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Uncle Sam is paying more and more attention to global motorsport, particularly the top-flight of singleseaters. While online streaming services might be responsible for a significant part of that, three grands prix in the country in 2023 means that Formula 1 will have not had such representation in the States since 1982.

The driver market is starting to wake up too. Williams driver Logan Sargeant will be the first full-time American incumbent of a grand prix ride in 2023 since 2006, when Scott Speed lined up with the Toro Rosso team (now AlphaTauri).

Here, we pick out 10 of the best from the land of opportunity, and we’d love for you to head over to our website and let us know your vote for who is best. The details of how to get involved are on this page in the sidebar. The results will be printed at the beginning of February, so get thinking.

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1 AJ Foyt

There isn’t anyone else who has taken part in three World championship grands prix at the Brickyard between 1958 and 1960 and also taken part in his last Indy 500 an incredible 34 years later, but AJ Foyt has.

The now 87-year-old quickly adopted a hard-as-nails driving style, which was maybe

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