Here's some progress on the planned new theme park coming to the Circuit of the Americas in Austin, Texas.
COTAland today officially placed the final bolt marking the completion of track work on Circuit Breaker, its Vekoma Tilt Coaster.
COTAland has yet to announce its opening date, but the park also has been working on a new Gerstlauer Infinity Coaster, named Palindrome.
Located on the ground's of one of America's Formula 1 race tracks, COTAland would not be the first theme park located next to an F1 track. Ferrari World Abu Dhabi is located next to the Yas Marina Circuit on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi, home of the final F1 race of the year. Japan's Suzuka Circuit also has an adjacent theme park, and Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve is located just across the St. Lawrence River from Six Flags' La Ronde.
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It seems pretty clear they're not going to make their unofficial goal of opening by mid-October in time for the US Grand Prix. It's shocking to me that a coaster that started to go vertical last fall just now finished erection over 10 months later. It's especially shocking given that this was built in Austin, TX, a location that's not impacted by winter weather that can often slow attraction builds at more northern theme parks. Siren's Curse started construction 3 months later, and has been running for 2 months before crews put the final piece of track in place on this coaster. It makes you wonder what COTALand is doing and if a park that takes 10+ months to put together a coaster can be successful if it does ever open.
Between COTAland and the Mattel Adventure parks (not to mention that American Heartland debacle), my skepticism around new theme parks in the United States not owned by Universal (or Disney) is returning.
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https://www.nuerburgring.de/experience/at-the-ring/ringwerk?locale=en
Germany's Nurburgring also features an indoor themepark call Ring'Werk. Unfortunately Germany does not have a F1 Grand Prix anymore despite the involvement of Mercedes and soon, Audi.