Carey considering multiple options for second U.S. F1 race

Formula 1 chairman Chase Carey has revealed there is more than one potential project in a number of American cities looking to host a grand prix.

Since Liberty Media's takeover of the sport was completed in January, Carey has announced a desire to take F1 to more destination cities, with a second race in the U.S. one of his top priorities. Having already listed locations that would be of interest for Liberty to try and secure a race, Carey told RACER there is interest from all of the main cities he has been using as examples.

"Traditionally I think I've usually said four: New York, Miami, L.A. and Vegas," Carey said. "They're illustrative. I don't think we want to be engaging these discussions in public. We have interest from each of those; we have interest from more than one in a number of them, but I think we're not going to publicly play people against each other.

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"We want to find the right platform with the right partners, the right opportunity, the right place and the right type of event that will capture peoples' imagination. I think the right way to go about that is to have these discussions. We want them to be real partners, we're not just looking to do a deal.

"We really want to have a partnership where we're engaged. These events are a face to the sport, and I think it's important we have an event that represents what makes this sport special. So we want to be thoughtful about it and find the the right partners in the right places and the right opportunity."

Carey hopes the amount of interest currently being received would allow more than one extra race in the U.S. to be added to the calendar in future.

"I think you start with one. I wouldn't want to do two [at the same time]. I think you learn from the one and take what you learn. But yeah, I think our hope would be that down the road it would be more than one.

"That's far enough down the road and I don't want everyone focusing on numbers. But if the sport can be what we think it can be then we hope there's more than one. But the focus right now is really on adding that second race to Austin and trying to make sure it is what we want it to be."