A year after making a splashy return to the United States, Formula One's American dream has yet to come true with the glamour sport unable to captivate a market it has long coveted. While motor racing fans across the globe planned their Sunday around the US Grand Prix, for Americans it was just another event on an action-packed day of National Football League (NFL) games and NASCAR. The Circuit of the Americas carved out of the south Texas scrubland, one of the most popular stops on the calendar for paddock regulars and praised by drivers, teams and spectators alike, was supposed to provide the launching pad for a new era for F1 in the US but has so far failed to take off. When Formula...
Full Story »