Ecclestone Wants New York GP By 2012

Formula 1 commercial rights holder Bernie Ecclestone wants to host a grand prix in New York by 2012.

Ecclestone believes the New York skyline would provide the perfect backdrop for a US Grand Prix: ‘I’m trying for 2012, opposite Manhattan in New Jersey with skyscrapers in the background. Fifteen minutes from the centre of New York to the circuit. [It would be] a wonder’ he said.

Nine circuits have previously staged an F1 race in the United States – the last one being Indianapolis in 2007.

The US has also hosted some races with makeshift tracks such as the one laid out in 1981 and 1982 in the car park of Caesar’s Palace hotel and casino in Las Vegas.

Ecclestone also wants to host a race in Italian capital Rome by 2012.