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Originally Posted by Red Bread
Agreed, but Indy's F1 track sucked and attendance dropped each year, even before TireGate. The Austin track is in the middle of nowhere (think Watkins Glen) doesn't have an easy way to get there, not even secondary roads, much less highways, and there are no hotels near the track. Indy was right in the middle of town, so it was possible for folks to not need a car for the race weekend.
I agree that people will come, but once NY/NJ begins, most folks would pick the race with better weather, earlier in the season, nicer accommodations, better transit to and from, etc. Once they announced NY, Austin was dead and it should have never been announced in the first place, typical Bernie BS.
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Ummm....The Austin track is less than 10 miles from the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. And less than 15 miles from the center of downtown Austin. It is definitely not in the middle of no where, unless we have different definitions for that statement.
Also Texas has three of the top ten most poplulated cities in the US. All within easy driving distance of the track location.