Thanks for that offer! My guess is that you'll have to pay up on that!

I'm looking forward to the return of F1 to the US but I am dreadfully afraid that Austin will also present attendees with a texas sized prince tag. When I went to Indy for the F1 (numerous times), you could get the entire weekend done from Toronto for WAY less than $1000 per couple. That included: fuel, renting a car for the 20 hrs of "beater" type driving, 3 days of parking at IMS,mid-level tickets in the apex of turn 1 for both practice days and the race, set-up day on Thursday, 2 box lunches (beer, chicken, apples and sandwich), Thurs, Fri, Sat & Sun hotel in downtown Indy and all of your entertainment, food and dancing. A downtown rooftop dinner at night with the wife would be an additional $100 with wine.

In Montreal, you could barely get tickets and travel for $1000 per couple. And even then, you'd be treated like so many cattle. Whereas at IMS, you'd be encouraged to go anywhere you wanted to go as long as you did not interfere with anyone else's sightline.

It was an era that has been lost and unless there is a miracle, I cannot see how Austin will ever come close to approaching the "warmth and appea;" of what the locals call "India no Place".