Circuit of the Americas Development Updates

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So Nov. 18th. Wow. What a great week. F1, UT vs A$M, Thanksgiving... man that would just rock. And is a great date for the US GP.

Hotels will be packed full for two straight weeks. lol. All those here for F1, all those in town for the game, then visiting loved ones for Thanksgiving weekend.

It will be a real test of our airport of the likes we have never seen. It will blow the doors off any other Thanksgiving travel days in the past, or SXSW.

http://www.statesman.com/news/local/...type=rss_local

Reports say new provisional 2012 F1 calendar moves Austin race from June to November
By John Maher
AMERICAN-STATESMAN STAFF
Updated: 12:16 a.m. Saturday, July 30, 2011
Published: 9:57 p.m. Friday, July 29, 2011

Austin's inaugural Formula One race in 2012 might be getting a new date one that could set up one of the biggest, wildest weeks in Austin's sporting history. Imagine the city's first Grand Prix, which could attract as many as 120,000 fans on a Sunday, followed a few days later by a Thanksgiving Day Texas-Texas A&M football game.

Reports have surfaced this week that F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone has presented F1 teams with a new provisional schedule for 2012 that puts the Austin race on Nov. 18.

The World Motorsport Council, an arm of the Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile, last month penciled in June 17, 2012, as the date of the first Austin race.

"That (November date) is provisional until approved by the WC," FIA official Nick Craw said in an email Friday.

Craw is president of the Automobile Competition Committee for the United States and Senate President of the FIA, the international governing body of motor sports of which the World Motor Sport Council is a powerful arm.

That council is expected to finalize F1's 2012 calendar in the fall.

One F1 team, Williams, declined to comment on whether a new calendar had been circulated. Three others did not respond to emails from the American-Statesman.

Ali Putnam, a spokeswoman for Austin's Circuit of the Americas, said circuit officials are moving forward as planned.

"The articles appearing are speculation — they are not an official source of information regarding the Formula 1 2012 race calendar," she said. "Until such time as we receive an official announcement regarding changes to the schedule, we are proceeding as planned toward the June 17, 2012 date."

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