TREMAYNE: How F1 returned to America after a decade’s absence, 25 years ago at Indianapolis
F1 Hall of Fame journalist David Tremayne looks back at F1's return to the USA at the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway, back in the year 2000...
Twenty-five years ago, Formula 1 came back to the United States after almost a decade’s hiatus.
Following the inaugural F1 US Grand Prix at Sebring in 1959, and the wonderful and now much-missed Riverside in 1960, and thence Watkins Glen from 1961 to 1980, it had found a less permanent home in Phoenix from 1989 to 1991. But it wasn’t the same.
In the Arizonian event one year, a smart local writer opined: “If 35,000 people attended the race, a lot of them came disguised as empty seats.”
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