I read an article yesterday that said there are no hotel rooms available in Austin for November 16-18 during the race. Austin has 30K hotel rooms, San Antonio has 40K and Waco about 4K I believe. They said those other two cities will likely have bookings those days from F1 race visitors. They said the hotel room inquiries in Austin have outnumbered those that they had in Dallas when the Super Bowl was there
by 33 times. Homeaway Inc. also said their inquiries to their website have been 25 times higher than normal. I'm not exactly a "sports guy" - but I think we've grabbed onto a rocket here.
Here's the link.
http://www.statesman.com/business/hotel-rooms-scarce-on-f1-weekend-2407797.html