USGP at Phoenix

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In the year following the last Formula One race in Detroit, the choices for a new location for the United States Grand Prix in 1989 came down to the natural road course at Laguna Seca, California, and a downtown street course in Phoenix, Arizona.

Laguna Seca was thought to be too small for an F1 crowd and too remote, and, though many insisted that the Arizona sun would be too hot in June, Phoenix was chosen, with the course running through a massively redeveloped downtown area.

There would be a total of three GPs in Phoenix, and when Ayrton Senna scored his second consecutive Phoenix win (and fifth USGP win) in 1991, no one knew it would mark the end of 33 consecutive years of Formula One in America.

F1 would return at the start of the new millenium in a place familiar to race fans around the world, Indianapolis Motor Speedway.

Move your mouse over the years to see variations made to the course.