Talking solely to Autosport at a IWC Schaffhausen basketball occasion forward of the Miami Grand Prix – which featured seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton and Hollywood film stars James Marsden and Simu Liu – Coulthard mentioned that the never-raced road monitor venue in Weehawken, New Jersey, may full F1’s roster of US races.
Coulthard drove components of the Hermann Tilke-designed three.2-mile Port Imperial structure, which used streets overlooking the Hudson River, in a Crimson Bull RB7 present automobile in 2012. The occasion, beneath the ‘Grand Prix of America’ banner, was included within the 2013 F1 calendar till a contractual dispute ended the undertaking.
He says the spectacular location could be the “excellent place” for F1 to go subsequent in america, because the monitor’s elevation change of 150 toes would have been one of many best on the calendar.
“We tried to get a race in New York a number of years in the past at Weehawken,” mentioned Coulthard. “I keep in mind operating in one of many Crimson Bull present automobiles. I drove a part of the part of monitor within the F1 automobile and it was unbelievable.
“Reverse Manhattan, there was a bit that made Eau Rouge at Spa appear to be children’ stuff! In the event that they ever had been capable of reignite that plan proper there, I believe that may be the proper place.”
Christian Epp, Director Circuit of Americas Tilke GmbH with David Coulthard
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Coulthard believes there stays room for yet one more occasion in america, even with Las Vegas becoming a member of Austin and Miami on the calendar in 2023.
“I believe we are able to go to 4 races right here in future, when you think about the land mass,” he added. “And that’s the utopian dream – to interrupt America.
“They’ll all have their very own flavour, they must. State to state in America could be very completely different, so race to race – every occasion has to mirror that.
“Austin is what we’re used to – a correct monitor, so we flip up and go racing. Miami is a little bit of a hybrid monitor, and Vegas is a playground for adults. Being in a metropolis, slightly than at a venue, the occasion will undoubtedly take over. And being a Saturday night time race there’ll be an enormous buzz.”
The proposed structure of the 2013 F1 Grand Prix of America
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Aston Martin F1 staff principal Mike Krack echoed Coulthard’s views on a fourth US race, and he additionally believes that a New York Grand Prix could be a sexy addition to the F1 schedule.
When requested by Autosport concerning the feasibility of including a race in New York, he replied: “All of us get pleasure from coming right here [to America], I believe it will be good so long as you’re cautious to not oversaturate the market with the quantity of races.
“While you develop the calendar – with all these distances and sustainability discussions – you danger in a short time that you’ve got too many races in a single area too typically. However I’d love to do a fourth race right here, no downside.”
