{"id":3321,"date":"2010-03-16T07:35:55","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:35:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=3321"},"modified":"2010-03-16T07:23:22","modified_gmt":"2010-03-16T11:23:22","slug":"indianapolis-now-plays-down-us-gp-return-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/indianapolis-now-plays-down-us-gp-return-reports\/","title":{"rendered":"Indianapolis now plays down US GP return reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">Another spokesman for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has now played down claims talks are taking place to reinstate a US grand prix at the famous venue.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>After Bernie Ecclestone said in Bahrain that a return to Indianapolis is possible, a circuit spokesman told the Indianapolis Business Journal: &#8220;We continue to have dialogue with formula one, and we&#8217;ve long maintained we&#8217;re interested in hosting their events.&#8221;<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But he admitted that an event in 2011 &#8220;would be a long shot&#8221;, and a second spokesman has now told the Indy Star newspaper that specific talks are not currently taking place.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In terms of negotiations, nothing is happening at this time,&#8221; said Eric Powell.<\/p>\n<p>He said &#8220;dialogue&#8221; with F1 officials has been ongoing since the last US GP in 2007.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We would love to have formula one in Indianapolis,&#8221; added the spokesman.\u00a0 &#8220;We feel this is the best venue for formula once in the United States.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Another spokesman for the Indianapolis Motor Speedway has now played down claims talks are taking place to reinstate a US grand prix at the famous venue. \u00a0 After Bernie Ecclestone said in Bahrain that a return to Indianapolis is possible, a circuit spokesman told the Indianapolis Business Journal: &#8220;We continue to have dialogue with formula &#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":[59,5262,942,930,928],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321"}],"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=3321"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3323,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3321\/revisions\/3323"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}