COTA says that the FIA’s Charlie Whiting has declared the venue race ready after inspecting it on Tuesday.
Whiting travelled straight to Austin from the Singapore GP to conduct the 60-day inspection.
“Everything that I’ve seen so far has been absolutely first class, and the progress that’s been made since the last time that I was here is amazing,” Whiting was quoted as saying in a COTA statement.
“The guys have done an awesome job – it really is quite fantastic! It’s built to the highest quality, exactly as we expected, and I’ve got absolutely no complaints whatsoever.
“There are three or four corners that are very likely to see overtaking. If you look at Turn 1, you’ll see that the turns have been designed so that they’re extremely wide and the apex is very short. It’s a very modern approach to slow corners where we hope overtaking will take place. So I’m very confident it will work well.
“Turn 1 is awesome! It’s the only word I can think of to describe it, and I think drivers and teams coming here for the first time will say the same thing.”
Adam Cooper F1 
Dude, it’s awesome! And Charlie was even wearing cowboy jeans!
Couldn’t agree more…
I was out there yesterday eating at Wild Bubba’s and drove by the track. It really looks like eveything is coming together nicely. Y’all come on down to Austin this November and see a really goos track and some really good racing.
Wild Bubba? I think it’s more than enough to bring everyone to Austin! We have a bit of an American invasion here in Portugal, I’m starting to get into American culture now…