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The United States Grand Prix, since its inception in 1959, has been raced on 6 different tracks: Sebring (1959-1962), Watkins Glen (1963-1975), Road Atlanta (1976-1979), Road America (1980-1999), Indianapolis (2000-2009, 2013-), and Sonoma (2010-2012). The race has always been a favorite for fans on the F1 calendar and attracts some of the biggest crowds in F1 history; with the 2000 race at Indianapolis having 250,000 fans in attendance. Frenchman Alain Prost has won the United States Grand Prix the most times, with 7, all of them coming at Road America.


Famous moments:

2014: After leading most of the race in his Williams, 2008 winner Filipe Massa suffered a tyre puncture 4 laps from the finish, giving Sebastian Vettel the win.

2012: In the last race on the Sonoma circuit, Lewis Hamilton held off a charging Michael Schumacher and Fernando Alonso to win by 0.378 seconds.

2007: In a dramatic race which included Kimi Raikonnen flying into the catchfence at the last turn and Honda's Jenson Button capturing a surprise podium, Fernando Alonso took home his first USGP victory.

2004: Jenson Button's BAR and Ralf Schumacher's BMW both retired from the lead, giving the win to Schumacher's team mate, Juan Montoya, becoming the first driver to win both the Indy 500 and the United States Grand Prix at Indianapolis.

2000: After word was spread that the USGP would not be held at Road America after 1999, many tracks were considered to be new hosts of the event, including Daytona, Sonoma, Long Beach, Laguna Seca, Portland, and St. Petersburg. But in the end, the Grand Prix was headed to the famous Indianapolis Motor Speedway. In an exciting and chaotic race, a five-lap duel between David Coulthard and Michael Schumacher ended with Schumacher running wide in the first corner on the last lap, and David Coulthard securing the win.

1999: The last race at Road America proved to be one for the ages, with torrential rain downpouring all throughout the Grand Prix. Pole-sitter Damon Hill's Jordan retired on lap 4 after crashing in the Kink. Eddie Irvine's Ferrari then crashed out of the lead on lap 16 after trying to pass the lapped car of Marc Gene's Minardi. Benneton driver Alex Wurz then gained the lead as Michael Schumacher, Mika Hakkinen, Jean Alesi and David Coulthard all retired. Wurz then got in the grass, giving the lead to Stewart's Johnny Herbert, who later won with Wurz second and Heinz-Harald Frentzen's Jordan securing third.

1998: In a race that saw many cars get taken out at the first turn on lap one, including Oliver Panis' Prost getting airborne, and only 6 cars finishing, Williams' Heinz-Harald Fretzen held off Jean Alesi's Sauber and Jos Verstappen's Stewart to take his first F1 win.

1997: Damon Hill's Arrows took a run-away victory with teammate Pedro Diniz capturing second, with Michael Schumacher and Jacques Villeneuve colliding on the last corner, putting them both out of the points.

1990: In a race lead by the Leyton House of Ivan Cappelli, Alain Prost passed Cappelli with two laps to go to take his 6th victory in the United States Grand Prix.

1986: In a wet-dry race, McLaren's Keke Rosberg took his last F1 win after Aryton Senna's Lotus and Alain Prost's McLaren collided on the first turn of the last lap being the predecessor of the famous rivalry when teammates at McLaren.

1981: Gilles Villeneuve overtook Nelson Piquet at the line, becoming one of the closest finishes in Formula One history.

1978: In a race that included Derek Daly's Ensign catching air and crashing in the catchfence, Nika Lauda's Brabham engine blew with 6 laps to go, with Gilles Villeneuve capturing his maiden victory.

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AndrewH

This was from a rather dark TLIA I had never got around to starting - basically, the POD was with Dick Gephardt entering the 1988 Primaries and managing to beat Bush and get two terms in the White House, which means no NAFTA, no Gulf War (which spirals out of control in dramatic fashion) and a less messy Balkans. Dick (Cheney) succeeds him thanks to hawkish rhetoric against Iran, who stepped in as the "mediator" in the Iraqi conflict and has asserted dominance in the region. This leads to a bloody war not unlike OTL Iraq War, but its a little less bloody, and the Administration can legitimately claim success with the restoration of Saddam Hussein in 2001.

However this undercut when the Daily Inquirer reports that Secretary of Education Dennis Hastert has been grooming and molesting minors while in office, and everything snowballs from there. Cheney and most of the Administration deny any knowledge and sack Hastert and a few underlings in a show of force, but the damage has been done. In 2004, socialist (yeah, you read that right) Governor Paul Soglin takes the White House in dramatic fashion, but ends up seeing his agenda watered-down and killed off by a moderate Democratic Congress, but hey, Universal Healthcare is passed and public housing initiatives begin in major cities, and we got a liberal majority on the Court! George Allen succeeds Soglin as most everybody is put off by a literal socialist in the White House and most people are willing to forget the troubles of the Cheney days in exchange for prosperity - Allen mostly delivers on that, with young politico Andrew Breitbart leading the Administration's ideological push from within the Cabinet. However, after it comes to light that federal funds were being used to cover-up for Hastert and other various crimes and misdemeanors, and that many leading figures on the right have been implicated in various offences related to sexual assault, Allen goes down with the ship.

Jindal is left with the unenviable job of trying to clean up the mess Allen, Soglin and Cheney started, but his attempts at meaningful legislation is stopped by a strong opposition in Congress, and his poll numbers slip and fall every day. In 2012, he loses in a landslide to D.C. Mayor Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, his promise of finishing the work Soglin and Gepthardt started resonating with millions across the nation.

Eh, I might need to workshop that ending but I might come back to this someday - it still is really intriguing to me plot-wise.

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Peebs

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jonnguy2016 said:
Why did President Cheney choose him?
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Pretty much only for the novelty of both the President and Vice President being named Dick Cheney. :p
As for how he gets there, Richard P. beats Gary Johnson in the Republican primary for Governor of New Mexico in 1994 (which was quite close) and serves two terms.
 
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Pokemon Master said:
How did Cheney become Cuomo's VP?
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As I said in the current pol thread, shenanigans in the 2000 election. Jeb! was briefly the President-elect in 2000, but an attempt on his life left him in a coma until late 2002 or so, resulting in a faithless elector selecting Governor John Engler to replace Jeb! (who had 270 EVs prior to the incident). Engler declines, forcing the House to re-elect Cuomo. Since Engler's elector still chose Cheney for Vice President, the Senate didn't have to elect him.
 
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Starting off my American parliament series, here's the latest general election in my district. If anyone wants to see their district results, let me know!

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And the incumbent Prime Minister, John Kasich. Kasich succeeded Obama in 2015 after the Liberals lost the election. The Conservative Party increased the size of their majority in the 2018 snap election. Kasich's approval rating is around 70% as the economy is doing great and the US is not at war (yet...)
 
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