 Complete the following phrase:  With the east coast Watkins Glen track on the downslope after two fatalities in successive years and a politically charged 1975 event, the USGP West was created for the 1976 season on a tight circuit made up of city streets in Long Beach, California, located in the Los Angeles metropolitan area on the west coast. A Formula 5000 race was held there in 1975, and the US was just the second country after Italy in 1957 to host two Championship F1 events in the same season. Southern California had seen a championship Formula One race before; the 