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If you could make a new Grand Prix anywhere in the world...
If you could make a new grand prix (street circuit or track), where would you put it? And with what series?
I'd love to have a race here in Honolulu, Hawaii! Even if teams have to ship their cars here, they'd get tons of sunshine for the Aloha Grand Prix! I know that it's never going to happen, but that doesn't mean I can't dream of ALMS running on the streets here! I guess another one on my mind was a return to the streets of Washington D.C. Noise complaints killed the race, but that doesn't make the idea of it any less awesome! |
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I wouldn't. I'd kill off a couple of the ersatz $$$-driven new ones and make sure that France had a decent one. And that places like Spa continued to have one.
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Does my backyard count?
Seriously though, I'd love to see one in the streets of San Francisco. Can you imagine the elevation changes? |
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Isn't the term "Grand Prix" generally reserved to single seater racing, in particular to F1 (at least since 1981)?
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The term "Grand Prix" is used loosely in North America. For example, the ALMS race at Lime Rock is the "ALMS Northeast Grand Prix" and ALMS Mosport is the Grand Prix of Mosport.
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Brands Hatch - With F1, WEC, Super GT, DTM, BOSS GP & VLN on the bill.
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Mogadishu, Somalia with an FIA World Championship
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Ohhh yeah! That sounds like just the thing the ACO has been looking for! I smell a Bahrain-Somalia doubleheader in the works, but that could just be the smell of the tear gas speaking.
On a related note, FCP, did you ever receive your tickets to the Turks and Caicos Grand Prix? |
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According to Wikipedia, Turks and Caicos has 24 km of paved roads. I think the plan was to build a track from scratch, but I'm not sure. I don't think anyone really took the announcement seriously enough to bother thinking about it. Maybe FCP knows more about the details.
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