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- Formula 1 is at Austin, Texas this weekend for the US Grand Prix, a fixture that has been a "firm favourite on the calendar" since its inaugural 2012 race
- Austin is one of three current US F1 venues, alongside Miami (May) and Las Vegas (November night race)
- Netflix's Drive to Survive series is credited by the source with helping fuel F1's growing popularity in the United States in recent years
- F1's US history spans 11 cities and towns — including Indianapolis, Watkins Glen, Long Beach, Dallas, and the Caesars Palace car park in Las Vegas
- The US–F1 relationship has been "mixed," the source notes, with some races "very successful and fondly remembered" and others less so
Why it matters: F1's calendar lists three US grands prix per year — Austin, Miami, and Las Vegas — where as recently as 2012 there was just one (Austin). The source attributes that domestic expansion partly to Netflix's Drive to Survive, while the photo retrospective flags how many of the sport's earliest American experiments (Caesars Palace car park, Dallas streets) were commercial failures.
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