Glenn Freeman

But do you think being that forceful and being a guy who can go in and say, you need to change this, this and this straight away, was that almost underestimated in all of the things that made Kubica such a great force at this point in F1?

There was another significant piece of news for F1 ahead of the Turkish Grand Prix as Bernie Eccleston announced that F1 will be going back to America in 2012.

A new track built in Austin, Texas, the track we now know as the Circuit of the Americas.

This may be hard to believe for newer fans as we sit here with three U.S.

races on.

on the modern calendar, but the addition of Austin would bring back the United States Grand Prix for the first time since 2007 when Indianapolis last hosted it.

Bernie said this was a big deal because for the first time in the history of Formula One in the United States, a world-class facility will be purpose-built to host the event.

I've been looking for the right place and I hope now that we have a permanent home.

Now, both of you have been to the US Grand Prix at Austin countless times.

Ed, is it fair to say that in this case, Austin delivered what Bernie was hoping for?

Yeah.

And I guess the big thing that I do see the logic of is a permanent purpose built place because F1's existence in America up to that point have been nomadic in terms of circuits.

You're bouncing between street circuits and then the Indy road course.

So at least it had a proper F1 track to call it that in the States.

So F1 had an American race coming back, but it didn't have an American team, although it had come close for 2010 with the attempt by USF1 to join the grid.

One of the people involved in the late rescue bid for USF1 involved, do you remember this, YouTube co-founder Chad Hurley.

When I was doing research, I totally forgot about this guy.

It was a huge deal when that was announced.

It was, yeah.

So obviously there were still attempts to...