{"id":4967,"date":"2010-05-04T06:44:16","date_gmt":"2010-05-04T10:44:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/?p=4967"},"modified":"2010-05-04T06:44:16","modified_gmt":"2010-05-04T10:44:16","slug":"jersey-city-emerges-as-possible-new-york-gp-site","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/formula-1\/jersey-city-emerges-as-possible-new-york-gp-site\/","title":{"rendered":"Jersey City emerges as possible New York GP site"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, has emerged as the potential site for a United States grand prix between 2012 and 2016.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Local reports said talks for a race amid the backdrop of the New York skyline are underway, with a city spokeswoman confirming that &#8220;preliminary discussions&#8221; with F1 officials started three weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>The story emerged after documents obtained by opposition group Friends of Liberty State Park showed plans for a 3.6 mile track within the 1200 acre park providing &#8220;the least impact to city functions&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It is a marketing tool to bring people to Jersey City such as foot traffic and revenue to local businesses,&#8221; the spokeswoman is quoted as saying by hudsonreporter.com.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Jerramiah Healy issued a statement clarifying that Jersey City was approached by formula one.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Jersey City is one of several cities they (F1) are pursuing,&#8221; said mayor Healy.\u00a0 &#8220;There have been a few, preliminary conversations and this is very much in the exploratory phase.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;However, this may not be something that is in the best interest of Jersey City or Liberty State Park,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>F1 chief executive Bernie Ecclestone&#8217;s London office could not be reached for comment.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #c0c0c0;\">\u00a9 RIF|GMM<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Liberty State Park in Jersey City, New Jersey, has emerged as the potential site for a United States grand prix between 2012 and 2016.<\/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":[59,5262,5261,5340,1507,1506,1504,1237,1505],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967"}],"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=4967"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4968,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4967\/revisions\/4968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}