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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.
Why would you need high capacity crane for building cladding?richard_leeds wrote:Topping off marks the completion of the structure (they have has reached the top). The crane will still be needed for cladding and fitting out such as lifting in air conditioning plant and elevator machinery.... as well as removing that tree!
Pup wrote:Here's the scoop on the likely sales date and prices for general admission tickets, plus a few stats on ticket sales to date...
http://www.statesman.com/sports/formula ... 03252.html
Those grandstand prices are about twice what I remember paying for an Indy weekend pass. But it's not outrageous.General admission and grandstand tickets for Austin's first Formula One race are not yet on sale and probably won't be until June, around the time of Montreal's Grand Prix. Geoff Moore, head of the track's marketing and sales, said those tickets would be sold online, with all likely to be three-day passes.
He said prices for those tickets have not yet been set, but they could be similar to Montreal's. At the Canadian Grand Prix this year, three-day passes are $558 for premium grandstand seats, $265 for the regular grandstand and $123 for general admission.
Moore said the sale of personal seat licenses has been brisk.
"We're in kind of a dead sprint," he said.
According to Moore, six senior representatives have been selling the personal seat licenses since mid-February, and in the past week 14 junior sales reps have been through training and are now working the phones from a row of cubicles at the circuit's office on Congress Avenue. They're going through 11,000 potential customers from around the U.S. and the world who earlier placed their names on the track's waiting list.
"It will be all 50 states and several countries," Moore said of the personal seat license customers.
Moore said slightly fewer than 10 percent of those on the waiting list were from foreign countries and 39 percent were from Texas. Californians account for about 15 percent of the list and Floridians about 8 percent.
Moore said the track has commitments for all 29 of the circuit's permanent suites. There are also 40 temporary trackside suites, similar to those found at professional golf tournaments, and he said there were commitments for about 35 percent of those suites.
AFAIK there is nothing new in it. It is a bit like a comprehensive report. There is still some time to see how the law suit goes and it looks like all parties are going to do just that, wait and see.Pup wrote:Interesting article on the MotoGP deal...
http://www.motorcycle-usa.com/839/12770 ... inues.aspx
Also, on the track surface and homologation dates...My opinion is that we will be ready earlier than proposed - maybe by late September. The Americans have put a lot of big machinery into it. What we did in India with many people, we've done here with machines.
So, looking good.The track surface will be the last thing we do because we'll still have heavy traffic on the site, which could destroy it. ... We can start to lay the last layer in July-August. We should get the FIA homologation in September.