As F1 continues to enjoy its boom in America, the USGP boss explains why he sees no threat from the new Miami and Las Vegas races 🇺🇸 Full story ⬇️
The event is celebrating its 10th anniversary with a sell-out crowd, the last tickets having gone some time ago. The weekend is expected to be an overwhelming success.
"We have more grandstands, we have more villages for people to go through, we also have more food stands, and we have more shade. We have more programming and more entertainment. This isn't the first time that COTA has had to turn people away, but tickets have never gone as quickly as they did this year.
So what of the new US events? COTA lost a lot of Mexican fans when the country landed its own race, but Epstein is adamant that Austin will continue to thrive, even with Vegas taking place at the same end of the season in 2023. "That's very different than the schedule that you'll see in Vegas, where there's a lot of Vegas, and then the pinnacle part of the F1 weekend is the race.
"What's so great is that it's picked up not with the traditional historical F1 audience from the last decade, but more with the F1 audience that probably was following it back in the 60s and 70s in Europe. And I think we're also seeing the young people just passionately exploring the sport, and engaging with it.