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US GP will be success - Andretti

" itemprop="description"> Mario Andretti, America's last Formula 1 world champion, believes the revived United States Grand Prix will be a long-term success. The 72-year-old, champion in 1978, says the new event in Austin, Texas, has the ingredients needed to become a fixture on the calendar. 'It needed something like this [circuit], to be an event you can look forward to every year,' he said. Andretti said the race would prove that there was a fanbase for F1 in the US. Apart from a period through the 1970s and into the early 1980s, when there were successful grands prix at first Watkins Glen in New York State and then Long Beach in California, F1 has always struggled to...
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