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American Culture in the F1 Pits.(Column)(Column)
Byline: Matt Davis
It's not a big surprise to hear so frequently that the world looks upon the U.S. Grand Prix as an enduring joke ever since it left Watkins Glen in 1980. To some, it's right up there with next year's Bahrain GP. The racing we saw in Long Beach still receives some fond praise and Tony George's valiant ongoing attempt at Indy is... valiant. Indy is also probably now the only realistic shot we have at reestablishing a USGP tradition.
In the same vein (vain?), the last American F1 driver was Michael Andretti in 1993-a terrible season with McLaren-Ford in which Andretti showed absolutely no sign of wanting to commit to the rarefied atmosphere of international Formula car racing. He'd fly in for each race and fly back to Pennsylvania immediately afterward, making almost no effort to ingratiate himself with his fellow crew members. Which was fine by one Mika Hakkinen, who jumped into Andretti's seat before it even had a chance to cool, going on to do pretty well, I'd say.
Michael obviously wasn't watching when papa Mario won the F1 title with Team Lotus in 1978.
So what's preventing America and American drivers from getting into the Formula One scene? Go ahead and comment about how boring F1 is and that nobody passes anybody. Then understand that it's by far the No. 1 form of racing in the world from a public-appreciation standpoint. Every single racer on earth-at least every open-wheel racer I know-knows this and dreams of one day competing with that much space-age power on the greatest tracks around the world.
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Source: HighBeam Research, American Culture in the F1 Pits.(Column)(Column)