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Originally Posted by bjohnsonsmith
There is Montreal. Bernie wants a massive revamp of the track facilities for F1 and it will cost a lot and if they don't cough up Montreal could lose the race. IndyCar on the otherhand doesn't need all the bells a whistles Bernie wants for the F1 Circus.
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Getting Montreal onto their schedule would be big for IndyCar. And the local audience would love the racing, no matter if there's an F1 race on that track or not.
That may or may not be different at COTA in Austin, TX, where F1 currently holds its USGP.
But IndyCar at COTA won't happen anyway because of a veto from Texas Motor Speedway.
However, if the "American GP" of F1 at Weehawken/New Jersey was still on the cards, I feel the 2 series should team up and run events on the same weekend, if possible, as the NYC market is precious and such a "double bill" would surely be able to convince more people to come trackside. Have the IndyCar race on the Saturday after F1 qualifying in the afternoon, and the F1 regularly on Sunday. You'd just need to make the pitlane wide enough so that the wall to protect IndyCar's pit equipment and mechanics can be installed non-permanently between the garages and the pitlane itself.
The IRL and F1 have been partners before so why not do it again?