Talking completely to Autosport at a IWC Schaffhausen basketball occasion forward of the Miami Grand Prix – which featured seven-time F1 champion Lewis Hamilton and Hollywood film stars James Marsden and Simu Liu – Coulthard stated that the never-raced avenue monitor venue in Weehawken, New Jersey, might full F1’s roster of US races.

Coulthard drove elements of the Hermann Tilke-designed 3.2-mile Port Imperial structure, which used streets overlooking the Hudson River, in a Pink Bull RB7 present automotive in 2012. The occasion, below the ‘Grand Prix of America’ banner, was included within the 2013 F1 calendar till a contractual dispute ended the undertaking.

He says the spectacular location could be the “good place” for F1 to go subsequent in america, because the monitor’s elevation change of 150 toes would have been one of many biggest on the calendar.

“We tried to get a race in New York a number of years in the past at Weehawken,” stated Coulthard. “I keep in mind working in one of many Pink Bull present vehicles. I drove a part of the part of monitor within the F1 automotive and it was unbelievable.

“Reverse Manhattan, there was a piece that made Eau Rouge at Spa appear to be children’ stuff! In the event that they ever had been capable of reignite that plan proper there, I believe that will be the right place.”

Christian Epp, Director Circuit of Americas Tilke GmbH with David Coulthard

Photograph by: Andre Vor / Sutton Pictures

Coulthard believes there stays room for yet another occasion in america, even with Las Vegas becoming a member of Austin and Miami on the calendar in 2023.

“I believe we are able to go to 4 races right here in future, when you think about the land mass,” he added. “And that’s the utopian dream – to interrupt America.

“They’ll all have their very own flavour, they need to. State to state in America could be very totally different, so race to race – every occasion has to mirror that.

“Austin is what we’re used to – a correct monitor, so we flip up and go racing. Miami is a little bit of a hybrid monitor, and Vegas is a playground for adults. Being in a metropolis, moderately than at a venue, the occasion will undoubtedly take over. And being a Saturday night time race there’ll be a giant buzz.”

The proposed structure of the 2013 F1 Grand Prix of America

Photograph by: Andre Vor / Sutton Pictures

Aston Martin F1 staff principal Mike Krack echoed Coulthard’s views on a fourth US race, and he additionally believes {that a} New York Grand Prix could be a horny addition to the F1 schedule.

When requested by Autosport in regards to the feasibility of including a race in New York, he replied: “All of us take pleasure in coming right here [to America], I believe it will be good so long as you’re cautious to not oversaturate the market with the quantity of races.

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“Once you develop the calendar – with all these distances and sustainability discussions – you threat in a short time that you’ve got too many races in a single area too usually. However I’d love to do a fourth race right here, no downside.”