{"id":4199,"date":"2010-04-06T07:15:03","date_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:15:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4199"},"modified":"2010-04-06T07:15:03","modified_gmt":"2010-04-06T11:15:03","slug":"f1-to-shed-races-to-make-room-for-new-ones-ecclestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/f1-to-shed-races-to-make-room-for-new-ones-ecclestone\/","title":{"rendered":"F1 to shed races to make room for new ones &#8211; Ecclestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">F1 will shed some of its current races to make room for New York and Russia, according to Bernie Ecclestone.<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>The sport&#8217;s chief executive said recently he is pushing for a street race in New Jersey in 2012, and he has now said in an interview with Bloomberg that he also wants Russia to have a grand prix.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone, 79, said there are three potential sites for the race outside Manhattan, while Moscow or the resort city Sochi are the possible venues for Russia.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;ll make a decision in the next couple of months&#8221; on the locations, said the Briton.<\/p>\n<p>Ecclestone has often talked about expanding the calendar from its current 19 events to 20 or more, but he now says F1 will review its &#8220;traditional&#8221; European hosts, such as the two races in Spain.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re going to lose some races for sure, there are some races we can afford to lose without too much problem,&#8221; he said.\u00a0 &#8220;I&#8217;ve spoken to the countries to see what we can come up with.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #999999;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>F1 will shed some of its current races to make room for New York and Russia, according to Bernie Ecclestone.<\/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":[59,5262,5261,5340,1238,1237],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199"}],"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=4199"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4200,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4199\/revisions\/4200"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4199"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4199"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4199"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}