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You're reading F1 Pushes To Restart U.S. Grand Prix For 2010, posted on Thursday, September 11th, 2008 at 2:20 pm in Racing News, on BrainBloggers at the Racing blog. More after the jump.

The United States Grand Prix first started off in Savannah, Georgia in 1908 and was known as the American Grand Prize. It was held with only a few exceptions up through 1917 until it was switched over to Milwaukee and then Claifornia.

It was then that the event disappeared from motor racing. It suddenly reappeared in 1958 at Riverside and it switched through many different venues before it finally landed at Watkins Glen. In 1975 it was once again switched to Dallas, Detroit, and Phoenix where it held the race from 1984 to 1991 before it disappeared once again.

It was then revived at a modified Indianapolis Motor Speedway in 2000 where it was held until it got cancelled again this year. It’s too late to get the U.S. Grand Prix back on the F1 schedule for the 2009 season, but some are pushing for its return in 2010. Surprisingly, however, it isn’t race organizers who are most interested. It’s the teams.

With an eye towards the American market, which is vital for many of automakers like Toyota, Honda, BMW and Mercedes that power and own the half the teams on the grid, team owners have been encouraging F1 organizer Bernie Ecclestone to broker a deal to bring the Formula One circus back to American shores. Although Indianapolis Motor Speedway executives say their circuit is still an ideal location, Ecclestone is reportedly keen on setting up a race in Las Vegas.

The teams and their sponsors do not care where in the U.S. they have the race as long as they move back to their home country. They feel that it will help their support and their participants.