The announcement this week of plans for a New Jersey/New York GP in 2013 reminded me of the proposed 1983 New York Grand Prix. This event I seem to remember being on that seasons calendar but never actually going ahead. In a F1 season preview aired on the BBC in early 1983, there were actually snippets in that program of New Yorkers opinions to the race. One man, possibly a taxi cab driver, jokingly described everyday motoring in New York as like being in a Grand Prix.
The race was going to be at Flushing Meadows. There was a CART race there in later years, whether it was the same circuit the F1 cars would have used, I am not sure?
The New York race would have been the third US GP of the season, with the other two races being around the streets of Long Beach and Detroit. Whether it would have established itself as a regular event carried on as an F1 venue after these and other US circuits fell away we will never know.
The cancelled 1983 F1 race was replaced on the calender by the European GP at Brands Hatch, an event this author attended.
The race was going to be at Flushing Meadows. There was a CART race there in later years, whether it was the same circuit the F1 cars would have used, I am not sure?
The New York race would have been the third US GP of the season, with the other two races being around the streets of Long Beach and Detroit. Whether it would have established itself as a regular event carried on as an F1 venue after these and other US circuits fell away we will never know.
The cancelled 1983 F1 race was replaced on the calender by the European GP at Brands Hatch, an event this author attended.
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