2013 United States Grand Prix

The 2013 United States Grand Prix (formally the 2013 Formula 1 United States Grand Prix) will be a Formula One motor race held at the Circuit of the Americas in Travis County], near Austin, Texas on November 17, 2013. The race, run over fifty-six laps, will be the penultimate round of the 2012 championship.

Background
After a troubled construction period that saw a stop-work order issued in November 2011, and the threat of the race being removed from the Formula One calendar altogether, construction laid the final layer of tarmac on September 21. The circuit passed its final pre-race inspection on September 25, allowing the race to go ahead as planned. By comparison, the most-recent additions to the Formula One calendar – the Korea International Circuit in South Korea and the Buddh International Circuit in India – were only completed in the days leading up to their inaugural races. The event was not the first Formula One Grand Prix in the state of Texas- the one-off Dallas Grand Prix was held in July 1984 and the event was exasperated by the extremely high temperatures of a Texas summer.