New York City mayor offers Liberty a site for F1 race

But Maffei quickly downplayed the chances of adding a fourth American event alongside Austin, Miami and Las Vegas, saying that trying to put on a race in the Big Apple was a “fight we don’t need to have”.

Former F1 boss Bernie Ecclestone tried for years to get a race either in, or close, to New York. In 2011 a site at Port Imperial in New Jersey, with the city skyline as a backdrop, was earmarked by promoter Leo Hindery.

The race was included on the 2013 F1 calendar and…