F1 Fanatic

I am an American. I love F1. I am originally from NY and I’m already making plans for the race. The question is, will Americans take to F1 like they do Nascar? The answer… Not NASCAR fans. They are too proud and too redneck for F1, but that doesn’t matter. Yes, NASCAR the most popular but Americans are passionate about all racing. I would love to see an American team or great American drivers but I don’t need to to love f1 and I know I’m not alone. Watkens glen was in the middle of nowhere and the brickyard has too much history with Indy to compete. The NJ GP will fresh and cool as hell! I look at it like this… Let the south have their NASCAR, us Yankees will marvel and embrace F1 after they hear the scream of the engines echoing through the buildings of midtown manhattan. Priceless yachts filling the Hudson, celebs everywhere, race weekend in the city that never sleeps! Sparking a new generation of enthusiast. Maybe, just Maybe, a kid from the Bronx or Brooklyn might take a brake from dreaming to play for the yanks and turn to dad and say, “one day I’m going to drive for prancing horse”.

lets hope texas can do and india and korea and have the track ready hours before FP1

After the stop work order went out, I think Texas would like to have the circuit ready well in advance of the race.

The thing to remember about all this discussion of “can F1 be popular enough in the states as compared to NASCAR?” is that NASCAR has MANY races all the way across the country. If you miss one, you can make another and probably not have to travel too far. NASCAR’s easy availability means it can support (and needs) that huge following.

Now let’s look at the other end. F1 -even if it gets both races- will only have 2 opportunities to be seen within the country. That’s every F1 fan in this nation who wants to see the races in person (not counting going to Canada) filing in to these two venues. Are F1 fans not as numerous here? No, but obviously we don’t need to be. The demand is there and giving it in such limited amounts means there’s a good chance those races could be very well attended.

We’re here and I’m telling you, they’ll get lots of us to show up just by giving us a race. It’s more in the hands of the venue to handle their finances correctly and not piss off Bernie.

I really DO wish to keep spa in the calender… If spa is there, then there’s no problem for me…

I honestly think there’s a snowball’s chance in hell of Indycar and F1 working together in the near future. They’ve long been considered competition for one another. Things could always change as time goes on, but it’d be like asking Pepsi to lend some of it’s celebrities to Coke so they can talk about what a great product Coke is.

And yeah, there’s not even much point in “competing” with NASCAR since it’s so far removed in so many ways. If anything, I would expect F1 to be more likely to team up with NASCAR (see: Lewis Hamilton and Tony Stewart some months ago) to bring each other attention.

when the races are mostly in europe,there are almoast no advertise of such products or brands

That’s because there’s only one team – Ferrari – that accepts money from a tobacco company. McLaren don’t have West sponsorship anymore because Vodafone is their sponsor.

if they had chance and the regulations and law would allow such brand,they would have it,100%

No, they wouldn’t. For one, there’s no money in tobacco sponsorship these days. Look at the actual sponsors on the grid – energy drink companies (Red Bull), mobile phone providers (Vodafone, Claro), oil companies (Petronas, PDVSA), financial instiutions (Santander) and car manufacturers (Caterham, Lotus) are the big sponsors are today. And secondly, even if laws worldwide were relaxed to allow full tobacco sponsorship, most teams would not accept money because of the social stigma of taking money from cigarette brands. Ferrari were officially known as “Scuderia Ferrari Malboro” until the British Grand Prix, when they changed it to “Scuderia Ferrari” because they were concerned about the image it produced. So even if the laws were to be relaxed, the teams would not accept sponsorship from tobacco brands.

Of course, tobacco laws won’t be relaxed, so none of this matters.