{"id":2945,"date":"2010-03-06T14:49:47","date_gmt":"2010-03-06T19:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2010-03-06T14:49:47","modified_gmt":"2010-03-06T19:49:47","slug":"melbourne-admits-f1-race-relocation-possible","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/melbourne-admits-f1-race-relocation-possible\/","title":{"rendered":"Melbourne admits F1 race relocation possible"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">A relocation of Australia&#8217;s F1 race is supported not only by the FIA but also Bernie Ecclestone and potentially also the organising government.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>We reported last week that the FIA has commissioned a feasibility study into $200m private sector plans to host the grand prix near Avalon airport, a 45 minute drive from Albert Park.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Albert Park&#8217;s current contract runs through 2015, but the event is increasingly controversial due to spiralling running costs that are picked up by the taxpayer.<\/p>\n<p>A report to be published in Melbourne&#8217;s Sunday Herald Sun newspaper quotes Victorian state premier John Brumby as admitting the race could move away after 2015.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;One (choice) is to keep it at Albert Park, the second would be to terminate the grand prix or the third would be to move it somewhere (else),&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone was unavailable for comment, but a spokeswoman said the F1 chief executive supports any move to stage Australia&#8217;s race under floodlights.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A relocation of Australia&#8217;s F1 race is supported not only by the FIA but also Bernie Ecclestone and potentially also the organising government. \u00a0 We reported last week that the FIA has commissioned a feasibility study into $200m private sector plans to host the grand prix near Avalon airport, a 45 minute drive from Albert &#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":[5339,859,59,5262,5300],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945"}],"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=2945"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2947,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2945\/revisions\/2947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}