{"id":15182,"date":"2012-02-10T07:05:16","date_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=15182"},"modified":"2012-02-10T07:05:16","modified_gmt":"2012-02-10T12:05:16","slug":"work-racing-ahead-at-2012-us-gp-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/work-racing-ahead-at-2012-us-gp-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Work racing ahead at 2012 US GP site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>450 workers are pushing to enable Austin&#8217;s new Circuit of the Americas to be ready for the US grand prix later this year.<\/p>\n<p>After the Texas project&#8217;s earlier hiccups, the rooves and walls of the paddock and medical buildings, media centre and main grandstand are now taking shape.<\/p>\n<p>Another recent setback, however, was 2 inches of rain in the last ten days.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ve got a lot of dry weather we know is going to be coming, and are hoping to be gaining some time,&#8221; said a contractor spokesman.<\/p>\n<p>He revealed that the first layer of track asphalt will be poured around April &#8220;so we can get other elements, the tire barriers (and) the FIA fence going on&#8221;, he told the local Austin American Statesman.<\/p>\n<p>The report said construction is scheduled to be essentially completed two months before the November 18 race.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><em>\u00a9 RIF | GMM<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>450 workers are pushing to enable Austin&#8217;s new Circuit of the Americas to be ready for the US grand prix later this year. After the Texas project&#8217;s earlier hiccups, the rooves and walls of the paddock and medical buildings, media centre and main grandstand are now taking shape. Another recent setback, however, was 2 inches &#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":[3011,5262,5300,5340,929],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182"}],"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=15182"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15183,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15182\/revisions\/15183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15182"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15182"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15182"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}