IF YOU EVER FIND YOURSELF GETTING off a ferry at Weehawken Port Imperial in New Jersey, you might notice a long, low parking garage directly opposite you. On the ground floor are shops below the parking levels, but these were intended to become pit garages to host the Grand Prix of America and return Formula 1 to the New York area.
It was over a decade ago that plans were announced but they never came to fruition, in what has been a familiar tale for F1 in the United States. Plenty of potential, numerous false starts, and difficulties finding a permanent home.
Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas appears to have addressed the last of those three points at
