US GP

America’s very own F1 team, the much-hyped USF1, may be out of the picture but that doesn’t mean motorsport’s top echelon won’t have a place here in the U.S. Indianapolis hosted its last US GP back in 2007, and North America eventually slipped off the calendar altogether with the demise of the Canadian GP in 2009, but now the F1 circuit is set to return to local shores thanks to a major coup by organizers in Austin, Texas. While New York was largely reported as the firm favorite of F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, Austin will in fact host the new US GP starting from 2012. The latest deal...