F1 Circuits: USA

AUSTIN, TEXAS

The 2012-2021 United States Grand Prix will be held at a circuit soon to be built southeast of Austin, Texas near the community of Elroy.

The proposed location of the Austin F1 Circuit.On 25 May 2010, Austin, Texas was awarded the race on a ten-year contract, as Mr Ecclestone and event promoter Full Throttle Productions agreed to a deal beginning in 2012. The event will be held on a purpose-built new track. The race promoter confirmed that over eight hundred acres to the east of the city had been purchased, and that Hermann Tilke, Formula One's resident circuit design expert, has been commissioned to design the layout and infrastructure. In July 2010, promoter Tavo Hellmund promised that the circuit would be one of the "most challenging and spectacular in the world" and that it would include a selection of corner sequences inspired by "the very best circuits" in the world.

In an episode of Speed TV's Wind Tunnel program broadcast on August 22, 2010, Hellmund revealed that the circuit would be 3.2 miles (5.1 kilometres) long and would be made up of more than twenty turns with an elevation change of 130 to 140 feet (39.6 to 42.6 metres), meaning the circuit will have the third greatest change in elevation on the calendar after Spa and Suzuka.

The final plan of the circuit was released on September 1, 2010, showing a circuit that was built after the European tradition of sculpting the circuit to the contours of the land. Several circuits provided inspiration for the design, with homages to Silverstone, Hockenheim and Istanbul Park clearly visible in the corners.

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