2013 With temperatures in the 80 s and 90 s on F1 ...

2013 With temperatures in the 80 s and 90 s on F1 race day, there was no shade inside the Circuit of the Americas venue for most fans. Not even cover for the $350+ grandstand seats, which we understood were brought in temporarily for the F1. You could bring in a folding chair & a sealed bottle of water, but nothing else to eat or drink. No mist tents or drinking water fountains, & no buildings with air conditioning to duck into. $4.50 for a 20-oz bottle of water, with $10 corn dogs & beers. That was the cheapest option for lunch; the cost went up from there. No real restrooms in a building: only marginally maintained portable toilets with no wash stations or Purell. Yuck bring your own wet wipes/toilet paper. None of the vendors offered shade/buildings/tents/seating for customers either. Merchandising was out of trailers or open air stands without cover. Souvenirs were outrageous: a ball cap with a team logo was going for $60, shirts for $50-$200+. A program was $35. We grudgingly bought a couple of corn dogs & waters for lunch on race day, but they didn t sell us a darn thing else. It has an avaricious feel. Walkways between the grandstands we could see from the 11th turn were mostly pasture-land grass & dirt. The trek through the raceway was a hot, sweaty march for miles with overall insufficient shuttle service from golf carts. Parking shuttles (Parking is $60 per day) had long lines This venue seems unfinished, poorly planned, and is consumer unfriendly.