A Grand Prix for the Big Apple: New York

As the Albert Park circuit prepares for the second Grand Prix of this season, Bernie Ecclestone, the chief financier of Formula 1, acknowledges that he is already working on the future.

Very often, the most extravagant rumors circulate about the upcoming selected circuits, a surprising idea is expected to emerge quickly:

Organize a Grand Prix in New York.

Bernie Ecclestone thus declares to Gazzetta dello Sport:

I’m trying to organize this race for 2012.

He already depicts this phenomenal event as a postcard:

The GP would take place facing Manhattan, in New Jersey, with the skyscrapers in the background, all just fifteen minutes from the heart of New York. It would be wonderful.

It should be noted that the United States has not hosted a Formula 1 race since the Indianapolis GP was discontinued in 2007.

Interviewed by the Italian press, Ecclestone reiterated his desire to see a race organized in Rome, while specifying that Monza will remain on the calendar:

Monza is Monza, it’s the place of the Italian GP, Rome will be something else…. I hope nonetheless that we will complete this project. The promoters seem really determined. I repeat, once again, that there has never been any question of removing Monza from the calendar, just as choosing to alternate between these two races.

Formula 1 needs to reinvent itself to attract interest. What better way than to choose world-famous or completely unusual locations.