Bernie Ecclestone has hinted he wants many more American races on his F1 calendar. After a five-year absence from the country, F1 has returned to the US in 2012, this weekend christening the brand-new and bespoke Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
And Ecclestone wanted two American stops on next year’s schedule, until plans for a street race amid the Manhattan skyline were put on hold for financial reasons until at least 2014.
“It’s a world championship, so you need the US,” the F1 chief executive is quoted by German news agency DPA.
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