From Indianapolis banking to Long Beach streets and a Caesars Palace car park, F1's American adventures have produced some of the sport's wildest frames.
Formula 1 has never done things quietly in the United States. A fresh photo gallery looks back at the sport's American chapters, a story of famous speedways, makeshift street circuits and some very unlikely venues.
The tale starts with the heavyweights of the American calendar. Indianapolis carries huge history, first through the Indy 500 years and later through the modern-era grand prix on its famous oval-infield layout. Watkins Glen, tucked away in upstate New York, became the classic road-racing home of the US Grand Prix for years, a fast, flowing track that drivers and fans remember with real affection.
Then came the street-racing experiments. Long Beach brought F1 to the California coast, with cars threading past palm trees and concrete walls. Dallas turned up the heat, literally, with a scorching, rough-edged street event that tested drivers and machinery to the limit. And in Las Vegas, the Caesars Palace car park hosted a grand prix of its own, proof that F1 was willing to go wherever the spectacle was.
Taken together, the images show how much the sport's US story has changed, from gritty temporary circuits to the glitzy, high-production races of today. Every era has left its mark on the grid's long and often chaotic relationship with America, and this gallery captures it well.
