Jan.30 (GMM) A Chicago politician has thrown chilly water on excited hypothesis concerning the potential for a fourth System 1 race in America.
Media retailers have seen that F1’s proprietor, Liberty Media, has trademarked a number of names not too long ago, together with ‘System 1 Chicago Grand Prix’.
Final 12 months, Nascar raced for the primary time on the brand new Chicago Road Course within the metropolis’s CBD, centring across the massive city Grant Park within the Loop space.
Chicago’s 2nd Ward Alderman Brian Hopkins, nevertheless, while admitting that talks with F1 a few potential Chicago GP might have been held, poured chilly water on the rumours.
“I’m advised that F1 sometimes requires a 10-year minimal deal,” he advised the Chicago Solar-Occasions newspaper. “And that seems to be non-negotiable.
“The dialog didn’t get a lot previous that,” Hopkins declared.
Public surveys after the primary Nascar race, in the meantime, confirmed that enthusiasm for the occasion was muted. One other Alderman, Brendon Reilly, subsequently thinks including F1 to the roster is unlikely.
“It must be one or the opposite,” he stated.
Reilly additionally defined: “What we did with Nascar, welding manhole covers and smoothing over potholes and calling it a observe – that doesn’t work with F1. Extra difficult, thus larger price ticket.”
