Among Formula 1's long-held dreams was being reimagined within times of Liberty Media's takeover of the sport last week - a London Grand Prix.
The brand new F1 owners' vision of "destination" races, featuring week-long events in major towns in the US and further afield, soon offered rise to the inescapable 'London question' in Pursuit Carey's first round of interviews as the sport's new chief executive.
"London is a great city, and there is without a doubt [you think of it] when you think where are the cities you want to be in, " Carey told PA. "We have Silverstone in the UK, but I recognise it is not in London, uk. inch
The start of new eras is usually the time for big thinking and the idea of bringing a Method 1 event to the UK's most populous city certainly falls into this category.
Fantasy or possible?
"We've been talking about London for 10-20 years and i also know that Chase and Freedom would like to go to all or any the big urban centers, " remarked British Rushing Drivers' Club president Derek Warwick to Sky Sports activities News HQ.
"But can you imagine holding a Grand Prix around Hyde Park? Never. "
The prospect of London either joining, or replacing, Silverstone on an F1 routine of the future remains a hard prospect to envisage, despite the clear ambition and clout of the sport's new owners.
In 2012, Santander whetted the appetite for what could be performed by commissioning architects Populous, the design firm behind Silverstone's Wing complex and Arsenal's Emirates Stadium, to come up with a SPECIAL design and feasibility analyze for a London contest.
The mock-up featured a track which passed attractions including Buckingham Palace and Trafalgar Square and made a lot of pleasure at the time - so much so that some reports would have you believe it depicted a full-blown proposal for a race.
Silverstone has made obvious of the problems turning an earnings on its F1 agreement, but the BRDC is now confident Liberty's appearance will help correct that financial imbalance by soothing the restrictions over certain areas of its offer.
Seventy miles south, and the stumbling blocks around any race on the streets of the Britian's most populous city are myriad.
Questions around facilities, safety, transport disruption and, most pressingly of all, finance remain as unanswered as ever before. Past F1 supremo Bernie Ecclestone, who had long mentioned taking the sport to the main city, delivered a masterclass in understatement in May possibly 2016 when ruminating about a London GP.
"There is a tiny technical concern - who is heading to pay for it? But besides that, I cannot see any dramas, very well he said.
However, one hurdle was eased in 2015 through the moving of the Deregulation Work, which includes a supply to make it easier for motorsport events to be held on open public roads.
Then-Prime Minister David Cameron said: "We have a great tradition of motorsport in the us and today we are getting British motor racing rear to British roads, to benefit local communities. This means more races, more events, more money getting into our country and more success for this incredible industry. inch
Yet taking the centre of Greater london, a city of 8m people and with a yearly tourist footfall of over 30m, to an incomplete standstill for the three times of a Grand Prix race weekend - plus the long lead-up time to build a street circuit - requires a sizable leap of imagination.
With ambitions of races in New You are able to and Las Vegas, F1's new owners are certainly thinking big. But 1 day bringing F1 to Birmingham remains a tough group of friends to square.
Will F1 use London as a shop window?
But while a full-blown London Grand Prix may remain a romantic notion, what's more feasible in the brief term are events in the capital to increase the British GP at Silverstone.
"With Silverstone, we want to help them promote the race, inches Carey told the Postal mail on Sunday. "When there is an NFL game in London, the retail outlets in Regent Street are packed with it.
"We might like to do that sort of thing with the British Grand Prix and also make the event broader, with the race at the centre of the full weekend show. inch
A hugely-successful Regent Street demonstration of F1 cars in 2005, attended by more than 250, 000 fans, certainly showcased the thing that was possible and, as Carey points out, the NFL makes their occurrence felt when workplace set ups its International sequences of games each autumn.
'NFL on Official Road' is presently a yearly occasion, with one of London's most famous extends of street moved toward a fan stop to amplify advancement around the landing of American Football in the UK.
Notwithstanding the probability of Freedom extricating the ties around territories in which Silverstone can straightforwardly boost its own particular benefits, London could yet have a part to play in supporting the achievement of England's set up GP scene