Where else in the US does the spectacle of an F1 race fit in better? What other city would be willing to shut down their day-to-day business for a street race? Certainly not San Francisco or New York City. Spectacle *is* Las Vegas' day-to-day business.

Plus, the city is already a massive tourist destination, so it's got a big airport, tons of hotels, and a local population that understands putting up with something like a race for the income of the city. Vegas would be able to take the event in stride. Vegas is also within driving distance of Los Angeles, and cheap to get to from the entire west coast, not to mention all the affordable direct flights from everywhere else in the US since so many people already vacation there.

Frankly, I can't think of a better place to hold a new US Grand Prix. Everywhere else will just make F1 look like just another race. I get the feeling Bernie wants F1 in the US to be something special and spectacular.

The cars will most likely be running laps anywhere from 1:04 to 1:07 at time trial levels depending on car layout and regulations for 2010, which we know can change at any time.

With this in mind, although it is relatively a short track for F1 to race on, and I would like to see a track layout similar to Road America, I believe the best possible option is Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca…

But let's be realistic. Of these, only Miller Motorsports Park is currently certified by the FIA (*and possibly NJ Motorsports Park?). The rest would have to invest millions and millions of dollars to retrofit the tracks, as Indianapolis did in the late 90s to bring them up to modern standards both in terms of safety and facilities. None of these tracks have the money to do so. And in today's economy, nobody would be willing to fund it. And here in the Western World, we're not going to allow our tax dollars to be spent for renovating or building a road course to host an event that isn't even a mainstream sport in the United States. NASCAR was pushing to have an oval motorsports park built in the NY area for years, and they were unable to push the idea through with mainly private funding. And as fabulous as MMP is, it's in the middle of nowhere (sorry SLC residents). But it's the same problem for nearly all of these tracks. You're never going to get 125,000 people to come to Elkhart Lake.

The only real choices are:
- Back to Indianapolis. A capable facility with a rich heritage pre-dating the modern F1 era. But a relatively boring road course and a city that never fully accepted or appreciated F1 the way say a Montreal did. Daytona is another question mark as they have a well used road course but road courses inside ovals just don't seem to work. There is no real flow to the track as it's limited by the landscape.
- Organize a temporary street course in a major city such as New York, San Francisco, Miami, Chicago or Las Vegas. Eccelstone was already pushing for this in Vegas years ago. But I can only assume there just wasn't much interest from the city administration. And with most major cities in a financial crunch, they're not going to bankroll the huge expense to run a race, let alone the ridiculous CVC sanctioning fees.