{"id":13268,"date":"2011-07-30T09:38:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-30T13:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=13268"},"modified":"2011-07-30T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2011-07-30T13:38:10","slug":"race-delay-is-big-help-for-2012-us-gp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/race-delay-is-big-help-for-2012-us-gp\/","title":{"rendered":"Race delay is big help for 2012 US GP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A delayed US grand prix next year could be a sigh of relief for more than one reason.<\/p>\n<p>Officially, it is believed the organisers requested the date change from June to November to avoid Austin&#8217;s hot summer.<\/p>\n<p>But there might be more to it, amid speculation a deadline for the first race payment to Bernie Ecclestone will shortly pass while the Texas comptroller continues to review the application for state funding.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re aware of a possible date change and as part of our review we will take in any new information that may affect the timeline for disbursement under Major Events Trust Fund Statute,&#8221; a spokeswoman for the comptroller told the Austin American Statesman.<\/p>\n<p>Another issue is that, with less than a year to go until the US GP&#8217;s original 2012 race date, actual construction of the circuit buildings has not yet begun.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A great deal of dirt has been moved,&#8221; FIA official Nick Craw said after a visit to the site last month.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A delayed US grand prix next year could be a sigh of relief for more than one reason. Officially, it is believed the organisers requested the date change from June to November to avoid Austin&#8217;s hot summer. But there might be more to it, amid speculation a deadline for the first race payment to Bernie &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[3],"tags":[440,59,5262,5300,5340,2591,929],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13268"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13269,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13268\/revisions\/13269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13268"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13268"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13268"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}