the soil work they found that had to do, which did indeed put them back a few months.
Maybe so. I don't recall that. Do you have a link to a story regarding it? Not saying it isn't so. Just want to read more about it.Pup wrote:Actually, it was the first of October that they said they were abandoning efforts to compact the soil and were instead going to dig it out and replace it. So not only did they have the added time of replacement, but it seems that they wasted a great deal of time trying to make the existing soil work.
It was in this article here...hairy_scotsman wrote:Maybe so. I don't recall that. Do you have a link to a story regarding it? Not saying it isn't so. Just want to read more about it.Pup wrote:Actually, it was the first of October that they said they were abandoning efforts to compact the soil and were instead going to dig it out and replace it. So not only did they have the added time of replacement, but it seems that they wasted a great deal of time trying to make the existing soil work.
At any rate, I don't think John's trying to make the point so much that the track is far behind. Unless there's a whole lot of rain late in the schedule, the track should be fine. I think he's referring more to structures.