Mario Andretti: F1 may finally have found its US home in Austin | Paul Weaver
The theme of this years race is How the West was Formula One, and issues of finance, possible other venues and ambivalent Americans are being replaced by optimism A sport teetering on brink of crisis Marussia follow Caterham into administration
Formula One scarcely needs the macabre tones of Halloween as it arrives in Texas this week. F1 comes to the US deep in crisis with two teams already missing from the paddock and several more facing challenging immediate futures within a broken business model. America, however, the capital of the glass-half-full philosophy, is precisely the right place for Formula One to be right now.
The Circuit of the Americas, where the US Grand Prix will be raced on Sunday, is the 10th track to stage grand prix action Stateside. In the past, the sport has let itself down with its demands for a bigger share of the money pot. The Americans have been to blame, too, though, with a lack of investment and their insularity making them unwilling to embrace the most complex form of motor sport, when racing around an oval track is so much easier to understand.
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