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'US needs more races, not team'

F1 needs more races in the United States and not just a team if it is to crack the American market, according to IndyCar's Ryan Hunter-Reay. The 2012 IndyCar champion and 2014 Indy 500 winner believes Haas's arrival on the F1 grid this year will not help increase the fan base in the US, particularly when the start-up team also have a factory in Banbury in the UK. Currently only one grand prix is held in the United States and even its future is rumoured to be under threat after a reduction in government funding for the Circuit of the Americas. "It is so hard to crack the sporting market in the United States because it is so saturated. We have football, basketball, baseball - there are...
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