Liberty Media chief executive Greg Maffei says New York City mayor Eric Adams offered Randalls and Wards Island as a venue for a Formula 1 Grand Prix. Liberty's approach to expanding F1's presence in the United States beyond its single race in Austin has been to select popular destination cities in the country. Earlier this month, Miami successfully hosted its inaugural F1 event while Las Vegas which will join the calendar from next season. But New York was earmarked as a potential hosting city as early as 2011 by then F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone. Although a plan to race along the shores of the Hudson River across from Manhattan was put on its rails at the time, the project was eventually...
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